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Blessingsof St. Josephs Table

This document provides a blessing ritual for St. Joseph's Table celebrated on March 19. It involves blessing bread, pastries and other foods to give to the poor. The ritual begins with making the sign of the cross and reading a passage from the Gospel of Matthew about Jesus's conception. It then includes a prayer asking God to bless the food and sustain all people, recalling how St. Joseph provided for Jesus and the poor. The leader says "Amen" to conclude the blessing.

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Blessingsof St. Josephs Table

This document provides a blessing ritual for St. Joseph's Table celebrated on March 19. It involves blessing bread, pastries and other foods to give to the poor. The ritual begins with making the sign of the cross and reading a passage from the Gospel of Matthew about Jesus's conception. It then includes a prayer asking God to bless the food and sustain all people, recalling how St. Joseph provided for Jesus and the poor. The leader says "Amen" to conclude the blessing.

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Blessing of St.

Joseph’s Table
[1679] son and you are to name him Jesus,
On the Solemnity of St. Joseph (March 19) it is the custom in because he will save his people from
some places to bless bread, pastries, and other food and give their sins.” All this took place to
a large portion of it to the poor.
fulfill what the Lord had said through
S [1697]
the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child
All make the sign of the cross as the leader
says: and bear a son, and they shall name
him Emmanuel,”
Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R/. Who made heaven and earth. which means “God is with us.”
[1698] [1699]
One of those present or the leader reads a Or Matthew 13:54-58—Is this not the
text of sacred Scripture, for example: carpenter’s son?
[1700]
Listen to the words of the holy Gospel The leader says the prayer of blessing with
according to Matthew: 1:18-23 the hands joined:

Now this is how the birth of Jesus All-provident God,


Christ came about. When his mother the good things that grace this table
Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but remind us of your many good gifts.
before they lived together, she was Bless this food,
found with child through the holy and may the prayers of St. Joseph,
Spirit. Joseph her husband, since he who provided bread for your Son and food for
was a righteous man, yet unwilling the poor,
to expose her to shame, decided to sustain us and all our brothers and sisters
divorce her quietly. Such was his on our journey towards your heavenly
intention when, behold, the angel of Kingdom.
the Lord appeared to him in a dream Through Christ our Lord.
and said, “Joseph, son of David, do R/. Amen.
not be afraid to take Mary your wife —From Book of Blessings
into your home. For it is through the
holy Spirit that this child has been
conceived in her. She will bear a

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