Make spiritual communions for each member of the family. Offer each person, one by one, to Our Dear Mother. She will take them under her protection. Offer night prayer for them. . . You must be responsible for your family, leading them to Me, each in his own particular way. Ask for My graces on their behalf unceasingly.

St. Thomas Aquinas called spiritual communions “an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament and in lovingly embracing Him as if we had it actually received Him.” The following prayer was composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the 18th century and is a beautiful prayer of spiritual communion, which can be adapted like this for each member of your family:

My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire that _________ receive You into [his] soul. Since [he] cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into [his] heart. [Have him] embrace You as if You had already come, and unite [him] wholly to You. Never permit [him] to be separated from You. Amen.

JMJ