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Father's Reflection 12.3.23
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Happy New Liturgical Year!This is a big week for our parish! We will be consecrating our parishes to Jesus through Mary’s Immaculate Heart at the Masses for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception this Thursday/Friday.It is also a holy day of obligation, so please do be intentional about scheduling around one of these Masses this week:Thurs, Dec 7 5:15pm - Sacred Heart7:00pm - St. JamesFri, Dec 8 6:30am - St. Augustine12:15pm - Sacred HeartProvidentially, a number of other parishes are doing this same thing on the same day, even without us communicating with each other that we were planning to do it!I am confident that this is going to bear so much fruit for our parishes, families, and ourselves: wherever there is renewal in the Church, Mary is always near, pointing us back to Her Son Jesus, especially in His Eucharistic Presence!If you would like to give yourself more fully to Jesus through Mary by doing this consecration also individually, see below the prayer written by Fr. Michael Gaitley from 33 Days to Morning Glory, one of the preparation books for the consecration.It’s going to be a great new liturgical year!Rejoice in hope,Fr. Joel
Morning Glory Consecration PrayerI, _______________, a repentant sinner, renew and ratify today in your hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism. I renounce Satan and resolve to follow Jesus Christ even more closely than before.
Mary, I give you my heart. Please set it on fire with love for Jesus. Make it always attentive to his burning thirst for love and for souls. Keep my heart in your most pure Heart that I may love Jesus and the members of his Body with your own perfect love.
Mary, I entrust myself totally to you: my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions. Please make of me, of all that I am and have, whatever most pleases you. Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for bringing the greatest possible glory to God. If I fall, please lead me back to Jesus. Wash me in the blood and water that flow from his pierced side, and help me never to lose my trust in this fountain of love and mercy.
With you, O Immaculate Mother — you who always do the will of God — I unite myself to the perfect consecration of Jesus as he offers himself in the Spirit to the Father for the life of the world. Amen.