The prayer below, which Dave wrote for ... you too will seek out the help of your spiritual father as you lead your own family toward heaven! St. Joseph, you embody all the virtues I hope to ...

eternal in heaven. After a time of silence, all join in prayers of intercession, or in one of the litanies or other prayers. All then join hands for the Lord's Prayer: Our Father.

Such a prayer is effective ... Let us stand before our father in heaven and cry out, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" The writer is the rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites.