FORM OF DEDICATING A CHILD TO MARY

O holy Mary, Mother of God, and our dear Mother also,

behold we have come to dedicate this child (here name the child)

to thy maternal care. We choose thee this day for his/her Mother,

Patroness and Advocate; and we beseech thee to take him/her

under thy powerful protection.

O most tender and loving Mother, we most earnestly entreat thee,

through the infinite merits of Thy divine Son Jesus,

that thou wilt watch over this child and obtain for him/her

the grace of guarding faithfully all his/her actions,

so that he/she may never displease thy divine Son,

nor thee, His blessed Mother;

but that all the faculties and powers of his/her soul,

all the senses and members of his/her body

-- his/her whole being -

may be offered a holocaust of praise and honor

to the divine Majesty during his/her whole life,

and at the hour of his/her death. 

And in that awful hour, come, O holy Mother, to assist thy child,

protect him/her from his/her infernal enemies,

and conduct his/her soul out of this miserable world

to see and enjoy God, and to love and bless thee,

in the company of the blessed in heaven.

Amen.

     Recite three Hail Marys, and "O Mary, conceived without sin," etc.