Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Support our Oakland Apostolate

Please remember our Oakland Apostolate when you are making your year-end

donations for 2009 or at anytime throughout the year.

You can go to the Institute’s website at www.institute-christ-king.org

and click on “St. Margaret Mary Oakland, CA”, then click on “Donate.”

  You can also give your donation to Canon Moreau or send it directly to the

Institute’s U.S. Headquarters in Chicago at

6415 South Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637-3817.

Please make sure you mark it for the Oakland Apostolate at St. Margaret Mary’s.

We thank you in advance for your generosity.

November 29 - December 7

Novena of the Immaculate Conception

And Office of the Holy Rosary

As we prepare for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, join us daily after Mass as we say the

Novena Prayer and pray the  Holy Rosary.

O MOST HOLY Virgin who wast pleasing to God and didst become His Mother, Immaculate in your soul, in your faith and in your love, we beseech thee to look graciously upon the wretched who implore thy powerful protection. The wicked serpent, against whom the primal curse was hurled, continues nonetheless to wage war and to lay snares for the unhappy children of Eve. Ah, do thou, our blessed Mother, our Queen and Advocate, who from the first instant of thy conception didst crush the head of our enemy, receive the prayers that we unite single-heartedly to thine and conjure thee to offer at the throne of God, that we may never fall into the snares that are laid for us, in such wise that we may all come to the haven of salvation; and in the midst of so many dangers may holy Church and the fellowship of Christians everywhere sing once more the hymn of deliverance, victory, and peace. Amen.

Tota Pulchra Es

Tota Pulchra es, O Maria, tota pulchra es,

Et macula non est in te.

Quam speciosa, quam suavis in deliciis

Conceptio illibata!

Chorus:

Veni, veni de Libano, veni, veni de Libano, veni, veni, coronaberis.

Tu progrederis ut aurora valde rutilans,

Affers gaudia salutis.

Per te ortus est Christus Deus, sol justitiae,

O fulgida porta lucis.  Chorus

Sicut lilium inter spinas: inter filias

sic tu Virgo benedicta.

Tuum refulget vestimentum ut nix candidum,

Sicut sol facies tua.  Chorus

In terra nostra, vox audita, vox dulcissima:

Vox turturis, vox columbae.

Assume pennas, O Columba formosissima!

Surge, propera et veni.  Chorus

Today starts the third week of the Consecration to Mary

of the Institute’s Apostolate in the Bay Area.

(Five week preparation for our total Consecration to Mary

according to St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion.)

The Consecration takes place here on December 8.

December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Patroness of America and of the Institute

There will be a Candlelight Procession

and Consecration of the Institute’s Apostolate.