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A Litany for Christian Mothers

July 27, 2023 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Holy Family, Home Education, Homeschooling, Homeschooling Novena, Mom, Mother Love, Motherhood Leave a Comment

This is a prayer to patrons of mothers on Day Six of the Home Education. #hsnovena

It is adapted from #MotherLoveAManualforChristianMothers by Pius Franciscus OFM, Cap (1888).

Invocation of a Mother’s Friends

A litany to some of the special patrons of Christian Mothers

Lord, have mercy!

Christ, have mercy!

Lord, have mercy!

Christ, hear me.

Christ, graciously hear me.

God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on me.

God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on me. God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on me.

Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on me.

Holy Mary, …pray for me and for my children. Holy Mother of God, …

Mother of Sorrows, …

Holy Guardian Angels, …

Our loving Guides and Companions, …

Our true friends, our protectors of body and soul, …

St. Joachim, affectionate father and wise ruler of your family, …

St. Joseph, virginal spouse of Mary and foster father of Jesus, …

St. John the Baptist, model of mortification from infancy, Precursor and preparer of the way for Jesus Christ, …

St. John the Evangelist, beloved disciple of our Lord, Protector and adopted son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, …

St. Augustine, enlightened Bishop and Doctor, filled with the love of God,…

St. Aloysius, angel in the flesh, and great penitent, …

St. Anne, pius and diligent wife, mother of Mary conceived without sin, …

St. Elizabeth, God-loving mother of St. John the Baptist, …

St. Rose of Lima, humble and dutiful daughter, America’s powerful patroness, …

St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine and prayerful wife, who converted her pagan spouse, …

St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Christian wife and widow, mother of the poor, …

All you holy spouses, …

All you holy widowers and widows, …

All you holy parents, …

All you holy children, …

That they may preserve their baptismal innocence, pray for them.

That they may truly grieve over sin, pray for them.

That they may persevere in virtue, pray for them.

That they may die a happy death, pray for them.

That they may attain eternal happiness, pray for them.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Spare me, O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Graciously hear me, O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on me O Lord.

Christ, hear me.

Christ, graciously hear me. Lord, have mercy on me. Lord, have mercy on me.

Let us Pray

O God, who has given me the holy parents and children of heaven as models and intercessors, grant, I beseech Thee, that I may follow their example, persevere in good by the help of their prayers, and enjoy their company eternally in heaven.

Teach me, a parent, O Lord, to be a model for my children in word and example, that they may see in my actions what they are taught by my words.

Graciously look down, O Lord, on our family. Fill its members with Your choicest blessings, that, united in faith and love, we may become a faithful image of the Holy family of Nazareth.

May Jesus be constantly amongst us, may His holy Mother be our teacher, and Joseph, the blessed foster-father our guide, our protector, and our never failing aid in all things. Grant my petitions, I beseech Thee Almighty Father, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary. Glory Be

Join the spiritual community of mothers in praying this novena for the discernment of God’s Will in our families. HOME EDUCATION NOVENA

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FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY {Holy Family}

January 10, 2021 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 01 January Saints, Holy Family Leave a Comment

In the Introit of the Mass of this day the Church exhorts us to a joyous adoration of Christ by the following words:

INTROIT Upon a high throne I saw a man sitting, whom a multitude of angels adore singing together: behold Him the name of whose empire is to eternity (Is. 6). Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve the Lord with gladness (Ps. 99:2). Glory be to the Father.

COLLECT Attend, O Lord, we beseech Thee, of Thy heavenly mercy, to the desires of Thy suppliant people; and grant that they may both perceive what they ought to do, and may have strength to fulfill the same. Through our Lord.

EPISTLE (Rom. 12:1-5). Brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be reformed in the newness of your mind: that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God. For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behooveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety: and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith. For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another in Christ Jesus our Lord.

EXPLANATION The apostle entreats, even conjures us by all the mercies we have received to bring to God a living sacrifice; namely, the mortification of our carnal desires, and the practice of every virtue, a holy, pure and immaculate sacrifice agreeable to God, intended for His glory alone; not a dead sacrifice as the Jews offered by killing animals, nor an unholy one as the Gentiles offered by polluting their bodies.

This living, holy, God-pleasing sacrifice should be the offering of our body; but this does not exclude the sacrifice of our spirit, because all our actions, the corporal as well as spiritual, should be directed to God, the end for which we were created. The sacrifice of the spirit is made when we overcome pride, anger, impatience, etc., and by avoiding willful distractions during prayer and divine worship. Like David we should have a contrite and humble heart to present to the Lord; this is a most pleasing sacrifice in His eyes, one which He will never despise.

Thus we render a reasonable service, and are, as St. Peter says (I Pet 2:9), a kingly priesthood, because we govern, like kings, our evil inclinations, and offer with body and soul a continual sacrifice to God. The apostle further exhorts us not to become like the world, that is, not to follow the corrupt manners and principles of the children of the world; not to desire those things at which the world aims; not to love that which the world loves; not to act as the world acts; but rather seek constantly to change our evil disposition, by combating our corrupt and evil inclinations and by practicing virtue instead.

We must cease to be the old worldly man, and become a new heavenly man; to be such, we must carefully seek to know in all things what is pleasing to God, and therefore perfect and good. This is the necessary science to which St. Paul alludes, when he says that we should not wish to know more than is proper. All worldly arts and sciences will not help us to gain heaven, if we do not endeavor to learn thoroughly that which faith teaches, and what God demands.

Even if we have made great progress in this holy science we should not presume to think more of ourselves than what we really are, nor violate charity by contempt of others less instructed, for God gives to every one, in some measure, the gift of faith. This gift of faith we should use in order to continually glorify the body of Christ, His Church, Whose members we are, and enable us to lead such a life that others, being edified, may be brought into the true fold.

ASPIRATION Grant, O Jesus, that by mortification, humility, and contrition, I may offer my body and my soul as a living, holy, and pleasing sacrifice to Thee, and that I may never defile them by impurities.

GOSPEL (Lk. 2:42-52). And when Jesus was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not. And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day’s journey, and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance. And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his answers. And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did ye not know that I must be about my Father’s business? And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wis­dom, and age, and grace with God and men.


Why did our Savior go with His parents to Jerusalem to the temple?

Because God commanded (Deut. 16:16) that all the male Israelites should appear, three times a year on certain festivals, and offer sacrifice to Him in the temple; Jesus fulfilled this commandment to set us an example that we, according to the will of the holy Catholic Church, should willingly and devoutly be present at the services of the Church on Sundays and holydays of obligation. Neither the distance from the church nor the difficulties of the way should prevent our attendance, since Jesus did not shun a three days’ journey to the temple.

Why does the gospel say according to the custom of the feast?

That we may understand, that like Mary and Joseph, we should be punctual in observing the ecclesiastical festivals and holy usages, and like true Catholics, should observe them. Parents should require their children at an early age to take part in prayer, attend church and school, and see that they conduct themselves quietly and reverently while there. Mary and Joseph took the holy Child Jesus with them to the temple.

Why did the child Jesus remain in Jerusalem?

Because of His love of prayer and communion with His Heavenly Father, and to show, even then, some rays of His divinity, by which to make known that He had come for the glory of His Father, and to procure our salvation. The glory of God and the salvation of our souls should be our chief object in life.

Why did Mary and Joseph search so diligently for Jesus?

Because they were fearful lest they should lose Him Whom they loved so exceedingly. We should learn from this, how careful we should be not to lose Jesus by sin, or having lost Him, how anxiously we should seek by penance to find Him. The parents of Jesus, by their diligent search and inquiries for the divine Infant, teach and rebuke those parents who care less for the Christian education of their children than for their temporal advantages, who pay no attention to the persons with whom their children associate, nor to the places which they frequent, whether they learn things that are useful to them, and who for the sake of some temporal advantage permit their children sinful intimacy with evil-minded persons. From these parents God will one day demand the souls of their children with severest justice.

Why was our Savior found in the temple in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions?

To teach us that we ought to seek the knowledge necessary for our salvation, and attend carefully to the sermons and instructions on Christian doctrine; we should by no means be ashamed to ask questions of our pastors when we are in doubt, and should listen to their answers. Was Christ, the Eternal Wisdom, ashamed to ask questions and to answer? Why should we ignorant people hesitate? It is much to be regretted that persons who have many important things concerning their spiritual welfare on their minds, through pride and false shame, would rather go to perdition than ask advice, solely for fear of showing their ignorance.

Why did Mary say: Son, why hast thou done so to us?

These words were forced from her by pain at the absence of her Son, Whom she loved above all things, and not by indignation, for He was blameless. Mary’s conduct should teach parents to remember their duty of caring for their children, and punish them when they do wrong.

INSTRUCTION ON THE VIRTUE OF OBEDIENCE

He was subject to them (Lk. 2:51).

From this all Christians should learn to be obedient to the commandments of God and of the Church. God has united life or death, blessing or malediction with obedience or disobedience to His commandments, and the Bible (I Kings 15:22) shows that obedience pleases God more than sacrifices or the fat of rams, and that He despises disobedience as He does witchcraft and idolatry. We must be obedient to the Church, because Christ Himself with His holy Spirit lives in her, and governs her, and has said: Who hears not the Church, let him be to thee a heathen and a publican, therefore, shut out from eternal life. We must be obedient to our parents, because they are placed over us by God, and we are indebted to them, under Him, for life and many benefits. Those children who do not assist their parents when they are old, poor, and helpless, or are ashamed of them, have reason to be afraid, since even Christ Jesus, the God-Man, was obedient and subject in all things to His poor mother, and to a humble mechanic who was only His foster-father. Cursed be he that honoreth not his father and mother (Deut. 27:16); how much more cursed those who despise, deride and abandon their parents? Their eyes will one day be picked out by ravens (Prov. 30:17). If God commanded obstinate and disobedient children to be stoned (Dent. 21:20), what do those not deserve who even strike or abuse their parents?

How did Jesus advance in age, wisdom and grace?

He showed new effects of the wisdom and grace with which He was filled, as He advanced in years, and thus teaches us to progress the more in virtue, and fulfill the duties of our state in life that we may attain perfection hereafter.

ASPIRATION Most amiable Jesus! Who in the twelfth year of Thy age, didst permit Thyself to be found in the temple by Thy parents, and, as an example for us, wast humbly obedient to them, grant that we may diligently attend to the important affair of our salvation, willingly carry the yoke of Thy law from our youth, and be always obedient to the laws of Thy Church, to our parents, and superiors. Prevent uneducated youth from growing reckless, and preserve them from a scandalous life. Give parents wisdom and grace to educate their children according to Thy will in all virtue. Grant to us all, that we may never lose Thee by sin, or if we have lost Thee, anxiously to seek Thee, happily find Thee, and with Thy grace more and more increase in wisdom and in virtue. Amen.

TRUE PIETY

They found Him in the temple (Lk. 2:46).

Many people deceive themselves in regard to true piety, because their imagination represents it to them according to the effect produced by their passions or disposition of mind. He who fasts often and willingly believes that he is pious, though in his heart he nourishes a secret hatred, and while he fears to wet the tip of his tongue with wine, even with water, lest he should not live temperately enough, finds pleasure in detraction and slander, that unquenchable thirst for the blood of his neighbor. Another, because he is accustomed daily to recite a long string of prayers, esteems himself pious, though he gives vent afterwards to haughty, bitter, offensive language, hurting people at home and abroad. Another keeps his purse open for the poor, but keeps his heart ever closed to the love of his enemy, whom he will not forgive; another forgives his enemy with all his heart, but will not pay his creditors, until forced by law. All these think themselves pious, and are perhaps so regarded by the world, but in truth they are far from being pious. In what then does true piety consist? In the perfect love of God. This love is called the beautiful love, because it is the ornament of the soul, and attracts to itself with complacency the eyes of the Divine Majesty. When it strengthens us to do good, it is called the strong love; when it causes us to do that good quickly, carefully, and repeatedly, it is called piety. The ostrich has wings, it is true, but never uses them to fly; the chickens fly heavily and not high; but the eagles, the doves, and the swallows, fly high and swiftly, and do not easily tire. The sinners are but earthly people, they creep upon the ground; the just, who are still imperfect, rise, it is true, towards heaven but seldom, and then but slowly and heavily. But there are some, true, pious souls, who like the doves and the eagles soar high on strong, swift wings to God. In a word, piety is nothing else than a certain active, swift energy of the spirit, with which the strong love in us, or we with it, performs, as far as it is possible to us, all good. As the strong love urges us to keep God’s commandments, the perfect love, that is, piety, urges us to keep them carefully and with all possible zeal.

No one is just or pious who does not keep all God’s commandments without exception; for, to be just we must possess the strong love, and to be pious we must possess besides, a certain eagerness to profit by all the occasions of doing good, that present themselves. Thus St. Francis de Sales writes in his Philothea, from which it is seen that true piety consists not in special devotions, or the practice of special good works, but in the zealous, earnest, continuous obedi­ence to the commandments and performance of duty for the love of God.

Sancta Familia

January 12, 2020 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 01 January Saints, Holy Family Leave a Comment

“And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth: and was subject to them”

The feast of the Holy Family commemorates the household life of the Child Jesus, His Blessed Virgin Mother and Foster-Father, and presents some familial lessons that never cease in application throughout the year. 

Below is a brief explanation of the feast’s history from the Roman Catholic Daily Missal and some excerpts from Dom Prosper Gueranger’s, The Liturgical Year.


The origins of the Feast of the Holy Family

The special devotion which sets forth the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the model of virtue for all Christian households began in the 17th century. It commenced almost simultaneously in Canada and France: the Association of the Holy Family being founded in Montreal in 1663, and the Daughters of the Holy Family in Paris in 1674.

Numerous other congregations and associations under the patronage of the Holy Family have been established since that time, and they are spread over the world. The archconfraternity was established by Pius IX in 1847. In 1893 Leo XIII approved a feast for Canada, and Benedict XV extended the Feast of the Holy Family to the whole Church and ordered its celebration to take place on the Sunday after the Epiphahy.


From Dom Gueranger

On the Mass propers

GOSPEL (Lk.2:42-52) When Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast; and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the Child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not. And thinking that He was in the company, they came a day’s journey, and sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And not finding Him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking Him.

And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His wisdom and His answers.

And seeing Him, they wondered. And His Mother said to Him: Son, why hast Thou done so to us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing. And He said to them: How is it that you sought Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business? And they understood not the word that He spoke unto them.

And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His Mother kept all these words in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and men.

ASPIRATION Thus, O Jesus! — didst Thou come down from Heaven to teach us. The tender age of Childhood, which Thou didst take upon Thyself, is no hindrance to the ardor of Thy desire that we should know the one only God, Who made all things, and Thee, His Son, Whom He sent to us. When laid in the Crib, Thou didst instruct the Shepherds by a mere look; when swathed in Thy humble swaddling-clothes, and subjected to the voluntary silence thou hadst imposed on Thyself, Thou didst reveal to the Magi the light they sought in following the star.

When twelve years old, Thou explainest to the Doctors of Israel the Scriptures which bear testimony to Thee. Thou gradually dispellest the shadows of the Law by Thy presence and Thy words. In order to fulfill the commands of Thy heavenly Father, Thou dost not hesitate to occasion sorrow to the heart of Thy Mother, by thus going in quest of souls that need enlightening. Thy love of man will pierce that tender Heart of Mary with a still sharper sword, when she shall behold Thee hanging on the Cross, and expiring in the midst of cruelest pain.

Blessed be Thou, sweet Jesus, in these first Mysteries of Thine Infancy, wherein Thou already showest Thyself devoted to us, and leavest the company of Thy Blessed Mother for that of sinful men, who will one day conspire thy Death.

COMMENT The Offertory takes us through the Feast of the Purification; let us again offer ourselves to the Lord.

OFFERTORY (Lk. 2:22) The parents of Jesus carried Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord.

COMMENT In the Secret the Church again prays that she may be strengthened in peace and grace; these gifts have been purchased for us by our Lord Himself; it is through the Holy Mass that we can be more strongly established in them.

SECRET We offer to thee, O Lord, an atoning Victim, humbly entreating that through the intercession of the Virgin Mother of God and blessed Joseph, Thou wouldst strongly establish our families in Thy peace and grace. Through the same Lord.

COMMUNION (Lk. 2:51) And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them.

LESSON If we have kept before our eyes the example of the Holy Family, we may humbly trust that at the hour of our death we shall be helped and consoled and be found worthy to have fellowship with Christ in the eternal dwellings. Such is the last prayer of the Church, and may it be one we love to repeat and dwell on.


Hymn from the Office of II Vespers

Blest light of all the heavenly hosts,
Sole hope of them that dwell on earth,
The purest love that ever graced
A home, did smile upon Thy birth.

Mary, dear Mother, who but thee
Was ever yet so rich in grace?
Didst nourish Christ upon thy knee
And fold Him in a sweet embrace?

And Joseph, chosen out to guard
The Virgin with thy gentle might,
The Infant Jesus smiled on thee
And called thee father as by right.

You, Who to save a guilty race
Were born of David’s noble line,
O hear the humble prayers of all
Today, who gather round Your shrine.

The sun now wends his way to rest
And earth is veiled in shadows gray;
Yet hearts a-fire with joy and love
Still bid us linger on to pray.

O may the grace of that sweet home
Which held the earthly Trinity,
Be shed abroad upon the world
And bless the Christian family.

O Jesus, born of Virgin bright,
Immortal glory be to Thee;
Praise to the Father infinite
And Holy Ghost eternally. Amen.

V. I will make all thy children to be taught of the Lord.
R. And great the peace of thy children.


O Most Holy Family: Jesus, Mary & Joseph

O Holy Family—
Guardian of virgins,
Virgin of virgins,
Virgin-Birth—
image of the
Holy Trinity
here on earth;
model of
charity, chastity,
humility, modesty,
poverty, sanctity;
three-in-One,
One-in-three,
O most Holy Family…
Jesus, Mary, Joseph:
grant us,
we beseech thee
to live our lives
in unity,
that is…

Charity,
the bond of
perfection,[1]
with all
simplicity,
and meekness of heart,[2]
in humble subjection
to the will of God[3]

Instill in us
a meek and humble attitude;
Help us to live a life
of rectitude and gratitude,
a life founded, grounded
on the beatitudes,[4]
in all plenitude…
full of grace and truth[5]

Help us to crucify
our selfish self-love,[6]
that we may love others,
and God above,
with perfect charity;
For, these commandments
form the greatest two,[7]
they encapsulate all;
For, the love of God
and neighbor
is the fulfilling of the law[8]

Guide us along the
path of purgation;
enlighten us with
thine illumination,
that we may grow
to the age of perfection,[9]
and attain our
final destination…
the state of Divine affiliation;[10]
we, lowly, sinful creatures,
called to be partakers
of the Divine nature[11]

For, to this,
we are called,
in imitation of thee…
holiness,[12]
sanctity[13]…
without which,
God…
we shall not see[14]


Footnotes

  • 1 Colossians 3:14.
  • 2 Matthew 5:4, 11:29.
  • 3 Matthew 1:24, 12: 50, 26:39, 42;  Luke 1:38;  John 4:34, 8:29;  Hebrews 10:7; Psalm 39:8-9.
  • 4 Matthew 5:3-10.
  • 5 John 1:14.
  • 6 Colossians 3:5-9; Ephesians 4:22, 25.
  • 7 Matthew 22:35-40; Mark 12:28-31;  John 13:34-35.
  • 8 Romans 13:8, 10.
  • 9 Ephesians 4:13; Colossians 1:28.
  • 10 1 John 3:1-2.
  • 11 2 Peter 1:4.
  • 12 Leviticus 11:44, 46, 19:2, 20:7;  Ephesians 1:4, 4:24; 1 Peter 1:15-16.
  • 13 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7; 1 John 3:3.
  • 14 Hebrews 12:14.

The Feast of the Holy Family

January 12, 2019 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 01 January Saints, Holy Family Leave a Comment

Per the traditional liturgical calendar, the first Sunday after Epiphany Day is designated as the Feast of the Holy Family. This feast commemorates the household life of the Child Jesus, His Blessed Virgin Mother and Foster-Father. The feast presents some familial lessons that never cease in application throughout the year. Here are remarks from Pope Leo XIII:
 

Is it not fitting to celebrate the royal birth of the Son of the supreme Father, of the house of David and the glorious names of that ancient line? Yet it is more consoling for us to call to memory the little house at Nazareth and the humble life lived there; thus celebrating the hidden life of our Lord. For there the divine Child received his training in Joseph’s humble trade; there hidden and sheltered, He grew up and showed Himself ready to share the toil of a carpenter’s life. ‘Let the moisture,’ he seemed to say, ‘trickle over my limbs before they are drenched with the torrent of my blood, and the pain of this labor shall go to atone for the sins of men.’ Close to the divine Child is His tender Mother; close to Joseph stands his devoted wife, happy to relieve their toil and suffering by her loving care: O Thou, who wast not free from toil and care and who hast known adversity, come to the aid of the unfortunate, crippled by poverty and struggling against the difficulties of life.”

The special devotion which proposes the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the model of virtue of all Christian households began in the XVIIth century. It started almost simultaneously in Canada and France. — The Association of the Holy Family being founded in Montreal in 1663, and the Daughters of the Holy Family in Paris in 1674. Numerous other congregations and associations under the Patronage of the Holy Family have been established, since that time, and they are spread over the world. The Archconfraternity was established by Pius IX in 1847. In 1893 Leo XIII approved a feast for Canada, and Pope Benedict XV extended the Feast of the Holy Family to the whole Church and ordered its celebration to be kept on the Sunday after the Epiphany.

Prayer to the Holy Family

This prayer is taken from Prayer Book for Religious, compiled by Fr. F. X. Lasance, S.J. (Benziger Brothers, 1904)

O most loving Jesus, Who by Thy sublime and beautiful virtues of humility, obedience, poverty, modesty, charity, patience and gentleness, and by the example of Thy domestic life, didst bless with peace and happiness the family Thou didst choose on earth, in Thy clemency look down upon this household, humbly prostrate before Thee and imploring Thy mercy. Remember that this family belongs to Thee; for to Thee we have in a special way dedicated and devoted ourselves. Look upon us in Thy loving kindness; preserve us from danger; give us help in time of need, and grant us the grace to persevere to the end in the imitation of Thy Holy Family; that having revered Thee and loved Thee faithfully on earth, we may bless and praise Thee eternally in heaven. 

O Mary, most sweet Mother, to thy intercession we have recourse, knowing that thy Divine Son will hear thy prayers. 

And do thou, O glorious Patriarch, St. Joseph, assist us by thy powerful mediation, and offer, by the hands of Mary, our prayers to Jesus. Amen. 

Sancta Familia ~ ora pro nobis


Holy Family of Nazareth

January 10, 2016 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 01 January, 01 January Saints, Holy Family, Patron Saint, Prayer, Prayer for Families, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The Holy Family is our model.  We have consecrated our family to the Holy Family and continue to seek their intercession.  This is our family prayer….

Heavenly Father, you have given us the Holy Family - First Suday after Epiphanymodel of life in the Holy Family of Nazareth.  Help us, O Loving Father,to make our family another Nazareth where love, peace and joy reign.

May it be deeply contemplative, intensely Eucharistic, revived with joy.  Help us to stay together in joy and sorrow in family prayer.

Teach us to see Jesus in the members of our families, especially in their distressing disguise.

May the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus make our hearts humble like his and help us to carry out our family duties in a holy way.

May we love one another as God loves each one of us, more and more each day, and forgive each other’s faults as you forgive our sins.

Help us, O Loving Father, to take whatever you give and give whatever you take with a big smile.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
Holy Guardian Angels, be always with us, guide and protect us.

Amen.

~ Bl.  Mother Teresa’s Prayer for Families

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Resources:

  • First Sunday After Epiphany – The Church’s Year, Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine’s
  • Sermons on the Holy Family – Audio Sancto
    • Learning from the Holy Family: How to Grow in Virtue
      The Holy Family: The Example for all Virtues
      Raising a Holy Family Amid the Culture of Death
      Be Holy As The Holy Family Is Holy
      The Holy Family Compared to Adam and Eve
      The Errors of Russia: the Plan of Heaven — Model the Holy Family
      Feminism: The Demeaning of the Holy Family
  • Novena to the Holy Family – EWTN
  • Consecration of the Family to the Holy Family – Catholic Culture
  • Papal Documents on the Family
  • The Blessed Virgin and the Sanctification of the Family – Father John A. Hardon, S.J.*
  • Rules for Catholic Family Life – The Gregorian Blog*
  • Holy Family Holy Card Collection – Holy Card Heaven
  • Holy Family Coloring Page – JOYfilledfamily
  • Holy Family Printable – Making Music Praying Twice
  • Prayer for Families Printable – JOYfilledfamily

 

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