DBM Special Series: Consecration to St. Joseph Day 32 - a podcast by Dry Bones Ministries

We continue our journey by today looking at Joseph as the Protector of the Holy Church. We will also continue our recitation of St. Peter Julian Eymard’s Act of Consecration Prayer to prepare us to say it most fully on the consecration day—only one day away. 

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St. Peter Julian Eymard's Act of Consecration:

I consecrate myself to you, good Saint Joseph, as my spiritual father; I choose you to rule my soul and to teach me the interior life, the life hidden away with Jesus, Mary, and yourself.

Above all, I want to imitate the humble silence with which you shrouded Jesus, Mary, and yourself, and even your own happiness. For me everything lies in that—total abnegation like our Lord in His hidden life, making the world forget me by my silence and my practice of the common life.

I consecrate myself to you as my guide and model in all my duties so that I may learn to fulfill them with meekness and humility: with meekness toward my brethren, my neighbor, and all with whom I come in contact; with humility toward myself and simplicity before God.

I choose you, good Saint, as my counselor, my confidant, my protector in all my difficulties and trials. I do ask to be spared crosses and sufferings, but only from self-love which might vitiate their value by making me vain over them.

I shall honor and love and serve you with Mary, my mother; never shall I separate her name from yours in my love.

Gladly would I be like you, Saint Joseph, a poor carpenter, unknown and despised, food for the roots of the tree, the Master’s gardener who never leaves the garden, who knows nothing but his plants, who loves only his flowers and sees only their fruits, and dies in the corner of his hut in the arms of Jesus and Mary. We do not know the place of your burial, so we cannot honor your remains. You leave behind you only your mantle of poverty and humility.

O Jesus, give me Joseph for a father as you have given me Mary as a Mother. Fill me with devotion, confidence, and filial love. Listen to my prayer, please. I know that you will. Already I feel more devout, more full of hope and confidence in good Saint Joseph, your foster father and my adopted father. Amen.

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