Consecrate your Family to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

L. O most sweet Hearts of Jesus and Mary, * to you we consecrate our family and all our possessions. We desire our home to be your little Kingdom, * a Kingdom of peace, of truth and love. A. By your sanctification of family life at Nazareth, * you have clearly indicated * the kind of families that are pleasing to you. Your home was a home of prayer, * of love, of patient endurance, and of toil. It was a home in which reigned zeal to make progress in virtue, * in the knowledge of sacred things * and in grace.

L. It is our earnest wish to model our home upon yours at Nazareth. A. Remain with us, O sweet Hearts of Jesus and Mary, * so that with your help the purity of our morals may be preserved, * that we may obey the commandments of God and of the Church, sanctify Sundays and holydays, * practice the Rosary devotion, * foster religious instruction in our home, * and receive the holy sacraments frequently; * all this we wish to pledge to your most loving Hearts, O Jesus and Mary! 

L. And do you, on your part, console us in our troubles. A. Help us to preserve the innocence of our little ones, * enlighten and strengthen our growing sons and daughters * in the choice of their vocations, * assist us all at the hour of death, * and afterwards receive us into heaven, * to be united with each other and with you for all eternity. Amen.

Father Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D. Booklet