Litany of Saint Josemaría Escrivá to ask for work

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.
Saint Joseph the Worker, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría Escrivá, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, priest of Jesus Christ, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, founder of Opus Dei, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who in 1928 didst see what God wanted of thee, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, apostle of holiness in the middle of the world, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst teach that ordinary work can be prayer, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst call work a sharing in God’s creative work, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst learn from Saint Joseph the trade of each day, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst want every task well finished, for love, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst teach us to sanctify work, to sanctify ourselves in work and to sanctify others through work, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who hadst no other recipe than work and prayer, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, son of a father who lost his business and began again, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst know poverty and the uncertainty of tomorrow, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst entrust to God the accounts that did not add up, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst teach us to ask with the faith of one who has already received, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst make thyself a beggar of graces for others, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, friend of workers and of students, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, friend of mothers who keep the home, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, friend of those looking for a job, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, friend of those who begin again after losing everything, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst say that God never loses battles, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, who didst teach us to see the Father behind every chance, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, intercessor in material needs, pray for us.
Saint Josemaría, intercessor in spiritual needs, pray for us.

That I may find the work I need, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.
That I may accept the work God gives me, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.
That I may work with honesty and competence, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.
That I may not lose my peace while I wait, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.
That I may support with dignity those who depend on me, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.
That I may see in work a way to God, Saint Josemaría, intercede for me.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

℣ Pray for us, Saint Josemaría.
℟ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray

O God, who through the intercession of the Virgin Mary didst grant Saint Josemaría countless graces and didst choose him to teach that everyday work is a way to holiness: grant me, through his intercession, the work I need to live and to support my own, and the grace to do it with the same faith, the same joy and the same love with which he did it. Through Christ our Lord.