Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
O Joseph, sweet guardian of Jesus and Mary,
to whom you dedicated your whole life,
intercede for me that to me too
it may be given to live for and with them.
You spent your whole existence with the Son of God,
as a child you held him in your arms
and received his head upon your breast,
intercede for me, O Joseph,
that I may be given to welcome Jesus into my heart.
You loved Mary with a virginal and spousal love,
obtain for me the grace of being lived
by this most sweet mother
until I live my whole existence
in intimate communion with her.
O Joseph, look upon the Church, which honors and venerates you,
and obtain for me the grace of enlarging my heart
to the immense family of Jesus Christ,
which extends and perpetuates through the centuries
the family of Nazareth.
You breathed your last in the arms of Jesus and Mary,
assisted and enfolded by their love,
intercede for me, so that, at the hour of my death,
I may experience the sweet hope
of seeing, I too, the gentle face of the Savior
and that of his Mother and ours;
may she, at that hour, be my gateway to heaven;
may I too fall asleep in her maternal arms
to awaken once more in her arms.
Amen.