1) Prepare

• Schedule a priest to lead the ceremony, if possible

• Download & Print or Purchase Holy Family Portraits for Family & Children

• Order Brown Scapulars and Miraculous Medals for each family member

• If Ceremony is done without a priest, have portraits blessed & framed and have the Medals, Scapulars and a Candle blessed before the ceremony

• Set up a place of Honor in your home

• Children pick a place in their room for a Holy Family portrait (or Holy Family prayer Card)

• Choose a bible to be enthroned

• Order or Print out Enthronement Certificate (in Spanish)

• Go to Confession

• Print out age-appropriate Examinations of Conscience

2) Watch & Pray as a family!

In advance of the Enthronement ceremony, start to pray the daily rosary with your family. Begin with one decade & increase to full Rosary over time. 

Preparation Resources
(Highly Recommended!)

Rosary

• Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary
• Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary
• Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary
• Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary

• Online Rosary Text

• Purchase the Dramatized Rosary

• Purchase the Soul of the Rosary

• 15 promises for those who pray the Rosary

Holy Family Enthronement

• Holy family Portrait Explanation 16 minute video or Text.

• 12 Promises of the  Sacred Heart 11-minute video or Text of the 12 Promises

• Mother Teresa on Family prayer & its effects 1.5 minute video

• Mother Teresa’s comments on Enthronement & Its effects on the Family 5 minute video

• Music video on the Eucharist 4 minute video

Brown Scapular

• Share with your Children some incredible Scapular Miracle Stories!

• Read, about the scapular

• Watch & Learn about the Brown Scapular

Miraculous Medal

• Share with your Children some incredible Miraculous Medal Stories!

• Read about Miraculous Medal & St. Catherine Laboure

• Watch & Learn about the Miraculous Medal

• Begin with a Prayer (Our Father)  & light the blessed candle

• Enthronement Ceremony Video or Written overview (Other Possible Scriptures for the Ceremony)

• Miraculous Medal (Do Miraculous Medal Ceremony if a priest is present, otherwise just solemnly put on the blessed medal. You can also print out the ceremony and at a later time ask a priest to bless & confer the medal)

• Brown Scapular (Do Brown Scapular Ceremony if a priest is present, otherwise same as above)

• Pray Family Rosary

• Pray daily the Family Apostolate’s Act of Consecration to renew your consecration to the Holy Family

4) Encourage our priests, bishops and others!  How?

By Registering your enthronement of the Holy Family & scripture, you edify the whole church. Why? Because they know that faithful families are crucial!

“We need holy families, lest the church and the world would perish” Bishop Nickless

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” JPII

Learn the Additional Benefits of having joined with others to honor the Holy Family!

5) First Saturday Devotion

• Read about First Saturday Devotion

• View online First Saturday programs to help you fulfill the obligations of the devotion

• Purchase your own set of First Saturday Videos

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