A Prayer for our Family
Here is a post from Amando:
I would like to share with and offer a prayer for all the Borromeo clan families from the prayer book of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. This magnificent Shrine which we recently visited in Washington, D.C., is the Patronal Church of U.S. Catholics and America's preeminent Marian Shrine. It stands adjacent to the Catholic University of America campus. I thought it is fitting that we kick off the Borrometer Online as a clan project with a prayer for each of its families wherever they may be.
PRAYER FOR A FAMILY
O dear Jesus,
I humbly implore You to grant Your special graces
to our family. May our home be the shrine of
peace, purity, love,labor and faith. I beg You,
dear Jesus, to protect and bless all of us, absent
and present, living and dead.
O Mary, loving Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, pray to
Jesus for ourfamily, for all the families of the
world, to guard the cradle of the newborn, the
schools of the young and their vocations.
Blessed Saint Joseph,
holy guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your
prayers in all necessities of life. Ask Jesus that
special grace which He granted to you, to watch
over our home, at the pillow of the sick and the
dying, so that with Mary and with you, heaven
may find our family unbroken in the Sacred Heart
of Jesus. Amen.
A history about the Shrine (from its information pamphlet):
In 1847, at the petition of the United States Catholic Bishops, Pope Pius IX named the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of her Immaculate Conception, Patroness of the United States. In 1913, Bishop Thomas Shahan, Rector of the Catholic University of America, presented to Pope Pius X a plan to build a shrine to Mary. The pope gave not only his enthusiastic support, but a $400 personal contribution as well.
Designs were soon completed and on September 23, 1920, James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, laid the cornerstone. The (lower) Crypt Church was completed in 1926 and has been in continuous use ever since. The Great Depression and Second World War delayed construction of the Upper Church until the 1950s, when the nation's bishops renewed the effort to complete the project under the direction of Msgr. Thomas Grady.
Catholics throughout the country responded overwhelmingly to a national fundraising effort, and construction resumed during the Marian Year of 1954. The Shrine's solemn dedication Mass took place November 20, 1959, and Pope John Paul II gave it the papal honor and the title "Basilica" on October 12, 1990.
A pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception should be one of the highlights during a visit in Washington, D.C.
In 1847, at the petition of the United States Catholic Bishops, Pope Pius IX named the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of her Immaculate Conception, Patroness of the United States. In 1913, Bishop Thomas Shahan, Rector of the Catholic University of America, presented to Pope Pius X a plan to build a shrine to Mary. The pope gave not only his enthusiastic support, but a $400 personal contribution as well.
Designs were soon completed and on September 23, 1920, James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, laid the cornerstone. The (lower) Crypt Church was completed in 1926 and has been in continuous use ever since. The Great Depression and Second World War delayed construction of the Upper Church until the 1950s, when the nation's bishops renewed the effort to complete the project under the direction of Msgr. Thomas Grady.
Catholics throughout the country responded overwhelmingly to a national fundraising effort, and construction resumed during the Marian Year of 1954. The Shrine's solemn dedication Mass took place November 20, 1959, and Pope John Paul II gave it the papal honor and the title "Basilica" on October 12, 1990.
A pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception should be one of the highlights during a visit in Washington, D.C.
Written by Amando Guilatco
Pleasant Hill, California
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