For the preservation of the Deposit of Faith.

For the Kingdom of God to come!

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The Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God has a special purpose the preservation of the Deposit of Faith through religious education in all its forms. God has established him as a bulwark against the almost general apostasy which has invaded Christendom and in particular the Roman Church.

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Divine Child Jesus, I love You with my whole heart

Fenelon and the three workers on Christmas Eve.

Those who do not pursue their last end will be unhappy from here on.

Fénelon, so famous as an educator (d. 1715), had three workmen come on Christmas Eve to complete some repairs in his palace in Cambrai. When in the evening the bishop distributed the Christmas gifts to his house, he also called these workmen into his room to give them their Christmas gifts. “Here,” he said, “on this table are three gold shields and three books of piety; each of you may choose a book or a shield.” Two workmen took a shield, saying, “This will serve us to pay for the wood for the winter.” The third hesitated for a moment, then chose one of the books of piety. “I have,” he said, “an old blind mother at home: during the long winter evenings I will read to her.” The archbishop smiled and said to him, “Now open your packet.” The workman did so and found under the envelope three gold écus. One can imagine the confusion of the other two, especially since Fenelon, seeing their disillusionment, said to them, “My friends, whoever prefers gold to what is useful to his soul is obliged to be content with this small earthly profit; but he who seeks eternal goods receives temporal goods in addition.”

This is what Jesus Christ had already taught: Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all the rest will be given to you in addition.

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and of the Mother of God. Amen.

Preparatory Prayer

O Jesus! We are going to walk with You on the road to Calvary which was so painful for You. Make us understand the greatness of Your sufferings, touch our hearts with tender compassion at the sight of Your torments, in order to increase in us the regret of our faults and the love we wish to have for You.
Deign to apply to all of us the infinite merits of Your Passion, and in memory of Your sorrows, show mercy to the souls in Purgatory, especially to those who are most abandoned.
O Divine Mary, who first taught us to make the Way of the Cross, obtain for us the grace to follow Jesus with the sentiments Your Heart was filled with as You accompanied Him on the road to Calvary. Grant that we may weep with You, and that we may love Your divine Son as You do. We ask this in the name of His adorable Heart. Amen.