Dei qui gratiam impotes [S. Joseph.] In the Raccolta di Orazioni (see p. 1548, ii.), edition Rome, 1837, p. 398, there is an office of St. Joseph (with this hymn at p. 406), indulged by Pope Pius VII. in a rescript of June 2G, 1809. The hymn is probably little, if any, older than 1800. Translated as:—
Seek ye the grace of God, by E. Caswall, in the Birmingham Oratory Hymn Book, 1857, No. 46 (1906, No. 63), in his Masque of Mary, 1858, p. 318, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)