Queen of Unity
Nine-Week Novena
June 20 – August 22, 2021
Opening Prayer:
In Spirit I kneel before your picture, Thrice Admirable, strong and gentle Mother,
united with all who have consecrated themselves to you and are ready to die for your realm.
We want to mirror ourselves in your image and seal our covenant of love anew. Make us, your instruments,
like you in everything and through us build Schoenstatt everywhere (Heavenwards).
Week 2 – We are One in the Spirit
(June 27 – July 3, 2021)
In the next seven days, we focus on our spiritual life as a source of unity among the Schoenstatt Family or any other family or community. Fulton Sheen used to say that matter separates and the spirit unites. Material things always tend to separate us. As long as we focus on our spiritual wealth, we remain strongly united in the flow of life. The Holy Spirit breathes in us spiritual life; he also unites us.
God intended a sound natural family to be an organic unity; husband and wife, father and mother, parents and children should live spirit in spirit. The family is meant to be an organic unity of life. Its members should not live spirit against spirit (Fr. Kentenich, Forming the New Person, 1951).
Remain genuinely attentive to the needs of others is our gift of love to the Queen of Unity.
Closing Prayer:
We pray from the Heavenwards, the Prayer for the International
… accept our humble veneration and look on
our readiness to go to battle.
We present to you the nations living here
who share with us the fate of exile.
Be their+ Mother and their Queen! May they return home transformed—a firm guarantee
for peace among the nations++ and for unity in
the City of God on earth.
Through our striving we want to replace the
love and faithfulness they deny you
through their flight from the cross of Christ.
We want to live for you and your work alone.
Rule over us as pleases God and make us
the salt and leaven of the world.
Let us become one heart and one soul as
Our Lord implored during his earthly life
and despite each individual way remain
united, dedicating ourselves to the Father
as an ideal kingdom and overcoming all
barriers of nationality even when hate
infests the masses of the nations.
Increase the numbers and depth of our family
and use us as your instruments forever.
May we fulfill the great mission which you
have implored for us in accordance with
the Father’s will. Amen.