{"id":2555,"date":"2006-12-30T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T22:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/saint-joseph-advocate-and-defe\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T22:15:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T22:15:33","slug":"saint-joseph-advocate-and-defe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/saint-joseph-advocate-and-defe\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joseph, Advocate and Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/IMG_2283.JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_2283.JPG.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/IMG_2283.JPG-thumb.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A Priest&#8217;s Prayer to Saint Joseph<\/strong><br \/>\nSaint Joseph,<br \/>\nI take you this day as my advocate and defender,<br \/>\nmy counselor and my friend.<br \/>\nOpen your heart to me<br \/>\nas you opened your home to the Virgin Mother<br \/>\nin her hour of need.<br \/>\nProtect my holy priesthood<br \/>\nas you protected the life of the Infant Christ<br \/>\nthreatened by cruel Herod.<br \/>\nIn darkness bring me light;<br \/>\nin weakness, strength,<br \/>\nand in fear the peace that passes understanding.<br \/>\nFor the sake of the tender love that bound you<br \/>\nto the Virgin Mary and the Infant Christ,<br \/>\nbe for me, Saint Joseph, a constant intercessor<br \/>\nand a shield against every danger of body, mind, and soul<br \/>\nso that, in spite of my weaknesses and sins,<br \/>\nmy priesthood may bring glory to Christ<br \/>\nand serve to increase the beauty of holiness<br \/>\nin his bride the Church.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Priest&#8217;s Prayer to Saint Joseph Saint Joseph, I take you this day as my advocate and defender, my counselor and my friend. Open your heart to me as you opened your home to the Virgin Mother in her hour of need. Protect my holy priesthood as you protected the life of the Infant Christ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Fd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}