ADMISSION TO THE CONFRATERNITY 245 od uses ordinary things as signs to express His extraordinary mercy toward us. Through simple things as well we express our gratitude, declare our willingness to serve God, and profess the resolve to live up to our baptismal consecration. The Blue Scapular is the sign of entrance into the Marian Fathers’ Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. This Scapular thus expresses our intention of sharing in the spirituality of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. That intention renews our baptismal resolve to put on Christ with the help of Mary Immaculately Conceived, whose own greatest desire is that we become more like Christ in praise of the Trinity, until, dressed for the wedding feast, we reach our home in Heaven. READING 7. A lector, one of those present, or the celebrant reads a text of sacred Scripture, taken either from the readings in the Lectionary for Masses in honor of Our Lady or from one of the following: A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah Isaiah 61:9-11 Thus says the LORD: Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; All who see them shall acknowledge them as a race the LORD has blessed. I rejoice heartily in the LORD, in my God is the joy of my soul; For he has clothed me with a robe of salvation, and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, like a bride bedecked with her jewels. As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, So will the LORD God make justice and praise spring up before all the nations. The word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God. Or: G
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