Consecration of our family to the Holy Family

* This act of consecration to the Holy Family will u nite the members of your family more closely to God and to one another.

Prayer

O Jesus, our most loving Redeemer, Who having come to enlighten the world, with Your teaching and example, willed to pass the greater part of Your life in humility and subjection to Mary and Joseph in the poor home of Nazareth, thus sanctifying the Family that was to be an example for all Christian families, graciously receive our family as it dedicates and consecrates itself to You this day. Defend us, guard us and establish among us Your holy fear, true peace and concord in Christian love: in order that by conforming ourselves to the divine pattern of Your Family we may be able, all of us without exception, to attain to eternal happiness.

Mary, dear Mother of Jesus and Mother of us, by your kind intercession make this our humble offering acceptable in the sight of Jesus, and obtain for us His graces and blessings.

Saint Joseph, most holy Guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your prayers in all our spiritual and temporal necessities; that we may be able to praise our divine Savior Jesus, together with Mary and you, for all eternity.

Our Father, Hail Mary and Gloria three times.

Prayer Source: Catholic Family Handbook, The by Rev. George A. Kelly, Random House, Inc., New York, 1959 

Act of Consecration to the Blessed Sacrament

 

My LORD Jesus Christ, Who because of Your love for men remain night and day in the Blessed Sacrament, full of pity and of love, awaiting, calling and welcoming all who come to visit You, I believe that You are present here on the altar. I adore You, and I thank You for all the graces You have bestowed on me, especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament, for having given me Your most holy Mother Mary to plead for me, and for having called me to visit You in this church.

I now salute Your most loving Heart, and that for three ends: first, in thanksgiving for this great gift; secondly, to make amends to You for all the outrages committed against You in this Sacrament by Your enemies; thirdly, I intend by this visit to adore You in all the places on earth in which You are present in the Blessed Sacrament and in which You are least honored and most abandoned.

My Jesus, I love You with my whole heart. I am very sorry for having so many times offended Your infinite goodness. With the help of Your grace, I purpose never to offend You again. And now, unworthy though I am, I consecrate myself to You without reserve. I renounce and give entirely to You my will, my affection, my desires and all that I possess. For the future, dispose of me and all I have as You please.

All I ask of You is Your holy love, final perseverance and that I may carry out Your will perfectly. I recommend to You the souls in Purgatory, especially those who had the greatest devotion to

the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I also recommend to You all poor sinners.

Finally, my dear Saviour, I unite all my desires with the desires of Your most loving Heart; and I offer them, thus united, to the Eternal Father, and beseech Him, in Your name and for love of You, to accept and grant them.

Amen.

Prayer to Our Lady Mary Undoer of Knots

Mary, Beloved Mother, channel of all grace, I return to You today my heart, recognizing that I am a sinner in need of your help. Many times I lose the graces you c because of my sins of egoism, pride, rancor and my lack of generosity and humility. I turn to You today, Mary, Undoer of knots, for You to ask your Son Jesus to grant me a pure, divested, humble and trusting heart. I will live today practicing these virtues and offering you this as a sign of my love for You. I entrust into Your hands this knot . . . (MENTION YOUR REQUEST HERE) . . . which keeps me from reflecting the glory of God.

MARY, UNDOER OF KNOTS, pray for me.✝❤

Palms for Jesus, Roses for Mary ~ America Needs Fatima

Today is Palm Sunday…a holy day of mixed emotions, if ever there was one. Triumphant joy in one moment, and a sense of betrayal in the next. Please know that my prayers are with you today! Now I have something important to share with you, Stanley– This May 13th, the 102nd anniversary of the first Fatima apparition will fall the day after Mother’s Day. This is a great coincidence so I want to offer you a way to give your motherTHE PERFECT Mother’s Day gift. Here’s my idea–

Flowers are springing up all around us here at America Needs Fatima headquarters. And it got me thinking about a beautiful way for a child to show his love for his mother: by handing her a bouquet of flowers. I am planning a large delivery of roses to Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal on May 13th, the 102nd anniversary of the first apparition Our Lady of the Rosary. Can I place a rose or two at Mary’s feet in your mother’s name and for her intentions? Can you imagine a more pleasing gift? Just imagine … an elegant assortment of lovely roses; nothing melts the heart of a mother quite like flowers. Or brings a warmer smile to her lips. Click here to select your own unique bouquet for Mother Mary. So, Stanley, here is your chance to send flowers to Mother Mary in honor of your own mother, living or deceased. And not just any flowers…no, only the queen of flowers will do for the Queen of Heaven. Roses. In whatever color (or colors!) YOU want to send. Please, let me explain… As you probably know already, different colored roses express different sentiments.

If your heart is full of love and devotion for your mother, choose a RED rose. If your heart swells with gratitude for the many things your mother has done for you over the years, choose the PINK rose. If just the thought of your mother gladdens your heart, place a YELLOW rose at Mary’s feet for her. And, finally, if your mother loves white roses, then you can honor that with a WHITE rose. Click here to send roses to Our Lady of Fatima for your mother — today! The choice is totally up to you! For only $7 a rose, you are invited to design your very own personal message of love to present to Our Lady of Fatima on a very, VERY special day. So as you lift your palm branches high in honor of the King of Kings today… … just think of the smile that will be on the face of the Queen of the Universe when She sees the lovely rose you have offered in your mother’s name! And there’s even something more: Click here to send your personal bouquet to Fatima. How are you going to let your mother know? Here is how:

1. I want you to have a beautiful Fatima Rose Certificate to give to your mother on Mother’s Day. With a place to write your mother’s name on it as a special keepsake! This is so that she will see what a special gift you have sent to Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal in her honor. 2. When we deliver your mother’s rose or roses to Fatima, we will send you photos so you can email them to your mother.  At the same time, Stanley, your gift offering is one that will keep on giving long after May 12th has passed and the lovely flowers have faded… ….and that is because your $7 per rose offering will help America Needs Fatima bring even more honor and glory to Our Lady with our Public Square Rosary Rallies this October. Your gift will help me reach the goal of 20,000 Rosary Rallies on October 12, 2019, to bring the Fatima message out into the streets of America. Click here to select your roses for Our Lady now! That means roughly 1 million people will be out in the public square proclaiming their love for Holy Mary, praying her rosary as she asked at Fatima and calling down graces of CONVERSION on America. Can you believe we can do all of this for just $7 a rose? Thank you for reading my rather long email; I just get really excited when I think about how much we can do for Our Heavenly Mother who has done so very much for all of us. Getting the PERFECT GIFT for your mother on Mother’s Day has never been easier—just click here and check this gift off your list today!

I remain your friend, In Jesus and Mary,

Robert Ritchie Director, America Needs Fatima www.ANF.org

PS: And when we deliver the Roses at Fatima, we will send you photos so you can forward them to your mother!

Happy Birthday Mother Mary ~ 8 September

September 8, Our Lady's birthday, the Universal Church celebrates the first dawning of redemption with the appearance in the world of the Savior's mother, Mary. The Blessed Virgin occupies a unique place in the history of salvation, and she has the highest mission ever commended to any creature. We rejoice that the Mother of God is our Mother, too. Let us often call upon the Blessed Virgin as "Cause of our joy",

Happy Birthday Dearest Mother

Pray for us sinners and lead us 

to your Son and our Lord, Jesus.

We Love You, Mama Mary.

Mother Mary, get ahead ....

Maria, get ahead of my life!

Maria, get ahead of my health!

Maria, get ahead of my work!

Maria, get ahead of my finances!

Maria, get in front of my family! 

Amen.

Happy Birthday Mother Mary, Our dearest Divine Mother ~ 8 September 2017

The Catholic Church celebrates today the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

May Our Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, 

mother of Our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ 

intercede for us today and always!

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on 8 September nine months after the feast of her Immaculate Conception on 8 December. She was born to be the mother of the Savior of the world, the spiritual mother of all men, and the holiest of God's creatures. Mary was conceived and born immaculate and full of grace. She is the Mother of God and our Mother, too. Let us often call upon the Blessed Virgin as "Cause of our joy", one of the most beautiful titles in her litany. Only three birthdays is celebrated by Church, that is the birth of Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist. All three born without original sin, Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Mary, because she was kept free from the stain of Original Sin by the action of God, and Saint John, because he was blessed in the womb by the presence of his Savior when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, came to aid her cousin Elizabeth in the final months of Elizabeth's pregnancy (the visitation).

Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin may bring deeper peace to those for whom the birth of her Son was the dawning of salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Why Catholics honour Mary?

Catholics do not worship Mary but we do have enough sense to pay her great honor for saying "yes," and for carrying the Son of God in her womb and supplying His DNA. Not to mention the fact that she gave Him more strength than any other human being. If you truly love Jesus, honoring Mary is a natural part of that love.

Dispel the myth, know the facts, communicate the truth. Every Catholic should be somewhat offended when this lie gets perpetuated as if we don't know our God.

Mary was Immaculately Conceived and had to be by a preemptive act of Grace through Jesus Christ. She had to be a pure vessel to carry the Son of God. In the Scriptures Gabriel says "Hail full of Grace." She is puzzled by the greeting because it indicates that she is without sin.

Please keep in mind that the Church believes that her sinless state comes through Jesus, who existed from the beginning. It doesn't make Mary a god. You cant be a God-bearer with the stain of sin. This Dogma says more about the Glory of God than it does about Mary. The vessel that would be the gate by which Divinity became humanity, had to be a pure one.

She took on flesh, but no stain of sin. He was born of a virgin. Why is it such a large jump to believe that Mary was preserved from sin for this special role? How could God have His DNA supplied by a sinful person? Regardless, the point of this statement is to dispel the lie that we worship Mary.

An Archangel appeared to this woman and she gave birth to God as a virgin. Regardless, she is mega special and worthy of a great honor. If Jesus is Savior and I'm a part of his family, then Mary is my mother. I love her dearly.

~ Father Claude Thomas Burns

Prayer that appeals to St. Expedite to specifically petition Mother Mary in the form of Our Lady of Sorrows on our behalf

My Lord Jesus Christ ...

O Glorious Martyr, Saint Expedite, who was so much loved by the Queen of Heaven, that to you nothing was denied, ask her, please my advocate, that through the sufferings of her Divine Son and her own sorrows, I may receive this day the grace I ask of you; but above all the grace to die first before I commit any mortal sin. Amen. (Note this is a prayer that appeals to St. Expedite to specifically petition Mother Mary in the form of Our Lady of Sorrows on our behalf.)

Followed by:

• Three Our Fathers in honor of the Most Holy Trinity.
• One Memorare to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• One Hail Mary in Honor of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Mother Mary, hear my cry in this urgent and desperate time. Pray and intercede for me ....

Dearest Mother Mary, you are highly favoured by God since your conception in your mother’s St. Anne’s womb to keep you free from all stain of original sin in preparation of you to be the mother of His only son Jesus Christ our Saviour. You are known of your miraculous intercession and prayer to Jesus, I and many have felt and received your miraculous power through Jesus having our petitions answered. Therefore, I who is currently going through storms in my life, and in need of your power intercession and prayer in overcoming the difficulties that I have been facing for several months which have become beyond my means and require urgent help. I have been diagnosed to be suffering from severe OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea) whereby my sleep at night is disrupted over 600 times/8hours caused by obstruction of the upper airway (windpipe) when the throat muscles intermittently relax (repetitive pauses) and block my airway during sleep, despite the effort to breathe, and is usually associated with a reduction in blood oxygen saturation. And now I need to buy CPAP machine (continuous positive airway pressure) which cost RM5600~RM5800 to use every night to ensure my airways is always open for breathing. I am also have financial difficulties where I have backlogs with the banks and some people, which I unable solve due to the sum is huge and these people are chasing me each and every day, making me even more worried. Therefore, I put all my trust, hope and believe in the hands of God and your son Jesus, I know I am a sinner and may they show their mercy upon me, and do not let me be put to shame or disgrace but saved and restore me. Only miracle from Jesus by the will of the Father in Heaven can heal and provide for my solution to the above mess that I have caused in my life. I want and vow to change my ways and character for the better, by the help from Jesus and the Father through your intercession and prayer, dearest Mother Mary. As a human, I feel so hopeless, impossible, desperate and worried, I urgently need your miraculous intercession and prayer, which I truly believe will be answered, and the help needed soon come from Jesus with the will of Father. I am confident as whatever a mother asks of her son, he will not reject. Like during the wedding in Cana where Jesus perform His first miracle where when you said to Him the wine has run out, and He instructed the servant to filled the jars with water and miraculous change jars of water into wine. Jesus will always answer you mother Mary, do not forsake me but hear my cry for this urgent and desperate request, pray and intercede for me and all those who are also

in need of your aid. Amen.

Rosary ~ do not neglect it, if you are in need of the intercession and prayer by Mother Mary

When we recite the Rosary to Our Blessed Virgin Mary, reflect on the sacred mysteries (Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mystery) of our salvation and the ministry life of Jesus (Luminous Mystery) and say each Our Father and Hail Mary with due reverence, praying for our particular intentions, all the while trying to create vivid mental images of Christ and Our Lady in our mind's eye. The Rosary is the prayer of the Gospels and if you make a habit of praying it everyday you will internalize the Gospels themselves.

Our Blessed Virgin Mary's intercessory power is strong before the throne of God because Jesus would deny His Mother nothing. And like any good mother, Our Blessed Virgin Mary wants to help her dear children on earth. Mary is the Mother of God and our Mother too.

"To this heavenly mother, we have offered the flowers of the month of May; to her we would also have fruit-bearing October dedicated with a particularly tender devotion. It is fitting that both parts of the year should be consecrated to her…" 

~ Pope Leo XIII, Augustissimae Virginis, 12 Sept, 1897 ~

“You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.”

~ Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche ~

“If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God’s grace, peaceful places."

~ Father Patrick Peyton ~

"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot solve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls."

~ St. Lucia of Fatima ~

Thank you Lord, Thank you Mother Mary

O God, we thank you 

for giving us such a wonderful Mother. 

A Mother to understand us. 

A Mother to be with us.

A Mother to take all our tears, 

all our problems, all our sins, 

all our sufferings to Jesus.

Mother Mary, pray for us at all times.

And together with you, Mother, 

we want to go to Jesus. 

Amen.

Thank you JESUS,

Praise you JESUS.

Praise the Lord.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

his love endures forever.

Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord

or fully declare his praise?

Psalm 106:1-2

Mother Mary, pray and intercede for me

 

Dearest Mother Mary, please prayer and intercede to your son Jesus on my behalf. I am currently going through tough and difficult times, especially in desperate need of urgent help my financial. Thing are beyond my control but I believe for your son Jesus there is nothing impossible or beyond Him. I truly praying for a miracle from Jesus through the will of God the Father. Therefore, I implore your intercession for miracle from your son and by the will of the Father, that my petition is heard and answer. I am truly confident as Jesus has always listen to you his beloved mother, may your prayers and intercession for me, be granted a similar miracle like in the wedding of Cana. Whatever may be the will of God the Father through His son JESUS, I say AMEN to it. Mother Mary please PRAY for me and all those who invoke thy aid.

Stabat Mater ~ 13th century Latin hymn to Mother Mary

Latin:

Stabat Mater dolorósa 

Juxta Crucem lacrimósa, 

Dum pendébat Filius.

Cujus ánimam geméntem, 

Contristátam et doléntem, 

Pertransivit gladius.

O quam tristis et afflicta 

Fuit illa benedicta 

Mater Unigéniti!

Quae maerébat, et dolébat, 

Pia Mater, dum vidébat 

Nati poenas inclyti.

Quis est homo, qui non fleret, 

Matrem Christi si vidéret 

In tanto supplicio?

Quis non posset contristári, 

Christi Matrem contemplári 

Doléntem cum Filio?

Pro peccátis suae gentis 

Vidit Jesum in torméntis, 

Et flagéllis súbditum.

Vidit suum dulcem natum 

Moriéndo desolátum, 

Dum emisit spíritum.

Eja mater, fons amóris, 

Me sentíre vim dolóris 

Fac, ut tecum lúgeam.

Fac, ut árdeat cor meum 

In amándo Christum Deum, 

Ut sibi compláceam.

Sancta Mater, istud agas 

Crucifixi fige plagas 

Cordi meo válide.

Tui nati vulneráti, 

Tam dignáti pro me pati, 

Poenas mecum dívide.

Fac me tecum pie flere, 

Crucifixo condolére, 

Donec ego víxero.

Juxta Crucem tecum stare,

Et me tibi sociáre

In planctu desídero.

Virgo vírginum praeclára, 

Mihi jam non sis amára: 

Fac me tecum plángere.

Fac, ut portem Christi mortem, 

Passiónis fac consórtem, 

Et plagas recólere.

Fac me plagis vulnerári, 

Fac me Cruce inebriári, 

Et cruó re Fílii.

Flammis ne urar succénsus, 

Per te, Virgo, sim defénsus 

In die judícii.

Christe, cum sit hinc exíre

Da per Matrem me veníre

Ad palmam victóriae.

Quando corpus moriétur, 

Fac, ut ánimae donétur 

Paradísi glória. Amen. Allelúja.

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English:

At the cross her station keeping, 

Mary stood in sorrow weeping 

When her Son was crucified.

While she waited in her anguish, 

Seeing Christ in torment languish, 

Bitter sorrow pierced her heart.

With what pain and desolation, 

With what noble resignation, 

Mary watched her dying Son.

Ever-patient in her yearning 

Though her tear-filled eyes were burning, 

Mary gazed upon her Son.

Who, that sorrow contemplating, 

On that passion meditating, 

Would not share the Virgin's grief?

Christ she saw, for our salvation, 

Scourged with cruel acclamation, 

Bruised and beaten by the rod.

Christ she saw with life-blood failing, 

All her anguish unavailing, 

Saw him breathe his very last.

Mary, fount of love's devotion, 

Let me share with true emotion 

All the sorrow you endured.

Virgin, ever interceding, 

Hear me in my fervent pleading: 

Fire me with your love of Christ.

Mother, may this prayer be granted:

That Christ's love may be implanted

In the depths of my poor soul.

At the cross, your sorrow sharing, 

All your grief and torment bearing, 

Let me stand and mourn with you.

Fairest maid of all creation, 

Queen of hope and consolation, 

Let me feel your grief sublime.

Virgin, in your love befriend me, 

At the Judgment Day defend me. 

Help me by your constant prayer.

Savior, when my life shall leave me,

Through your mother's prayers

receive me

With the fruits of victory.

Virgin of all virgins blest! 

Listen to my fond request: 

Let me share your grief divine

Let me, to my latest breath, 

In my body bear the death 

Of your dying Son divine.

Wounded with His every wound, 

Steep my soul till it has swooned 

In His very Blood away.

Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, 

Lest in flames I burn and die, 

In His awe-full judgment day.

Savior, when my life shall leave me,

Through your mother's prayers

receive me

With the fruits of victory.

While my body here decays 

May my soul your goodness praise, 

Safe in heaven eternally. Amen Alleluia.

Mother Mary, Our Lady of China, Pray for Us

Holy Mary...Our Lady of China...

protect the Catholics In China

and All who seek 

Your divine prayers and Intercessions.

Amen.

Our Lady of China appeared near Peiping. It stands in a village named Tong Lu. A Poor Mission was started there by the Vincentian Fathers. It was a poor place, perhaps the poorest in the whole region, formerly called "the place of beggars." In 1900, there were some seven hundred Christians gathered about the little hamlet. Suddenly, the famous Boxer rebellion swept China and grew to such proportions, that even small places like Tong Lu could not escape its fury. In April 1900, a force of ten thousand rioters attacked Tong Lu. The soldiers, in senseless rage, started to shoot into the sky. Then suddenly they fled, frightened, and never came back again. According to the legend, a woman in white appeared above the settlement, and the rioters' bullets were aimed at her. When the apparition did not fade, attackers had not even time to reorganize because a strange horseman put them to flight. Soon after they had disappeared beyond the horizon. Father Wu, a Chinese priest, confessed to his flock that he invoked the help of Mary. A new church was built on the site and Father Wu placed a picture of Our Lady on the main altar. He asked the painter to dress Our Lady in the royal robes of the dowager Empress Tzi-Hsi. The image of the Blessed Virgin in the royal robes of the pagan Empress, with the Christ Child on her knees, is vivid expression of Chinese tradition. It is a shrine of the Mother and her Son. Though her robes be pagan, she belongs to every age, to all people and to every race. As was told and promised in the Old Testament: "I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge and of holy hope." 

Prayer to Our Lady of China

Hail, Holy Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

Mother of all nations and all people.

You are the special heavenly Mother of the Chinese people.

Teach us your way of total obedience to God's will.

Help us to live our lives true to our faith.

Fill our hearts with burning love for God and each other.

Stir up in our youth an unconditional giving of self to the service of God.

We call on your powerful intercession for peace, reconciliation and unity among believers

and the conversion of the unbelievers in China and throughout the world,

for God's mercy is our only hope.

Our Lady of China, Mother of Jesus, hear our petitions and pray for us.

Amen.

Prayer Source: Daisy Y.Y. Lin, MD, MPH 

Imprimatur: Bishop William E. Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport Connecticut

Mother Mary, help me especially at the final moments of my life

O my Mother, by the love 

which thou bearest to God, 

I beseech thee, 

to help me at all times, 

but especially 

at the last moments of my life. 

Leave me not, I beseech thee, 

until thou seest me safe in heaven, 

blessing thee and singing 

thy mercy for all eternity.

AMEN.

Mother Mary, I love You

Mother, we put all our trust in you. 

We rely entirely upon you because we love you sincerely.

Teach us to love Jesus and pray for us.

Mother Mary, Intercede and pray for me.

O rich, wise, loving Queen, 

you know better than I do,

what my soul needs. 

You love me even more 

than I love myself. 

I beg you to obtain for me 

the graces my soul needs the most. 

Do this and I will be happy. 

O God, grant me the graces 

that Mary asks for me!

AMEN.

Mother Mary, I offer you all the thoughts, words and actions of my life

Mother - I offer you all 

the thoughts, words and actions 

of my life as so many petitions 

that we all may be devoted to you 

and that after this our exile 

you may show us the blessed Fruit of your womb, Jesus, that together with you 

we may praise Him forever. 

Amen.

Happy Birthday Mother Mary

The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated September 8, falls exactly nine months after the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary as God prepares the way for the birth of Jesus Christ.

"When the holy Virgin was born then the whole world was filled with light."

Mary is the light that announces the radiant Sun of Justice, Jesus our Savior. As we celebrate her birthday we are reminded of her mission in the life of the Church. She is the one who points the way to Christ.

Happy birthday to the greatest, most loving Mother of all!
 Say a "Hail Mary"

Hail Mary, full of grace! 

the Lord is with thee; 

blessed art thou among women, 

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, 

pray for us sinners, now 

and at the hour of our death. 

Amen.