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We are getting ready to start a chapter of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers after the first of the year at our Oratory.
I was wondering if anyone here on this board belongs to this Confraternity (yet another CCM! in my life)or is familiar with it?
I'm really excited about it. Here are some of the advantages of being in it: (Excerpted from an email sent out about it, sorry it is a long one.)
Why would I want to join this Confraternity?
There are many advantages for the woman who joins the Christian Mothers. First, a Christian Mother is under the powerful protection and intercession of Mary, our Mother of Sorrows, the chief patroness of the organization, as well as other special patrons of Christian Mothers: St. Joseph, St. John the Apostle, St. Augustine, St. Anthony, St. Aloysius, St. Anne (the Mother of Mary), St. Elizabeth (Mary's cousin), and Saints Gerard and Monica (the patron saints of mothers).
In return for all these benefits, a Christian Mother takes on the obligation to recite a daily prayer for the children and to offer a monthly Mass for the members. There is a monthly meeting which consists of Mass, a meeting, and a talk on an appropriate topic. Often the topic of discussion centers around the character formation of children--one of the main purposes of the confraternity.
One of the special advantages in membership is the actual presence of Our Divine Lord with His graces: "Where two or more are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them." There are many indulgences attached to membership of this Confraternity provided the members go to confession, receive Holy Communion and have the intention of gaining these indulgences. A plenary indulgence is given on the day of admission; another at the hour of death if they pronounce the holy name of Jesus; on the principle feast of the Confraternity or its octive and on the ten feasts named in the Confraternity's manual. There are also many partial indulgences given to members. The most interesting advantage of being a member is this: every single time a mother (being in the state of grace and with good intention) instructs her children, rewards or punishes them in the interest of Christian training and says a prayer or performs a good work receives a remission of temporal punishment incurred by sin! Every time she does this! How many times do mothers guide, instruct and help their children in one day?
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For an official description of the Confraternity please follow this link:
http://www.capuchin.com/mothers/default.htm
Here is the history from the above web site:
At about the middle of the 19th century, in France, when the modern forces began to undermine family life, mothers began to gather and to pray with and for one another, and for their children, and to discuss their problems and to advise one another regarding the Christian rearing of their children. The movement solidified and in May 1, 1850, the first conference of Christian Mothers was held in Lille, France under the leadership of Loiuse Josson de Bilhem, the wife of a court official. The growing organization found recognition from the Bishop and grew with leaps and bounds throughout France and the neighboring countries, and soon over a million women were enrolled as members.
At present there are six Archconfraternities of Christian Mothers in the world. They are located in Paris, Rome, Regensburg (Ratisbon), Cracow, Einsidlen, and Pittsburgh. The society found its way to America. In January 16, 1881, the Confraternity of Christian Mothers was canonically erected in St. Augustine's Church, Pittsburgh, PA., and was raised to the rank of Archconfraternity with the right of affiliating other Confraternities wherever the Ordinary approved. Since then over 3, 500 Confraternities have been affiliated with the Pittsburgh Archconfratenity directed by the Capuchin Fathers and Brothers.
Here is the object from the above web site:
The Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers has for its object the Christian home education of children by truly Christian Mothers. It plans to unite by the observance of its rules all Christian ladies, married or widowed, who are willing to assist one another to attain this noble purpose. Under the special patronage of the Mother of Sorrows the members are encouraged to undertake the important task of training and sanctifying the young souls entrusted to their care. They are schooled to edify one another, to support one another by fervent prayers and thus become the mainstay of spiritual life within their own family, and a fruitful source of blessing to the community in which they live.
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In Christ the King through Mary our Mother,
Amie
Blessed with an awesome hubby and Mom of ds10, dd7, dd3 and dd 10months.
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