Devotion to the Holy Family, effective devotion

DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FAMILY

Devotion to the Holy Family is a firm, resolute and effective will to do whatever pleases Jesus, Mary and Joseph and to flee what may displease them.

It leads us to know, love and honor in the best possible way the Family of Nazareth to deserve its favors, graces, blessings, patronage, and is therefore the most effective, sweetest and most tender devotion for us.

The most effective devotion

Who ever in heaven and on earth is more powerful than the Holy Family? Jesus Christ-God is omnipotent like the Father. He is the source of all favors, the master of all grace, the giver of every perfect gift; as Man-God he is the lawyer par excellence, who in every moment intercedes for us with God the Father.

Mary and Joseph for the height of their health, for the excellence of their dignity, for the merits they acquired in the perfect fulfillment of their divine mission, for the bonds that bind them to the SS. Trinities, enjoy infinite power of intercession at the throne of the Most High; and Jesus, recognizing in Mary his Mother and in Joseph his custodian, to such intercessors, nothing ever denies.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, masters of the divine graces, can help us in any need, and those who pray to them get tactful and touch with their hands that devotion to the Holy Family is among the most effective, effi-cissimta.

The sweetest devotion

Jesus Christ is our brother, our head, our Savior and our God; He loved us so much that he died on the cross, gave us himself in the Eucharist, left us his Mother as our Mother, destined us as protector his own custodian; and he loves us so much that he is always ready to give us every grace, to obtain every favor from his divine Father, therefore he said: "Everything you ask of the Father in my name, everything will be given to you".

Mary is two cultured Mother: she became such when she gave to the world Jesus, our first-born brother and when he begot us among the sorrows on Calvary. She has a Heart very similar to the Heart of Jesus and loves us immensely.

Great is also the love that Saint Joseph brings us as to brothers of Jesus and to the children of Mary, as to consecrated devotees. And isn't it the sweetest thing to talk to people who love us and who want to do us very well? But who can ever love us and do us more good than Jesus, Mary and Joseph, who love us infinitely and can do everything for us?

The most tender devotion

The most ancient Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph feel all the more tender towards us, the bigger under our spiritual and temporal miseries; in the same way that a mother gets deeper and deeper, the more serious is the danger in which her son is.

The Holy Family not only can and wants to help us, but it is dragged to help us by its tenderness and by the many needs that surround us, because at any moment it sees in us its dear members and children, and sees in what straits and in what dangers we live. Is not this going about Jesus, Mary and Joseph to help us in our many miseries, perhaps not the most tender, the most consoling thing? Yes, in the devotion to the Holy Family, there is truly the balm of comfort and consolation for our hearts!

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH

(Imprimatur + Angelo Comastri, Archbishop of Loreto, 15 August 1997)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, my sweetest loves, I, your little son, dedicate myself totally and forever to you: to you, or Jesus, as my adored and only Lord, to you, or Mary, as my Immaculate and full Mother of grace, to you, O Joseph, as father and guardian of my soul. I give you my will, my freedom and all of myself. You all gave yourself to me, I give myself everything to you. I don't want to be mine anymore, I want to be yours and yours alone.

I want my life to be all yours, with my body and my soul. To you I consecrate all my thoughts, my desires, my affections and I offer you the value of my good present and future works.

Accept the consecration that I make to you: do in me, dispose of me and all my things, as you like. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, give me your hearts, take mine. Join me with the Holy Trinity. Help me to love the Church and the Pope more and more. I love you, I love you. So be it.

CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY FAMILY

(Approved by Pope Alexander VII, 1675)

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, who made up the most chaste, the most perfect, the most Holy Family ever, to be the model of all the others, I (name) in the presence of the Holy Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit and of all the saints and saints of Paradise, today I choose you and the holy angels for my protectors, patrons and lawyers and I give myself and consecrate entirely to you, making a firm resolution and a strong resolution not to never abandon you or allow anything to be said or done against your honor, as far as it is in my power. So I beg you to receive me for your servant, or perpetual servant; assist-fear in all my actions and do not abandon me at the hour of death. Amen.