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Blessing for Expectant Mothers


On Saturday 3rd June there will be a special blessing ceremony for all mothers who are expecting a baby. It will include a short prayer for protection and safe delivery with an individual blessing for all mothers-to-be who are present. It will take place in the Apparition Chapel from 12 noon – 12.45.


For more information, please contact The Family Centre, Knock Shrine: T. (094) 93 75320 E: familycentre@knockshrine.ie

Prayer of an Expectant Mother

Lord Jesus, I lovingly pray for this sweet hope
that I keep within my womb.
You have granted me the immense gift
of a tiny little life,
living in my own life,
and I humbly thank you for choosing me
as an instrument of your love.
In this sweet waiting,
help me to live in a constant attitude
of self-surrender to your will.

Grant me a motherly heart that is pure,
steadfast and generous.
I hand over to you my own concerns;
any anxious fears that may come,
my own wishes for the little person
that I still have no knowledge of.
Grant that it may be born healthy in body,
keep far from it every peril to its soul.

Mary, you have known
the ineffable joy of a holy motherhood;
give me a heart that can transmit an ardent, living
faith.
Sanctify my waiting,
bless this joyful hope that is in me,
grant that the fruit of my womb
may open out in virtue
and in holiness through your working
with that of your divine Son.

Amen.