Prayer to Mater - Marie-Therese de Lescure, rscj
Ninth Superior General Society of the Sacred Heart

Under the pressure of over activity which at times consumes us, disturbs us, or scatters our energies in doing what is visible and accidental, let us come to our "Mater". She is the Mother of the Invisible, and the Mother of the Essential.

Let us ask her to detach us, to free us from all that is not important, to lead us on, and fix our gaze upon the Invisible which her own eyes look upon: the Invisible Presence, the Invisible Life; the Invisible Action: the Invisible Love, all those things which are eternal values in us and the great realities of faith.

May she keep us throughout our busy and over-crowded days in the radiance of things that are not seen and firm as if we beheld them Invisible. In the midst of non-essentials which invite and often distract us, we run the risk of encumbering our beings and confusing our values. May She give us the right understanding of the Essential and a hunger for it.

One thing alone is necessary -- the will of God and the work of His love. May Mater give us the singleness of vision so that we, too, may see the Invisible and Essential in all.

Prayer to Mater

Mater Admirabilis, we call upon you today our Mother and our model. We ask you to keep our school under your motherly protection, and to guide each one of us in the way that leads to your Son, Jesus.

Help us to follow your example of gentleness by being kind to one another and to our teachers.

Help us in our classes - to listen, to study well, to think about things on our own, to ask good questions, and to use, to the best of our ability, the minds that God has given us.

Help us to be generous with out gifts; both spiritual and material. Show us how to share what we have ad all that we are. Teach us to give with joyful, open hearts.

Pray for us, dear Mater, today and everyday, that we may be worthy of our name "Children of the Sacred Heart".