# Verified against Divinum Officium (Tridentine 1910, i.e. the version
# labeled "Tridentine - 1906" in the reference engine's own picker), Lauds
# live query, clean ferial day 2026-06-17. Sourced from a different
# rubric track than the other four suffrages (Monastic Tridentinum 1617,
# which doesn't carry a St. Joseph suffrage at Lauds at all) per direct
# instruction -- see lauds-suffrage-cross.yml's header for the set this
# joins, and calendar/lauds.ts's suffrages case for the fuller sourcing
# story and how this one differs from the other four in when it's shown
# (never omitted, only the BVM suffrage is, and only when the day's own
# office is already Marian).
id: lauds-suffrage-joseph
text:
  la: |
    Ant. Ipse Jesus erat incípiens quasi annórum trigínta ut putabátur fílius Joseph.
    V. Os justi meditábitur sapiéntiam.
    R. Et lingua ejus loquétur judícium.
    Orémus.
    Deus, qui ineffábili providéntia beátum Joseph sanctíssimæ Genitrícis tuæ sponsum elígere dignátus es: præsta quǽsumus; ut quem protectórem venerámur in terris, intercessórem habére mereámur in cælis.
  en: |
    Ant. Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph.
    V. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom.
    R. And his tongue talketh judgment.
    Let us pray.
    O God, who, in thine unspeakable foreknowledge, didst choose thy blessed servant Joseph to be the husband of thine own most holy Mother; mercifully grant that now that he is in heaven with thee, we who on earth do reverence him for our defender, may worthily be holpen by the succour of his prayers to thee on our behalf.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified