Prayer for a Family

Dear Parishioners,

This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family.

It is a day to honor Jesus, Mary and Joseph for their love and devotion to each other.

We know that Joseph watched over Jesus and Mary with a dedicated love of a husband and a father. We know that Mary cared for Jesus and Joseph with the tender love of a wife and mother. And, we know that Jesus regarded Mary and Joseph with a trusting love of a loyal child.

These three figures of history and of faith should be looked to as an example for all of us in our family relationships.

Our families are God’s gift to us of love. He places us in a family so that we can love and be loved in a special way. We must look to each other in our families with the kind of love and respect which Jesus, Mary and Joseph had for each other.

Today, take the time to thank God for your family, whomever that family may consist of. Ask yourself, “are you a gift of God’s love to them and vice versa?” Ask the Holy Family to intercede for your family. Pray especially for the most troubled and alienated members.

I will pray for all families of Saints Peter and Paul Parish today, as I pray for my own family. I ask you to do the same.

May Jesus, Mary and Joseph assist us in being the love of God in each other.

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino

Prayer For A Family

O dear Jesus,

I humbly implore You to grant Your special graces to our family. May our home be a shrine of peace, purity, love, labor and faith. I beg You, dear Jesus to protect and bless all of us, absent and present, living and dead.

O Mary,

Loving Mother of Jesus, and our Mother, pray to Jesus for our family, for all families of the world, to guard the cradle of the newborn, the schools of the young and their vocations

Blessed Saint Joseph,

Holy guardian of Jesus and Mary, assist us by your prayers in all the necessities of life. Ask of Jesus that special grace which He granted to you, to watch over our home at the pillow of the sick and dying, so that with Mary and with You, Heaven may find our family unbroken in the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Amen.