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MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
Consecration of the home
to Our Lady Help of Christians
Most holy Virgin Mary, appointed by God to be the Help of Christians, we choose you as the Mother and protectress of our home. We ask you to favour us with your powerful protection. Preserve our home from every danger, from fire, flood, lightning, storm, earthquake, thieves, vandals, and from every other danger. Bless us, protect us, defend us, keep as your own all the people who dwell in this home: protect them from all accidents and misfortunes, but above of all obtain for them the most important grace of avoiding sin. Mary help of Christians pray for all those- who live in this home which is consecrated to you for all time. Amen
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
“Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there is hatred let me bring your love,
Where there is injury your pardon Lord,
And where there’s doubt true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace,
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.
O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
O Master grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
And to love as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive.
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
Make me a channel of your peace.
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity,
to accept, the things I cannot change;
courage, to change the things I can;
and wisdom, to know the difference.
Living, one day at a time;
enjoying, one moment at a time;
accepting, hardships, as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting, that He will make all things right,
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him
forever, in the next.
Amen.