Saint Joseph the Worker

Feast Day of Saint Joseph the Worker
May 1

Glorious Saint Joseph, 
You are the patron of all who work. Obtain for me, please,
the grace to work conscientiously and to put devotion to duty 
before my selfish inclinations. 
Grant that I may work in orderliness, peace, moderation, and patience
without shrinking from weariness and difficulties.
I offer my fatigue and perplexities as reparation for sin.
I shall work, above all, with a pure intention and with detachment from self, 
having always before me the hour of death and the accounting
which I must then render of time ill-spent, of talents unemployed,
of good not done, and of empty pride in success,
which is so fatal to the work of God.
Saint Joseph, please pray for us.
​Amen.