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 4 – We are United in Mary

(July 11 – 17, 2021)

Like the Apostles in the Cenacle, we await a greater inbreak of grace in our lives, in our Movement, and in each individual. As long as we await these greater graces in close union with Mary, we not only receive special blessings, we give birth to the Church anew; we renew the Church. During this week, let us contemplate how Mary unites us. She also ensures a purer, deeper, and more genuine commitment from each one of us, for the good of the whole.

A community without a heart is not possible, not stable, just as the body without a heart cannot bear weight or keep up its resistance. Mary is the uniting bond that holds us together (Fr. Kentenich, Forming the New Person, 1951).

Praying with and for those we love or reject is our gift of love for 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.