Monthly Prayers and Resources for St. Luke's Domestic Churches

Heavenly Father, we ask You to bless our family.

 

Open our hearts to receive Your love.  May our home be another Nazareth,

so that our family may be a place where Your peace and love abides.

 

Open our eyes to recognize the gift and beauty of life,

so that we may find joy in Your presence among us.

 

Grant us pure hearts seeking holiness, generous hearts full of Your love,

merciful hearts ready to forgive and tender hearts full of kindness.

 

May our family be a sanctuary of life and love,

a beacon of hope

drawing others to your Son, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

 

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Holy Family of Nazareth, pray for us.

-from Aleteia.Org Prayer to the Holy Family of Nazareth

"Immaculate Mary, your praises we sing!" December 8th is one of our feasts celebrating Mary - the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
From the beginnings of the Church, spiritual writers and theologians have acknowledged the innocence and holiness of Mary.
St. Irenaeus called her the "new Eve."  Both faced with the pure freedom to accept or reject God, Mary began with work of redemption with her yes to Christ!
The Church began to celebrate the feast of Mary's conception in the early Middle Ages.
In 1854, Pope Pius IX infallibly declared that Mary was free of original sin from the first moment of her conception.
On this feast day, we celebrate the beauty and goodness of Our Lady!