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Summary
- Ten short prayers let a wife pray for her husband at the start of a working day, while he looks for a job, before an interview, when work goes badly, in a dangerous job, when he is worn out, for honesty, for money, before a decision and in thanks.
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s “For Every Man in his Work” (p. 44) and a family prayer “In the Morning” (p. 594) are quoted in full.
- “A Wife’s Prayer” in the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers asks God to help her “soothe him in perplexity” and “refresh him in weariness.”
- Genesis 39 says the LORD made Joseph prosper as a slave and a prisoner; Daniel 6 records that Daniel’s rivals could find “none occasion nor fault” in his work.
- Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker on 1 May 1955.
- Deuteronomy 18:10–11 and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2117) reject spells and charms, which many Russian searches ask for.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 39:2, 23; Deuteronomy 18:10–11; Daniel 6:1–5; Psalm 90:17; 121:8; 127:2; Proverbs 15:1; Matthew 6:7–8; 11:28; 13:55; Philippians 4:6; Colossians 3:23; James 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Every Man in his Work,” p. 44; Family Prayer, “In the Morning,” p. 594. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Sacrament of Matrimony, “A Wife’s Prayer,” pp. 451–452. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888/page/452/mode/1up
- Apostolic Penitentiary. Decree on the granting of special indulgences for the Year of Saint Joseph, 8 December 2020. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/tribunals/apost_penit/documents/rc_trib_appen_pro_20201208_decreto-indulgenze-sangiuseppe_en.html
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraph 2117. https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM
