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Bless the church, starting with her ministers, and make her the sign and instrument of your light and goodness.
Accompany families with your silent prayer and build harmony between parents and children, and especially the youngest ones.
Preserve the elderly from loneliness, and [ensure] that no one falls into the desperation of abandonment or discouragement.
Console the most fragile, encourage the waverer, intercede for the poor.
St. Joseph, together with the Virgin Mary, plead with the Lord so that he may free the world from every form of pandemic.”
Pope Francis
Video Message on the feast of St. Joseph
March 19, 2020