Marian Catechist Mass Guild

Anyone can be enrolled. The person may be living or deceased. He or she may be a friend or a family member, an acquaintance who is facing difficult times or even someone with whom we struggle.

The one who is enrolled will be remembered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for members of the Guild each month for an entire year. The Masses will be offered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

There are two kinds of enrollment: In Memory or In Honor.

• In Memory enrollment - To be used when the person enrolled is deceased.
• In Honor enrollment - To be used to commemorate someone's birthday, graduation, anniversary, retirement, Christmas, or simply as an expression of your love, admiration or concern. It may also be used as a gift for the person who "has everything he needs." After all, we will always need more grace!

Front of Card - Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the crossing of my arms?

Back of Card - Memorare to Our Lady of Guadalupe

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, that in thy celestial apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, thou didst promise to show thy compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting thee, seek thy help and call upon thee in their necessities and afflictions.

Thou didst promise to hearken to our supplications, to dry our tears and to give us consolation and relief. Never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, either for the common welfare, or in personal anxieties was left unaided.

Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Mary, ever Virgin Mother of the True God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves in thy august presence, certain that though wilt deign to fulfill thy merciful promises. We are full of hope that, standing beneath thy shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor need we fear illness, or misfortune, or any other sorrow.

Thou hast desired to remain with us through thy admirable image, thou who art our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath thy maternal gaze and having recourse to thee in all our necessities we need do nothing more. O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer us. Amen.

Inside Card Left - May Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of America and Star of the New Evangelization, enfold you within her mantle and hold you securely in her arms, for she is indeed our Mother.

Inside Card Right - In Loving Memory

A donation has been made to the Marian Catechist Apostolate in memory of _________________

Your loved one has been enrolled in the Marian Catechist Mass Guild and will be remembered at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for members of the Guild each month for the next year.

The Masses will be offered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

This gift has been given by _________________

Front of Card - Image of the Holy Family

Back of Card - Prayer for the Family

Lord God, from You every family in Heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, You are Love and Life. Through Your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, fountain of divine Charity, grant that every family on earth may become for each successive generation a true shrine of life and love.

Grant that Your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all the families in the world.

Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.

Grant that love, strengthened by the grace of the Sacrament of Marriage, may prove mightier than all the weakness and trials through which our families sometimes pass.

Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that the Church may fruitfully carry our Her worldwide mission in the family and through the family.

We ask this of you, Who are Life, Truth, and Love with the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Inside Card Left - In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1: 4-5

Inside Card Right - Wishing you peace, hope and joy in union with the Holy Family.

A donation has been made in your name to the Marian Catechist Apostolate _________________ has been enrolled in the Marian Catechist Mass Guild and will be remembered at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for members of the Guild each month for the next year.

The Masses will be offered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

This gift has been given by _________________

Front of Card - Image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Back of Card - Memorare to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Remember, O most kind Jesus, that none who have had recourse to Your Sacred Heart, implored Its assistance, or called for mercy, have ever been abandoned. Filled and animated by this same confidence, O Divine Heart, Ruler of all hearts, I fly to You, and oppressed beneath the weight of my sins, I prostrate myself before You. Despise not Your unworthy child, but grant me, I pray, an entrance into Your Sacred Heart. Sustain me in all my combats and be with me now, and at all times, but especially in the hour of my death. O gracious Jesus! O amiable Jesus! O loving Jesus!

Inside Card Left - Blank

Inside Card Right - In Loving Honor

A donation has been made to the Marian Catechist Apostolate in honor of _________________ who has been enrolled in the Marian Catechist Mass Guild and will be remembered at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for members of the Guild each month for the next year.

The Masses will be offered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

This gift has been given by _________________

The actual cards are free. Once you receive the cards, we simply ask that you fill out the enrollment information below or complete the Mass Guild envelope and send it in, along with a donation of your choice, to the Apostolate. You then send the Memorial or In Honor card to the person in whose name you have made the gift.