1. Opening hymn.
2. The Lord's Prayer.
3. A reading from the Bible: Jn 19, 25-27.
4. A reading from the Teaching of the Church:
1. The Virgin Mary is united by an indissoluble bond to the life and saving work of her Son. This union was manifested from the moment of Christ's virginal conception until his death: at his birth when she presented her first-born Son to the shepherds and the Magi; in the Temple when she made the offering of the poor and presented him to God and heard Simeon prophesize that a sword would pierce her soul; in his public life, when through her intercession at the marriage feast of Cana, she encouraged Jesus to begin his miracles; during his Passion, through her faithful union to Christ at the foot of the Cross as she suffered deeply with Him and associated herself with a Mother's heart with his sacrifice; at the moment when he left this world to go to the Father and the dying Jesus gave her to his disciple as his Mother; and at Pentecost, when she, together with the Apostles, begged for the gift of the Spirit and exercised her motherhood from the beginning of the Church.
2. By conceiving Christ, generating him, feeding him and presenting him to the Father in the Temple, by suffering with Him when he was dying on the Cross, she cooperated in an incomparable way in the Savior's work-with obedience, faith, hope and ardent charity-of restoring supernatural life in souls. In this way she became the mother of all men in the order of grace. Nevertheless, this maternal mission does not obscure or diminish the unique mediation of Christ, but rather it serves to show his power.
3. Mary is also deeply united to the life and mission of the Church. In fact, by contemplating her deep holiness, imitating her charity and faithfully fulfilling the Father's will, the Church also becomes our Mother. By preaching the Word of God, accepted with fidelity and baptism, the Church generates to a new and immortal life the children conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of God.
4. Moreover, the Church admires Mary, extols her as the most splendid fruit of the redemption, and contemplates her joyfully as a purest image of what the whole Church itself yearns for and hopes to be.
5. For all this, the Church presents Mary to the faithful to contemplate her as the first work of redemption, to venerate her as the Mother of Jesus and our mother, and to implore her intercession both in liturgical worship and in the pious practices and devotions to her that have been recommended by the Magisterium over the ages.
6. In the same way the Church reminds the faithful that real devotion to Mary does not consists of sterile, transitory sentimentalism or vain credulity; on the contrary, it comes from authentic faith that leads us to recognize the excellence of the Mother of God, to filial love for her, and to imitate her virtues.
7. We are all aware that we have received devotion to the Virgin Mary in our homes, like a precious heredity, through the example and witness of our parents: praying the rosary as a family, the Angelus and the Hail Holy Queen, the celebration of Marian feasts, the month of May, visits to a shrine, etc.
8. The Marian feasts have always been special moments for receiving the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist. The patron of many parishes is often a mystery in the life of Mary, which then becomes an important point in the life of that Christian community.
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: Our Lord and God, through Mary's virginal birth you gave men the fruits of salvation. Grant that we may know the intercession of Mary from whom we received your Son, Jesus Christ, the Author of life. You who live and reign forever and ever.
10. Closing hymn.