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Reception Ceremony for Membership into the Holy Name Society

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Moderator: Opening Remarks

All please kneel

Priest: Let us pray for those here present, who have asked to be admitted into our Confraternity that God may bless their intentions and strengthen their resolutions. With the help of divine grace, may they observe their promises, remain faithful to the practices of the Confraternity, and merit to attain eternal life.

ALL: Say the: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be to the Father.

Priest: Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created.

ALL: And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Priest: Let us pray. O God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secret is hidden, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inpouring of Thy Holy Ghost, that we may perfectly love Thee and worthily praise Thee. This we ask through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Moderator stands and faces the congregation.

Moderator: Reverend Father, certain parishioners here present desire to be admitted into the Holy Name Society.

Priest: If there are not objections on the part of the Society, let them come forward.

Moderator: Will those Catholics who have indicated their desire to become members of the Holy Name Society, please come forward as your name is called.

When name is called, kneel along the altar rail.

Priest: My dear Brethren, since you have manifested a desire to be admitted into the Holy Name Society, it is necessary that we know your dispositions.

Are you disposed to observe its Rules and Constitutions, so as to merit a participation in its spiritual favors?

Candidates: With the grace of God, I am.

Priest: Brethren, you know what will be required of you as members of the Holy Name Society. Do you, therefore, promise to respect and to love the Sacred Name of Jesus, and to do all in your power to extend that respect and love, as well as belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ?

Cnadidates: With the grace of God, I do promise.

Priest: Do you promise to abstain fromblasphemous and immodest language, and to labor that those under your charge refrain from such language?

Candidates: With the grace of God, I do promise.

Priest: Do you promise to observe Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation and, as far as you can, make those under your charge observe them; and to strive, both by word and example, to promote the glory of God, and the reverence due to His Holy Law?

Candidates: With the grace of God, I do promise.

Priest: Do you promise to receive Holy Communion regularly with the Society?

Candidates: With the grace of God, I do promise.

Priest: Since such are your dispositions, you are now permitted to pronounce your solemn pledge, by which you shall be admitted to all the privileges and benefits of our Society.

Moderator: All candidates and all members, please stand, raise your right hand, and repeat after me.

Moderator invokes the Holy Name Pledge and candidates recite it after him.

Priest: May God bless your resolutions; may His holy angels and saints assist you to keep them. Laboring during your whole life for the glory and honor of the Holy Name of God, may you merit to share in the glory of the Apostles, the Martyrs and Confessors, who labored and died for the name of Jesus. Amen.

Presentation of the Society's Insignia

Moderator: We now have the blessing of the Holy Name Insignia and Manuals.

Priest: Adjutorium nostrum in Nomine Domini.

ALL: Qui fecit coelum et terram.

Priest: Dominus vobiscum.

ALL: Et cum spiritu tuo.

Priest: Oremus, Deus, cujus verbo sanctificantur omnia, benedictionem tuam effunde super haec insignia; etpraesta ut quisquis eis secundum legem et voluntatem tuam cum gratiarum actione usus fuerit, per invocationem Sanctissimi Nominis tui, corporis sanitatem et animae tutelam, te auctore percipiat. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

ALL: Amen.

The emblems and books are sprinkled with holy water abd are then presented to each member.

Priest: Accept Brethren these emblems of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of Jesus; may they be to you a pledge of eternal salvation.

Once the insignias have been distributed, the ceremony continues with the following prayer.

Priest: Sit Nomen Domini benedictum.

ALL: Ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum.

Priest: Domine exaudi orationem meam.

ALL: Et clamor meus ad te veniat.

Priest: Dominus vobiscum.

ALL: Et cum spiritu tuo.

Priest: Oremus. Respice quaesumus Domine super hos famulos tuos, qui inter confratres Societatus Sanctissimi Nominis tui connumerari desiderant, ut benedicentes in terris, te laudare et benedicere mereantur in coelis. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

ALL: Amen.

Priest: By the authority granted me, I receive and enroll you in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of Jesus and make you sharers of all the graces, indulgences, privileges, and spiritual benefits of this Confraternity. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Moderator: In order to gain the Plenary Indulgence attached to your reception into the Society, we will say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory be for the intentions of the Holy Father.

Priest: Dominus vobiscum.

ALL: Et cum spiritu tuo.

Priest: Oremus. Deus, cujus misericordiae non est numerus, et bonitatis infinitus est thesaurus: tuae piissimae majestati pro collatis nobis donis gratias agimus, tuam semper clementiam exorantes, ut, qui petenibus postulata concedis, eosdem non deserens ad praemia futura disponas. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

ALL: Amen.

[NOTE: The foregoing is a "model" reception ceremony, which may be modified for reasons of pastoral convenience. As examples, the ceremony may be conducted entirely in the vernaculur [English] and, if it is being conducted in a one priest parish, the Society President may take the Moderator's role in the ceremony].

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