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Joseph most obedient, pray for us.

Joseph The official prayer of the Year of St.

And he called his name Jesus.

O most watchful Guardian of the Incarnate Son of God, glorious St.

God, who in Thine ineffable Providence didst vouchsafe to choose Blessed Joseph to be the husband of Thy most holy Mother, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may be made worthy to receive him for our intercessor in heaven, whom on earth we venerate as our holy Protector: who livest and reignest world without end.

That is the normal course of events.

2:14 So he arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew into Egypt.

Joseph most faithful, pray for us.

I ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His Immaculate Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to your own country.

You are the good father and protector of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of those in need and sorrow.

Accept each little devotion of the day, though replete with imperfection, and offer it to Jesus, Whose mercy will overlook all, since He regards not so much the gift as the love of the giver.

Mary would have known very well how it could be that the angel was saying she would have a baby.