Fatima Family » Consecration to Our Lady of Fatima http://www.fatimafamily.org Wed, 15 May 2013 16:09:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Business of Family-by John C. Preiss http://www.fatimafamily.org/the-business-of-family/ http://www.fatimafamily.org/the-business-of-family/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:51:34 +0000 admin http://fatimafamily.org/?p=124 It is very important that we teach our children at an early age about finances. I have written before on finances for children but this article is a bit different.
The business of family can mold together a family and help a family grow for a common purpose. I am not only the Executive Director for the Fatima Family Aposolate International but I also have rental property and a construction business. On top of all of this my wife sews and sells veils and mantillas online. As you can see my family is very much in the family business. I often think about the future and have come to the realization that my children will have many opportunities to be creative and to grow these businesses from their mother and father. Many children in the world have similar opportunities but they lack the Christian perspective behind it. In order for children to come into a family business, communication is key. We must give them a reason and a value to be apart of theses businesses. We all have experienced situations from friends and other family members for example; a son will inherit a business that has been up and running for thirty years and when he takes over the reigns in a matter of 3 years the business is closed. Why does this happen? First, because his father did not teach him how to be successful. Second he did not learn how to handle financial situations properly.
With this said we should still encourage or children into our businesses. If they honestly do not want to be apart of it because they want to be a Doctor, Lawyer or Priest that is understandable. We must not force them into the business but we must explain to them the value of carrying on the family business.
Another problem that exists in family businesses is that the parents may take advantage of the labor of the children and not pay them like a employee should be paid and this is wrong. Christianity must be a vital part of any business and this practice must be formed in the children.
I am filled with excitement for my children because I realize the opportunities they will have in the future. They will be taught honesty, compassion and charity and hopefully they will teach this to their children and their childrens children.

]]> http://www.fatimafamily.org/the-business-of-family/feed/ 0 ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY http://www.fatimafamily.org/act-of-consecration-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary/ http://www.fatimafamily.org/act-of-consecration-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:05:31 +0000 admin http://fatimafamily.org/?p=101 Any formula may be used to consecrate oneself to the Mother of God, as long as it involves a total oblation of oneself. As a suggestion, one of the following consecrations could be renewed each first Saturday with the shorter formula renewed daily.

1.0 Virgin Mary, most powerful Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and earth, in accordance with your wish made known at Fatima, I consecrate myself today to your Immaculate Heart. To you I entrust all that I have, all that I am. Reign over me, dearest Mother, that I may be yours in prosperity, in adversity, in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness, in life and in death.

Most compassionate Heart of Mary, Queen of Virgins, watch over my mind and heart and preserve me from the deluge of impurity which you lamented so sorrowfully at Fatima. I want to be pure like you. I want to atone for the many crimes committed against Jesus and you. I want to call down upon this country and the whole world the peace of God in justice and charity.

Mindful of this consecration, I now promise to strive to imitate you by the practice of the Christian virtues without regard for human respect. I resolve to receive Holy Communion on the first Saturday of every month when possible, and to offer daily five decades of the Rosary, with all my sacrifices in the spirit of penance and reparation. Amen.

2.I, . . ., a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy Heart, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, in the presence of all the heavenly court, I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, and to thy Immaculate Heart, as thy child and slave of love, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.

Short daily renewal of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, I renew my consecration to you and to your Immaculate Heart. Please accept me, my dear Mother, and use me as you wish to accomplish your designs upon the world. I am all yours, my Mother, my Queen, and all that I have is yours.

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