Joseph by the work of your hands and
the sweat of your brow, you supported
Jesus and Mary, and had the Son of God
as your fellow worker. Teach me to work
as you did, with patience and
perseverance, for God and for those
whom God has given me to support.
Teach me to see in my fellow workers the
Christ who desires to be in them, that I
may always be charitable and forbearing
towards all. Grant me to look upon work
with the eyes of faith, so that I shall
recognise in it my share in God’s own
creative activity and in Christ’s work of
our redemption, and so to take pride in it.
When it is pleasant and productive,
remind me to give thanks to God for it.
And when it is burdensome, teach me to
offer it to God, in reparation for my sins
and the sins of the worked.
Amen.