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Confraternity of Christian Mothers |
Become a member of the CCM at St. Aloysius Parish
Join us on Saturday, November 15: Holy Mass at 9 am; followed by an information session and an opportunity for enrolment in the Confraternity at 10:30 am.
CCM Schedule:
9:00 am Holy Mass — all families invited!
followed by an information session
10:30 am Ceremony of Enrolment in the Confraternity
followed by a reception in the basement
Who can join the Confraternity?
Any Catholic woman in good standing, married or unmarried, with or without children, can be admitted, provided she seriously intends to promote the aims of the Confraternity, especially that of the Christian education of children, and to comply with the rules of the Confraternity.
What is required for membership?
In order to participate fully in the benefits of being a Christian Mother, members are bound in charity, but not under pain of sin, to perform the following duties:
• Take seriously your vocation to educate and raise your children in the Catholic faith, and support other women in their motherly vocations.
• Pray the Daily Prayer for the Children each day for your children and those of other members.
• Once each month offer your personal Mass intention for Confraternity members.
• Participate in meetings, Masses, Holy Hours, and other events as often as possible without compromising other responsibilities.
• Use the Mother Love prayer book as part of your personal spiritual formation.
• Pray for the other members (including deceased members), your local Director, officers and our National Executive Director.
• Pay the annual dues.
• Take seriously your vocation to educate and raise your children in the Catholic faith, and support other women in their motherly vocations.
• Pray the Daily Prayer for the Children each day for your children and those of other members.
• Once each month offer your personal Mass intention for Confraternity members.
• Participate in meetings, Masses, Holy Hours, and other events as often as possible without compromising other responsibilities.
• Use the Mother Love prayer book as part of your personal spiritual formation.
• Pray for the other members (including deceased members), your local Director, officers and our National Executive Director.
• Pay the annual dues.
What indulgences are available to members?
A Christian Mother duly admitted into the Confraternity of Christian Mothers may obtain numerous plenary and partial indulgences:
Plenary Indulgences are available under the usual conditions, with the additional condition of making or renewing (at least privately) her promises to observe faithfully the rules of the Confraternity:
• On the day of her reception.
• On the feasts of the Holy Family, the Annunciation, the Queenship of Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Gerard Majella, St. Elizabeth, and Christ the King.
Partial Indulgences are available:
• Four times a year, on days established by her local Confraternity, or on the next Sunday, after having visited the church of the Confraternity and there prayed for the intention of the Pope.
• As often as she attends a Confraternity conference or lecture.
• Each time she recites, with a contrite heart, the Christian Mother’s Daily Prayer for the Children.
• For every good work performed according to the intention and rules of the Confraternity or on its behalf.
This last indulgence is, on account of its greatness, worthy of special attention. Every good work performed by a Member of the Confraternity, for the Confraternity in general, or for its Members, for the education and the benefit of her own children, or for the children of one of the Members, obtains for herself, if she performs it in the state of grace and with a pious intention, a remission of part of the temporal punishment due to sin. While the former custom of assigning a time value to partial indulgences is no longer in effect, it may be helpful to Christian Mothers to know that in ages past, the Church assigned these good works the equivalence of sixty days of severe penance!
Plenary Indulgences are available under the usual conditions, with the additional condition of making or renewing (at least privately) her promises to observe faithfully the rules of the Confraternity:
• On the day of her reception.
• On the feasts of the Holy Family, the Annunciation, the Queenship of Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Gerard Majella, St. Elizabeth, and Christ the King.
Partial Indulgences are available:
• Four times a year, on days established by her local Confraternity, or on the next Sunday, after having visited the church of the Confraternity and there prayed for the intention of the Pope.
• As often as she attends a Confraternity conference or lecture.
• Each time she recites, with a contrite heart, the Christian Mother’s Daily Prayer for the Children.
• For every good work performed according to the intention and rules of the Confraternity or on its behalf.
This last indulgence is, on account of its greatness, worthy of special attention. Every good work performed by a Member of the Confraternity, for the Confraternity in general, or for its Members, for the education and the benefit of her own children, or for the children of one of the Members, obtains for herself, if she performs it in the state of grace and with a pious intention, a remission of part of the temporal punishment due to sin. While the former custom of assigning a time value to partial indulgences is no longer in effect, it may be helpful to Christian Mothers to know that in ages past, the Church assigned these good works the equivalence of sixty days of severe penance!
How to join
Contact the Parish office at [email protected] to inquire about enrollment.
For more information, visit the Confraternity of Christian Mothers website.