1. Opening hymn.
2. Recitation of the "Our Father".
3. A reading from the Bible: Lc 2, 41-52.
4. A reading from the Teaching of the Church:
1. Although the liturgy is the summit toward which all the Church's activity tends and the source from which all its strength emanates, it does not exhaust all its activity or the spiritual life of the faithful. So in addition to participation in the liturgy, the Church encourages and recommends some celebrations and exercises of popular piety. Sometimes popular piety adopts manifestations that clearly spring from the Christian people's authentic experience of faith and religiosity; at other times the Church must purify these manifestations from omissions, excessive emphases or even superstitious elements.
2. The age-old experience of the Church attests that this kind of piety has produced abundant fruits of Christian life in families and peoples. Supported by this experience and the light of the Holy Spirit, the Church believes that this piety can continue to lend great services to a truly inculturated faith, according to the diversity of peoples and continents.
3. Popular piety has many manifestations throughout the Liturgical Year, especially during Lent, Holy Week and the Easter Triduum. During Ordinary Time, there are many manifestations around the Virgin Mary, the deceased faithful and the Saints. Pilgrimages, visits to shrines and cemeteries, processions, etc. are an inseparable part of this piety.
4. The Christian family has been very closely linked to these manifestations of piety, especially pilgrimages and visits to Marian shrines, some of which are famous worldwide today, and the family has passed these customs down from parents to children. Still today many Christian families go with their children to the shrines of the Virgin Mary where in addition to paying their devotion, they also receive the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist.
5. Together with these manifestations, there are other everyday ones such like grace at meals, praying the rosary as a family, house or car blessings, pilgrimages to the shrine of the patron saint, entreaties for rain or protection from calamities, etc.
6. Since faith has shaped these religious customs and practices, it is good for parents to continue them, to transmit this simple, solid spirit to their children, and to live their relations with God in the midst not only of the extraordinary situations in their lives, but also the more common ones.
7. Moreover, these practices have exerted and still exert great influence on the identity of peoples and the external expressions of the faith professed. When these manifestations are translated into social expression, they turn into joyful witness to one's faith for non-believers and encouragement for the weak.
5. Reflections of the leader.
6. Dialogue:
7. Commitments.
8. Recitation of the "Hail Mary" and invocation: "Regina familiae. Ora pro nobis".
9. Prayer for the family: God, Our Father, you proposed the Holy Family as a wonderful example for your People. Grant us that by imitating its domestic virtues, and united by the bonds of love, we will enjoy the everlasting rewards in our home in heaven. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
10. Closing hymn.