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We now enter the period of Ordinary time in the Church’s Year as we move steadily towards the next great season of Lent.  Pope Francis has also asked us to make this year a special time of reflection on St Joseph.  This special year of focus began on 8th December 2020 and will run until the 8th December 2021.  St Joseph, of course protected both Mary and the child Jesus and there is much for us to reflect on during this year.  We include the official prayer to St Joseph here:

To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our afflictions, and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse, we confidently invoke your patronage also.

Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.

O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness.

As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.

Sr Colette Cronin, Institute Leader

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