The faithful who pray this Litany, under the usual conditions, receive a partial indulgence. This is one of the 6 Litanies approved for public recitation A litany is a well-known and much appreciated form of responsive petition, used in public liturgical services, and in private devotions, for common necessities of the Church, or in calamities - to implore God's aid or to appease His just wrath.

 

Litaniae Sancti Ioseph

Kyrie, eleison. (Christe, eleison.)
Kyrie, eleison.(Christe, exaudi nos.)
Christe, audi nos. (miserere nobis.)

Pater de caelis, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Spiritus Sancte Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, (miserere nobis.)

Response: ora pro nobis

Sancta Maria,

Sancte Ioseph,
Proles David inclyta,
Lumen Patriarcharum,
Dei Genetricis Sponse,
Custos pudice Virginis,
Filii Dei nutricie,
Christi defensor sedule,
Almae Familiae praeses,
Ioseph iustissime,
Ioseph castissime,
Ioseph prudentissime,
Ioseph fortissime,
Ioseph oboedientissime,
Ioseph fidelissime,
Speculum patientiae,
Amator paupertatis,
Exemplar opificum,
Domesticae vitae decus,
Custos virginum,
Familiarum columen,
Solatium miserorum,
Spes aegrotantium,
Patrone morientium,
Terror daemonum,
Protector sanctae Ecclesiae,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (parce nobis, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (exaudi nobis, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (miserere nobis.)

Constituit eum dominum domus suae. (Et principem omnis possessionis suae.)

Oremus. Deus, qui in ineffabili providentia beatum Ioseph sanctissimae Genetricis tuae Sponsum eligere dignatus es, praesta, quaesumus, ut quem protectorem veneramur in terris, intercessorem habere mereamur in caelis: Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. (Amen.)