Powerful Family Prayer

Lord, we praise you for our family and thank you for your presence in our home. Enlighten us so that we are able to assume our commitment of faith in the church and to participate in the life of our community. Teach yourselves to live your word and the new commandment of love. Grant us the ability to recognize our differences in age, sex, character, to help each other, to forgive our weaknesses, understand our mistakes and live in harmony. Give us, Lord, good health, jobs with fair wages and a home where we can live happily. Teach us to treat the most needy and poor well and give us the grace to accept illness and death with faith when they approach our family. Help us to respect and encourage the vocation of each one and also of those whom God calls to his service. May in our family, Lord and bless our home and always. Amen.