Prayer To Saint Joseph

Bishop John Keating, leader of the Arlington diocese of Northern Virginia, recently passed from this life to an everlasting life with our Lord Jesus Christ. For our departed bishop, and for the deliverance of a new shepherd that will lead us, we pray:  

HOLY JOSEPH   

To whom the Father entrusted His own precious Son. Look with love upon Christ's Bride -- The Church you have been chosen to protect. Bless with your prayers our bishop, John. That he may find the consummation of all his hopes, and greet him as he enters Paradise.   

Plead too we beg, for the flock he leaves behind. Through your intercession may God grant us a "Joseph" of our own -- a shepherd chaste and steady, prudent, just and true. May his devotion to Mary equal your own. And may the holy zeal that anointed the Apostles on the Day of Pentecost descend and rest upon him as he spends himself for his priests and his people.   

We ask this in the holy name of Jesus, the "Little one" you fathered as your own. Amen.  
  

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