Family Consecration
What is Family Consecration?
Family Consecration is a commitment to live your baptismal promises with the help of the Holy Family and to set your family apart for God.
Individually and as a family, you entrust yourselves to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
You pledge to model your family after the Holy Family. In return, the Holy Family comes to stay in your home and surround you with their love, protection, and guidance.
Prepare
Family Consecration is a practical way to intentionally live your baptismal promises and grow in union with God, as a family.
Walks you through the basics of Family Consecration using short reflections and family activities. The 7 days of preparation in this book will help you get your hearts ready to receive Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as special guests into your home.
40 days of prayers, readings and meditations taken from St. Louis de Montfort’s and Pope John Paul II’s writings will help you and your family prepare for the great day of your Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary in union with St. Joseph and will teach you how to live it.
Make
The act of Family Consecration is a deliberate choice to follow Jesus Christ more fully
Prayer of Consecration
TO THE HOLY FAMILY
Lord Jesus, Your hidden years with Your Blessed Mother and St. Joseph at Nazareth showed us the beauty of the community of life and love that the family is meant to be. You taught us the value of selfless love, humble obedience, and silent sacrifice. You showed us how to sanctify the daily give-and-take of family life.
Today, we, the members of the ____________ family, publicly acknowledge You, Jesus, as the true Head of our family and the King of our home. We renew and ratify today, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, the vows of our baptism. We renounce Satan and resolve to follow You even more closely than before.
We consecrate to you, O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, our work, our play, our sorrows, and our joys, along with our interior and exterior possessions, including the value of our good actions—past, present, and future. Please magnify our humble offerings and present them to Jesus as your own.
We also consecrate ourselves to you, dear St. Joseph, head of the Holy Family. In faithful imitation of Jesus and Mary, we place ourselves and all our concerns under your care and protection. To you, after Jesus and Mary, we consecrate our bodies and souls, with all their faculties, our spiritual growth, our home, and all our affairs and undertakings.
This is the covenant we make with you, most Holy Family. We desire to live our lives in close communion with you as your consecrated children and faithful servants. We pledge to model our family after you, O Holy Family of Nazareth.
In return, most Holy Family, we ask you to bless and protect us. Keep us ever faithful to this covenant. Help us to sanctify our lives and family by faithfully fulfilling the responsibility of each present moment, for the glory of God and the good of others.
Jesus, King of Families, come and reign over our family!
Mary, Queen of Families, take possession of our hearts!
St. Joseph, Protector of Families, help us live in and reflect the love of the Holy Family!
Amen.
Live
Taking the Holy Family as your model, each family member seeks to lead a life that gives glory to God
SEVEN KEYS TO GOD-CENTERED FAMILY LIVING
Prayer Life
Daily prayer helps each family member to build their personal relationship with God and more deeply embrace their identity as His child. Family members should pray together and individually.
Sacramental Life
The sacraments give special grace to grow in holiness and union with God. Going to Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, and Confession often—to increase in the life of grace and to worship Our Eucharistic Lord in union with the whole Church.
Learning the Faith
Learning the truths of the Catholic Faith helps families to grow in love of God. Knowledge of the Faith also protects families from the false values of the world and equips them to more confidently defend, live, and share the Faith with others.
Living the Virtues
Families are empowered to live a life of virtue through the graces they receive through prayer, the sacraments, and learning the Faith. As they grow in faith, hope, and love, families are led to greater unity, peace, and freedom.
Serving Others
Serving others, both in the home and outside the home, is one of the best ways families can express their faith and love for God. By putting their love for each other and those around them into action, families satisfy Jesus’ thirst for love.
Sharing the Faith
Families that have deepened their union with God are inspired to evangelize by leading others to an encounter with Jesus. Sharing the Faith can take many forms, such as sharing one’s testimony, opening up the home to others, and treating everyone with charity.
Sanctifying Daily Duties
By embracing and joyfully offering the present moment to God, each family member can sanctify their daily duties and help to repair for sin. That way, when confronted with trials or difficulties, the family can remain at peace, recognizing that everything is either willed or permitted by God and that He draws good out of everything.
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