Prayer to St. Joseph for a Job: St. Joseph the Worker Prayer for Work and Employment

St. Joseph, you worked hard to provide for Jesus and Mary.
You know what it is to need work and to worry about tomorrow.
Help me to find a good job where I can support my family, use my gifts and serve others. Amen.

Glorious St. 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 inclinations;
to work with gratitude 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, without ever recoiling before weariness or difficulties;
to work, above all, with purity of intention, and with detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account which I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus, all for Mary, all after thy example, O patriarch Joseph.
Such shall be my watchword in life and in death.
Amen.

Remember, O most pure spouse of the blessed Virgin Mary, my sweet protector, St. Joseph!
that no one ever had recourse to thy protection or implored thy aid without obtaining relief.
Confiding therefore in thy goodness, I come before thee, and humbly supplicate thee.
Oh, despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them.
Amen.

St. Joseph, today I am looking for work: (name the job or interview).
Open the right doors and close the wrong ones.
Give me patience while I wait, confidence when I speak, and trust in God’s providence. Amen.

St. Joseph, be with me in this interview.
Help me to be calm, honest and clear, and to show the gifts God has given me.
If this job is good for me, obtain it for me; if not, lead me to a better one. Amen.

St. Joseph, thank you for your help. I have found work!
Help me to do my job well, to be fair with others, and to offer my work to God every day. Amen.

To thee, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse in our affliction and, after imploring the help of thy most holy spouse, we confidently invoke thy patronage also.
By that affection which united thee to the immaculate virgin Mother of God, and by the fatherly love with which thou didst embrace the infant Jesus, look down, we beseech thee, with gracious eyes on the precious inheritance which Jesus Christ purchased by His blood, and help us in our necessities by thy powerful intercession.
Protect, O most provident guardian of the Holy Family, the elect children of Jesus Christ;
ward off from us, O most loving father, every contagion of error and corrupting influence;
be propitious to us from heaven, O most powerful protector, in this our struggle with the powers of darkness;
and as thou didst once rescue the child Jesus from the greatest peril to His life, so now defend God’s holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity.
Finally, shield every one of us with thy patronage, that, imitating thy example and strengthened by thy help, we may live a holy life, die a happy death, and attain to everlasting happiness in heaven.
Amen.

And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.

Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.