Family Prayers

Celebrate Family, Church of the Home

Loving God, we celebrate Your presence in our family: Your love makes our lives sacred and holy and sustains us in good times and hard times.

Bless our family. Help us grow closer to you and to each other

By praying together
By acting justly
By forgiving and reconciling
By celebrating ordinary and special event
By showing respect
By communicating honestly
By serving each other and our community.

Bless our home. Make it a place of peace and compassion so all who pass through its doors will share Your presence in the world.
Thank you for this day. Amen

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FAMILY PRAYER

Lord God, we thank you for the gift of family. We acknowledge that our image and name as family come from You.

We believe that within our family lies a home-made holiness. We affirm that it is in the household of faith that we experience Your presence, Your forgiveness, and Your love.
We give thanks to You, for the many joys and blessings that have come to us through our family.

As family we sometimes feel pain. And so we offer to You our disappointments, frustrations and hurts. Help us to forgive those members of our family, including ourselves, who have caused pain.

We pray for the strength to be a light within our family. May we open our heart, our eyes and ears and carry our light to those in need.

God, Creator of the earth and all its people, help us to be mindful that, as members of one global family, we are equal in Your eyes. Help us to continue to appreciate the diversity of persons in our homes and in our world. As members equal in human dignity, may we build a better world and proclaim our willingness to be the holy people you call us to be. Amen.