The First and the Second Joseph - by Fr. Marin de Boylesve

 

 
 

    Devotion to St. Joseph is one of the choicest graces that God can give to a soul, for it is tantamount to revealing the entire treasury of Our Lord's graces. When God wishes to raise a soul to greater heights, He unites it to St. Joseph by giving it a strong love for the good saint.”

                                                     ~ St. Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868)


    If you wish to increase your trust, love and devotion for St. Joseph, this beautiful collection of thirty-one meditations is a must-have for your spiritual reading collection. Noted for his book, 'Little Month of Saint Joseph', Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813-1892) shows in his next set of reflections how the greatness of St. Joseph was foretold through the life of the favourite son of Jacob. God blessed the first Joseph of the Old Testament with so many graces, great power and authority, but this was only a prelude to what He had prepared for the second Joseph of the New Testament, the hidden, humble son of David chosen to be the foster father of His beloved Son and the spouse of His Immaculate Mother.


    In addition to the meditations, there are several accounts of the miraculous interventions of this great saint, also thirty-three sacred illustrations and various pious devotions are included. Are you in need of a great heavenly intercessor to safeguard your spiritual and temporal interests? “Go to Joseph, and do all that he shall say to you.” (Gen. 41:55)


About the Author: Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered in France for spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his writings thereby promoting the cause for the construction of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris.


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Size: 5" x 8"

ISBN:  978-9895372621

174 Pages

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The First and Second Joseph
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More About this Book- Table of Contents:

 

Table of Contents


About this Edition ………………………… 9

About the Author ………………………… 10


Part I: 31 Days of Meditations:

Joseph of the Old Testament

and

Joseph of the New Testament … Pages 25 to 85



Part II : The Power of St. Joseph

Demonstrated by

Recent Events ……… 86


~ CONVERSIONS:


1 ~ Abjuration …………………… 86

2 ~ A Family Man ……………… 87

3 ~ A Protestant ……………… 88

4 ~ An Illness …………………… 90

5 ~ A Freemason ……………… 91

6 ~ An Elderly Man …………… 91

7 ~ An Old Impious Man …… 92

8 ~ Go Fetch the Priest ……… 95

9 ~ Three Conversions ……… 98



~ TEMPORAL FAVOURS:


10 ~ A Calmed Storm …………… 100

11 ~ A Child is Healed ………… 102

12 ~ Health Strengthened …… 103

13 ~ A Parish Preserved ……… 104

14 ~ Affairs Settled …………… 105

15 ~ A Healing …………………… 106

16 ~ Prosperity of

a Boarding School ……… 107

17 ~ The Garibaldians and

the Jesuits ………………… 108

18 ~ A Demon Cast Out ……… 110

19 ~ Moral and Physical Healing 112

20 ~ Hope Against All Hope …… 112



~ ST. JOSEPH AND THE DYING:


21 ~ The Pious Magistrate …… 116

22 ~ The Dying Religious …… 118


Appendix


Apparition of St. Joseph

to the Breton Stigmatist,

Marie-Julie Jahenny ……… 121


Devotion to the Seven Joys

and the Seven Sorrows

of St. Joseph ………… 130


Prayer to St. Joseph

for a Soul in Purgatory …… 139

A Novena to St. Joseph ………… 141


Saint Joseph,

Dear Guardian of Mary … 144

Prayer to St. Joseph

in Any Great Necessity … 146


Prayer of Confidence

in St. Joseph ……………… 146


The Chaplet of St. Joseph ……… 148


Indulgenced Prayers to St. Joseph:


~ Indulgences granted during March

for Devotions said

in Honour of St. Joseph ……… 150

~ Novena in Honour of St. Joseph,

Spouse of Mary Most Holy …… 151


~ The Memorare to St. Joseph ……… 151


~ Prayers in Honour of St. Joseph

for Those in Their Last Agony … 152


~ Act of Consecration to St. Joseph … 153


~ Prayer of St. Pius X

to St. Joseph the Worker ……… 155


~ Short Invocations to St. Joseph …… 156


~ Prayer for Purity ……………………… 157


~ Prayer to St. Joseph,

Patron of the Universal Church 157


~ Prayers for

St. Joseph's Intercession ……… 158


~ Short Prayers to the Holy Family … 160

 

 
 
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