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Prayer for the Families

 

Eternal life-giving God,

you've made the family as the nucleus of every nation.

Man and wife you have entrusted the ability to give life to children

and thus to maintain the stream of human life on our earth.

 

You are the source of all life-affirming forces and deep appreciation and give man and woman an intimate sense of belonging.

That’s why parents connected to you can fully affirm their children

and accept them from you as a unique gift and a demanding task.

 

Filled with your unconditional YES to each of us humans parents can also perceive their children in their originality and respect them in their dignity as “children of God”.

As believers they know

that their children are not their possessions and their property,

but that they are trusted to them from you,

to feed them physically, mentally and spiritually,

so that they grow up to become independent, self-confident and loving people and later find their own place in the world.

 

Heavenly Father, give man and woman in marriage

a deep respect for each other

and a loving bond with each other,

to make their children feel comfortable in their community,

that they have a happy home with her parents

and always respect father and mother

as a mediator of God for the gift of their existence.

 

Fill, O God, the fathers and mothers with your Holy Spirit,

so that they may explain to their children the small and the great world,

show them the right order of human coexistence

and help them find their inner world of emotions

and to understand their emotional maturation processes better and better.

 

So bless, O God, our families,

that they may grow and mature in faith,

in a hopeful way of life

and in loving care for himself and for the great community of all living beings.

Amen.

 

Manfred Hanglberger (www.hanglberger-manfred.de)

 

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