248 APPENDIX II ADMISSION TO THE CONFRATERNITY 10. Those to be admitted into the Confraternity approach the altar and remain standing. Celebrant: Our help is in the name of the Lord. All: Who made heaven and earth. Celebrant: O Lord, hear my prayer. All: And let my cry come unto You. Celebrant: The Lord be with you. All: And with your spirit. Celebrant: Let us pray. God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and admitted to your presence. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. All: Amen. Celebrant: n virtue of the power entrusted to me, I accept you into the Marian Fathers’ Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. By joining this Confraternity, O I
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