Prayer for Father's Day (6/16/2024)

My prayer for all fathers:

Loving and merciful Father, you created fathers after your Sacred Heart and gave them Saint Joseph as a model of authentic masculinity, fatherhood, and protector. Bless and protect all fathers as they work to provide for their families. Keep their hearts chaste and pure. Heal the wounded hearts of fathers who have suffered the lost of their children and grant them your peace and consolation. Endow all men with the grace to be the husbands, fathers, and spiritual fathers that their wives, children, and those entrusted to their care need them to be. We ask this through the intercession of Saint Joseph, the Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Worker, the Protector, and the Terror of Demons. Amen.