Prayers to St. Joseph Cafasso
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Prayer to St. Joseph Cafasso
St. Joseph Cafasso, you were born with a spinal abnormality that afflicted your health and made you short of stature. Despite this deformity, you fasted and lived minimally. Always devout as a child, you discerned the priesthood in adolescence and were ordained in Turin. You were a member of the Third Order Franciscans, a teacher, lecturer, chaplain, and rector of a college. But you were best known for your work among Italian prisoners, comforting them and converting them before they went to the gallows.
St. Joseph, like Padre Pio and St. John Vianney, you spent many hours in the confessional. Pray that we may take advantage of this merciful sacrament and go to it often. St. Joseph, you were a friend and spiritual advisor to Don Bosco, encouraging him in his work with street urchins. Pray that we may all have holy friends and mentors who can help guide us closer to God. St. Joseph, you never let your frail health slow you down nor did you ever complain of the pain. Pray that we may bear our sufferings with patience in union with Christ Jesus. Amen.
St. Joseph Cafasso, pray for us!
St. Joseph Cafasso’s Prayer to Avoid Purgatory
“O my sweet Jesus, in addition to the many graces which Thou hast conferred on me in the course of my life, I ask Thee for this further one: when my soul shall have departed from this world, not only that it not be condemned to Hell, but that it shall not be compelled to remain away from Thee for even a moment in Purgatory. It is true that I am a debtor to Divine Justice, but I hope to pay all my debts from the infinite merits of Thy Passion and Death. O Heaven, holy city of my God, my dear native land! Oh, howI sigh for thee! O happy day when I shall reach thee! O Heavn, my dear Heaven, come quicky and satisfy the desires of a wretched heart that sighs for thee!
“My God, I accept whatever kind of death it may please Thee to send me, with all the terrors, all the pains, all the sufferings that shall justly accompany it. Finally, I pray Thee to accept the destruction of my body as the last act of homage that I can offer to Thy Supreme Divine Majesty, in satisfaction for the offenses committed in the course of my life.
“O Mary, I ask thee for one more grace: Obtain from thy Divine Son that I may die, but that I may die with thee, and that I may fly to Heaven along with thee. O merciful Mother, grant that when my soul is liberated from this wretched body I may go immediately to find thee in Heaven, there to commence that life which will be my occupation for all eternity. Amen