Behold, Heavenly Father, this precious gift of your goodness, my dearly beloved child, whom even before her birth I already offered to you! By Holy Baptism,you have raised her to the state of grace, have regenerated her and made her your own child. I give and dedicate her anew to you. With all my heart, I devote her to your service, your love and your good pleasure. Would that I could offer and consecrate her to you with a heart as sincere, as pious and devote as was that of Elizabeth when she offered St. John to you; as was that of Anne when she consecrated to you her immaculate child; as was that of Mary when she offered to you her only, her Divine Son.
Take, O Father of Jesus Christ, this child for your own! possess her as your own property. Keep her safe under your constant protection from every grievous sin, and grant that she may never fall from the state of grace in which you have placed her. May she carry the robe of Baptismal innocence, adorned with which she now lies before me, to your judgement seat, where she will render an account of her earthly pilgrimage.
Gladly do I accept all the care and trouble which her support, her protection, and her education will entail. All that you will require of me on her account, I shall willingly bear, through love of you and of her. Grant me only your grace, for without that I can do nothing toward advancing her true welfare. Stand ever at my side with your paternal love, that I may gain for myself the reward of a good mother, and that this beloved child, may, like her Divine Model, increase in wisdom and in grace and in years before you and all good people! Amen.
This prayer can be found in the Mother Love prayer book published by the Confraternity of Christian Mothers.
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