Catholic Parents Online Prayer for Parents:
Heavenly Father,
You made us in love, for love. Help us seek our true fulfillment by living out the Theology of the Body in our sexuality, through being a sincere gift of ourselves, in all our masculinity and all our femininity, to each other as spouses, and to our children as parents.
May we, through a greater awareness of the spousal meaning of our body and its redemptive significance, reflect ever so beautifully your great mystery–the eternal communion of love. And in so doing, teach our children to do the same.
We make this prayer through Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reign with you in the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer of Pope St John Paul II for families:
Lord God, from You every family in Heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, You are love and life.
Through Your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, the fountain of divine charity, grant that every family on earth may become for each successive generation a true shrine of life and love.
Grant that Your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all the families in the world.
Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.
Grant that love, strengthened by the grace of the sacrament of marriage, may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass.
Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that the Church may fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family and through the family.
We ask this of You, Who is life, truth and love with the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Family by Pope Francis:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in you we contemplate the splendour of true love; to you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that our families too may be places of communion and prayer, authentic schools of the Gospel and small domestic churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth, may families never again experience violence, rejection and division; may all who have been hurt or scandalized find ready comfort and healing.
Holy Family of Nazareth, make us once more mindful of the sacredness and inviolability of the family, and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Graciously hear our prayer. Amen.
