Deacon Olatunde Branche

Here in your inner sanctum,
Here where my eyes behold
The purple and white of penance
Twined in a cross of gold;

Here where my lips now tremble
IN the pledge of a solemn oath,
Charity-Unity, please God,
Teach me to know them both.

Here where your Virgin Mother
Is the symbol of womanhood;
Where all that I see betokens 
That which is kind and good;

Here me to keep these preceipts.
Help me to be worthy of the name
"Catholic Daughter"
In its beautiful entirety.

Flois DuBois
Court St. Mary #1046
Dumont, New Jersey

Lord Jesus,

We the Catholic Daughters of the
Americas offer ourselves to you.
We ask that you make our feet your
feet when you want us to go where
you are needed.
Make our arms your arms
when you want us to reach out
to a hurting person.
Make our mouths open and speak only
as your mouth when you want us to
evangelize others through us.
Finally, Lord Jesus, make us all good
Catholic Daughters of the Americas,
so we may give Glory to
your Holy Name.
Amen

Father Edward Lamp
National Chaplain
2010-2012

Lord, we pray for the power to be gentle;
the strength to be forgiving;
the patience to be understanding;
and the endurance to accept the consequence of
holding to what we believe to be right.

May we put our trust in the power
of good to overcome evil and the power
of love to overcome hatred. We pray
for the vision to see and the faith to
believe in a world emancipated from
violence, a new world where fear shall 
no longer lead people to commit injustice,
nor selfishness make them bring suffering
to others.

Help us to devote our whole life
and thought and energy to the task of
making peace, praying always for the 
inspiration and the power to fulfill the
destiny for which we were created.

Amen.