Prayer for Families

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who who creates families for our belonging: We ask for your continual care for the homes in which your people live. Keep them from all bitterness, arrogance, and the pride of life. Fill them with faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness. Knit together in enduring affection those who in holy marriage have been made one flesh. Turn the hearts of the parents to the children, and the hearts of the children to the parents; and so kindle fervent love among us all, that we may forever be kind and loving to one to another; through Jesus Christ…