The Assumption of Mary, consecration of the day of our death.

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'Father, into your hands I commend my spirit'. (Luke 23,46)

Invocation to the Holy Spirit:

In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, so that all my thoughts may be pure.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit, so that my work may be sanctified.

Attract me, O Holy Spirit, so that I may love all that is good. 

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, so that I may uphold all that is sacred.

Guide me, O Holy Spirit, so that I may always be holy. 

Mother Teresa.

Psalm 89 (90):

Lord, you have been our refuge/through all generations./Before the mountains were born./the earth and the world brought forth,/from eternity to eternity you are God./You turn humanity back into dust,/saying, "Return, you children of Adam!"/A thousand years in your eyes/are merely a day gone by,/Before a watch passes in the night,/you wash them away;/They sleep,/and in the morning they sprout again like an herb./In the morning it blooms only to pass away;/in the evening it is wilted and withered./[...]Our life ebbs away under your wrath;/our years end like a sigh./Seventy is the sum of our years,/or eighty, if we are strong;/Most of them are toil and sorrow;/they pass quickly, and we are gone./Teach us to count our days aright,/that we may gain wisdom of the heart.

Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4,13-14

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

Meditation:

"Christ obeyed even at the cost of death and was therefore raised up by the Father. Thus, he entered into the glory of his kingdom. To him, all things are made subject until he subjects himself and all created things to the Father, that God may be all in all". Mary, the handmaid of the Lord, has a share in this Kingdom of the Son. The glory of serving does not cease to be her royal exaltation: assumed into heaven, she does not cease her saving service, which expresses her maternal mediation "until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect". Thus, she who here on earth "loyally preserved in her union with her Son unto the Cross," continues to remain united with him, while now "all things are subjected to him until he subjects to the Father himself and all things." Thus, in her Assumption into heaven, Mary is as it were clothed by the whole reality of the Communion of Saints, and her very union with the Son in glory is wholly oriented towards the definitive fullness of the Kingdom, when "God will be all in all."

St. John Paul II, Redemptoris Mater, §41.

Prayer of consecration:

Mother of the living, I consecrate to you the day of my death. Be with me, at this moment, when I will choose God forever. Be with me today, so that I learn to prepare myself, and I may be ready at the hour of the great passing to enter into Life. I consecrate to you all that ties me to earth, and I ask you for the gift of acceptance to leave when God will see fit. Comforter of the afflicted, please lean onto those who are currently living this crucial moment, and wipe the tears of those mourning the loss of their loved ones. 

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Community prayer

Memorare

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, That never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, Implored your help, or sought your intercession, Was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, Despise not my petitions, But in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen

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