Family prayer
Sacred Heart in the Home
Prepare for home enthronement and keep your family's consecration part of daily prayer.
Pray the family consecrationWhat home enthronement means
Enthronement honors the Sacred Heart with an image in a prominent place and the dedication of the family to Christ. The image calls the family back to prayer and to living its love for Him.
Prepare with your priest
Speak with your pastor about arranging the home enthronement. Choose a picture or statue of the Sacred Heart and a place of honor where the family can gather to pray. Arrange the ceremony and the blessing of the image with your priest.
Keep the consecration part of family life
Return to the act of consecration together, and let it shape the way you pray and treat one another. Traditional guidance also encourages rededicating the family to the Sacred Heart on First Fridays.
After the family Rosary
If your family has enthroned the Sacred Heart, you may repeat your consecration after the family Rosary as an optional devotion.
Renew our family's consecration ›Use the complete family act from the 1910 Raccolta. Its original wording is preserved.
Sources and editions
The preparation guidance summarizes The Sacramentals, revised edition of 1942, pages 41-42. Arrange the ceremony with your priest. The family prayer is the separate complete act in the 1910 Raccolta, no. 172, pages 147-148. The optional timing after the family Rosary follows the pastoral recommendation behind this guide.