Three Salutations to Mary (Consecration)

[Shin]

Three Salutation to Mary
Consecration to Mary
from Our Lady Book and the Manual of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin

I.

Daughter of God the Father,
O Virgin pure and mild;
I venerate and love thee,
Accept me for thy child;
My soul and all its powers
I consecrate to thee;
Be pleas'd, most holy Mother,
From sin to keep me free.

Be pleased, most holy Mother,
To pray our Lord for me.

II.

Mother of our Redeemer,
O Virgin pure and mild ;
I venerate and love thee,
Accept me for thy child ;
My body and its senses
I consecrate to thee;
Be pleas'd, most holy Mother,
From sin to keep me free.

Be pleased, most holy Mother,
To pray our Lord for me.

III.

Spouse of the Holy Spirit,
O Virgin, pure and mild ;
I venerate and love thee,
Accept me for thy child,
My heart and its affections
I consecrate to thee;
Be pleas'd, most holy Mother,
From sin to keep me free.

Be pleased, most holy Mother,
To pray our Lord for me.

[Shin]

Amen.

There should be some more rare treasure of Our Lady's arriving over the next few weeks, as both Our Lady Book and the Manual of the Sodality have a good deal to provide for us.

When you find old black Catholic devotional books in antique and rare book shoppes, you've found rare treasure often enough. 

[susanna]

Those are the sweetest Mary prayers. 
I have a missal from 1959.  There is so much in it - about vestments, the vessels used at the altar, different masses, liturgical colors, etc.  Then each day has a sentence or two from the Imitation of Christ. I sometimes just read it at home, I like it so much.  How do kids today learn all these things if they don't go to a Catholic school?  They have no missals anymore 

[Brigid]

Unfortunately, the education in Catholic schools can be pretty non-religious now.

[Shin]

Those are the sweetest Mary prayers. 
I have a missal from 1959.  There is so much in it - about vestments, the vessels used at the altar, different masses, liturgical colors, etc.  Then each day has a sentence or two from the Imitation of Christ. I sometimes just read it at home, I like it so much.  How do kids today learn all these things if they don't go to a Catholic school?  They have no missals anymore 

We need to reprint the old books. I know some small presses do so.

Every parish should be full of them. The books of the saints. The old traditional religious works.