Prayer for the Consecration of the Family
Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary,
I come to you to consecrate myself and my entire family to your Two Hearts.
I desire to renew the vows of my baptism and place each member of my family
through an act of faith, hope and love into loving union with the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
I dedicate myself and each member of my family
to the Guardian Angels God has given each one of us.
O Holy Guardian Angels, enlighten, guide and protect each one so as to lead us safely home to heaven.
At Fatima, dear Mother of God, you appeared with St. Joseph and the Child Jesus blessing the world.
O Holy Family, bestow blessings upon me and my entire family
so that we may live the Christ-life.
I desire that each member of my family adore always the Most Blessed Trinity
and love our God in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Grant peace to each member of my family.
Keep each one in the grace of Jesus Christ.
Never permit any of my family to stray from the true faith.
(For any family member who has strayed, I beseech you to bind up the wounds,
lift up the fallen, restore and keep each of our loved ones in grace.
Bid them come back to their Father's true home).
Amen
A Prayer for the Family
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,
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 weakness 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.
Through Christ our Lord, who is the Way,
the Truth and the Life for ever and ever. Amen.
Composed by Pope John Paul II
Crusade for the Family Prayer
Mary, Mother of God, at your request, Jesus worked His first miracle.
He changed water into wine for the wedding guests at Cana in Galilee.
Over the centuries you have not ceased to obtain countless
signs and wonders for the poor, exiled children of Eve.
We therefore ask you to intercede with your Divine Son for the miraculous graces
which the modern world so desperately needs:
For the conversion and reconversion of whole nations to Jesus Christ and His teaching on marriage the family.
For the heroic preservation among Christians of their faith in the indissolubility of marriage, marital fidelity and the loving acceptance of children, as the bedrock of the Christian family.
For the courage of martyrs in all of us followers of Christ, that we may witness to His power to overcome the powers of darkness that are bent on destroying the human family and the moral law.
Mary, Mother of the Holy Family, and Mother of our families, pray for us.
Composed by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.