Wording for a Mass intention

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I’m going through a nasty ordeal at church, so last Monday I asked St. Joseph to take me under his wing and exercise his fatherly charisms in my life, especially provision and protection. I didn’t ask for a sign or anything in particular at all, but he immediately got me a car. By immediately, I mean it was parked in my garage on Friday night. The car:
  • was just over half of what we were planning to spend
  • materialized eight months earlier than we were planning to purchase, so my current car can sell for more
  • is in wonderful condition
  • has power-everything; my current car has manual windows and locks
  • is my favorite color - blue - and when I saw it in person I learned it even has pinstripes!
  • (a used car that isn’t silver - do you know how RARE that is??)
  • a problem with the physical hatchback lock meant the cheapest fix is to buy a remote fob (I get to have a remote!). We expected to spend around $175 for the fob, but found a generic one for $15
I had to go and get it myself because of Husband’s work schedule - only possible because a friend who is always booked solid had the whole day free on one day’s notice and agreed to drive 5 hours round-trip with me - so I now own a car in my own name for the first time in at least a decade.

Seriously, what more Dad thing is there than to find your daughter a vehicle?? And completely out of the blue like that. I am blown away.

I would like to offer a Mass in thanksgiving for this saint’s amazing intercession. So I have two questions:
  1. Do we receive favors from or through a saint?
  2. How should I word this intention? Is “In thanksgiving for favors received from/through St. Joseph” appropriate?
 
Actually, the most common color is red, so…and your car has modern features most cars less than 10 years old has. Not to say you weren’t fortunate, but you might be looking into things a bit much.

I think that simply stating “In thanksgiving for the intervention of St. Joseph” would be fine.
 
Or “in thanksgiving for the intercession of St. Joseph”

There’s a shrine to St. Rita of Cascia not far from where I live. Masses are often requested there in thanksgiving for her intercession. 🙂
 
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There were many other details that were perfectly suited to me - and you also don’t know anything about the situation that prompted my plea. What an unkind and ungenerous thing to say.
 
No, I don’t know. It’s good that you got what you wanted. However, it is incorrect that silver cars are the most common. Red cars are. And most cars today do have electronic systems. You got something very nice. No need to exaggerate. It downplays the gift of what happened.
 
I would use wording similar to this reply:
UpUpAndAway said:
“in thanksgiving for the intercession of St. Joseph”
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because it is not by St. Joseph’s own power that you got the car. If he provides and protects, it is because the Lord granted him that power, and the Lord would only do that if it carried out His will.

Perhaps all Joseph needed to do was pray to God on your behalf. Notice how in the Lord’s Prayer, we ask the Father to do many things – to give, to forgive, to lead, to deliver – while in the Hail Mary, we ask Mary to do only one thing, to pray for us.
 
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I just wanted to publicly say that I made a rude comment about another poster earlier in the thread, and that I apologize to her for such unChristian behavior. I withdraw any sort of detraction I made, and I ask her to forgive me. Thank you … and thank you also for your sincerely good contributions to the various threads here. 😀😀😀
 
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The point was not the rarity of the color or features in absolute terms. The point is that the car is a significant upgrade for me in every way, and is far more than I would ever expect in my circumstances. This is not an exaggeration.

Car markets vary in different regions. Everyone local I’ve told this story to nods and groans when I talk about the used silver cars. We all have stories about silver-fatigue.

But curious, I looked it up: In the year my new car was produced, silver, white, black, and grey were the most common car colors in North America. Overall, these are always the most common, accounting for 70% of all cars sold. Red, blue, green account for less than 30% combined; and blue is the second rarest car color. (Wikipedia.)
 
Thank you, UpUp and Random. That’s the clarification I was looking for. I’m fairly new to praying to saints. 🙂
 
Congrats on the car. It’s always so amazing when everything falls into place, more so, when it’s totally out of the “blue” LOL
 
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