A PRAYER FOR FIDELITY TO WORK

The patron saint of work is Saint Joseph.

Have you every thought about the work you do? Have you prayed the Saint Joseph the Worker prayer?  Try it, you might begin to feel better about the work you are involved in . . .When you feel tired or bored about your work offer your works and sacrifices, time and energy spent for the forgiveness of your sins for the conversion of sinners and for the forgotten Souls in Purgatory.

"A Prayer for Fidelity to Work," is a prayer during those times that you find it hard to convince yourself to do the work that you need to do. Seeing a spiritual purpose in that work can help. This prayer to St. Joseph, patron of workers, helps you to call to mind that all of your labor is part of your struggle on the road to heaven.

Here is the prayer to Saint Joseph the Worker composed by Pope St. Pius X:

O Glorious Saint Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work in a spirit of penance for the expiation of my many sins; to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations; to work with thankfulness and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation, and patience, never shrinking from weariness and trials; to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, keeping unceasingly before my eyes death and the account that I must give of time lost, talents unused, good omitted, and vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thy example, O Patriarch, Saint Joseph. Such shall be my watch-word in life and in death. Amen.