Many Christian families want to place prayer in the heart of their home, but it is not always so easy to take this time. In fact, the parents’ days are often very demanding and the schedules of each one tend to vary frequently. For many families, the best time to pray as a familya It is the night, before putting the youngest children to bed. And better this way! Because God is very pleased to spend these last moments with us during the night, and to see us giving him our joys of the day and our weariness.
Here is a beautiful prayer, written by a contemporary Catholic priest in a simple and authentic language that can serve as a guide to pray at night in family.
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A beautiful evening prayer to recite as a family
Prayer written by Father Lécuru:
« Lord, we thank you for this day that is coming to an end. If this day has not been what you expected from us, we humbly ask you to forgive us. Console us for the bad moments lived. Despite our failures, we thank you for the good moments of our day, for the work accomplished, for the people we know, for the prayers granted. May the worries or concerns of this day invite us to have more confidence in you, our carelessness to have more vigilance, our mistakes to have more discernment and our precipitation to have more reflection. We entrust to you all the people we have met during the day. We offer you the work accomplished today: may it bear fruit. Thank you Lord for being by our side, even if we haven’t fixed it. Your presence has allowed us to reach tonight. We ask each other for forgiveness to welcome the peace that comes from you. We thank you for finding us all with the family safe and sound, and even saints and saved! Amen. »
Younger children can say:
« Sir, it is night, the day is ending. You stay with us, even when the sun goes down. Bless this night at home. You are in our midst. Amen “
Novena for Families with Saint Anne and Saint Joachim
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helps us pray as a family
helps us in prayer allowing us to find a spiritual content that nourishes our personal prayer, as well as its family prayer. Because it is by deepening his intimate relationship with God, on the one hand, and using the content adapted for family prayer, on the other, that the Lord will be able to carry out his work of conversion in our hearts. Do not hesitate to dare! By uniting, for example, with the novena to Saint Anne for families. Come! and discover many other spiritual proposals to nourish your prayer.