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Rh Queen of all Saints; your guardian Angel; St. Michael, the Archangel; and all your patrons.

Daily entreat the Eternal Father and His Beloved Son, and ask for the prayers of the Blessed Virgin, that St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin, may also aid you, and confidently ask God for his special care and protection. Many wonderful things are told us of this glorious Saint, and of the many favours, both temporal and spiritual, which have been granted to those who have honoured him with pious veneration, and devoutly sought his prayers,—more especially to those who have wanted help in prayer and meditation.

For if God has so greatly honoured other saints who during their life have rendered honour and service to Him, what esteem will He have for that most humble and blessed Saint, whom He Himself so honoured upon earth as to be subject to him as to a father, and so obeyed and served him!

HAT has already been said respecting meditation on the Lord's Passion,