{"id":2952,"date":"2014-05-01T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2014-05-01T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:30:42","slug":"j-m-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/j-m-j\/","title":{"rendered":"+J.M.J.+"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mary’s month of May begins with a day for her husband. Today, celebrated around the world as “International Workers’ Day” is the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker.<\/p>\n

T<\/span>here’s poetry to the fact that the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin begins by putting the focus on her husband, and therefore on their family life. Imagine the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph working together, playing together, praying together. There’s our model.<\/p>\n

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O Glorious Saint Joseph,
\nmodel of all those who are devoted to labor,
\nobtain for me the grace to work conscientiously,
\nputting the call of duty above my natural inclinations,
\nto work with gratitude and joy,
\nin a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins,
\nconsidering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor
\nthe gifts received from God,
\nto work with order, peace, moderation and patience,
\nwithout ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties,
\nto work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self,
\nhaving always death before my eyes and the account that I must render
\nof time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted,
\nof vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.<\/p>\n

All for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thine example, O Patriarch, Saint Joseph.
\nSuch shall be my watch-word in life and in death.<\/p>\n

(Prayer to Saint Joseph composed by Pope Saint Pius X)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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