A Family Prayer

Since sometime ago, the Hub and I decided that we must TRY to pray together nightly for our spiritual and marriage sake.

To be honest, it really is quite difficult to do that, the praying together nightly, coz being converts, we are just not as fluent and not to mention as comfortable in verbalizing our prayers, yar.. not even to each other. Like out of a sudden, just pray. Pray what mann? And How to just pray. We happen not to have the gift of prayer where it becomes so easy to pray.

So, the answer to our praying together nightly is to follow some given prayers from the holy catholic church.

We start off with the most powerful Our Father, then Hail Mary and Glory Be. The most basic most standard prayers.

We attended a Family mass in our church before and there was a prayer card for the family, so we pray that as well.

I really like this prayer, it's so meaningful, sharing it here for anyone who is interested.

Prayer for the Family.

O God, our Lord and King, we thank you for each and every member of our family. We believe that each one of us is your special gift to us. We ask you to forgive us for those times we fail to love and care for one another.

Gracious King, we surrender to you all our needs, problems and heartaches. We implore you to set aright whatever is wrong within our family.

Lord and King, surround each of us with your angels and saints. Protect us from all evil. Send forth your Holy Spirit upon us to increase our faith and trust in you. May the peace of your Holy Spirit flow into our home and remain with us now and forever more.

Amen.

I know following given prayers is not the best, but any teeny tiny baby steps is better than none, so for sometime now, we have been doing this. Once a while, we still get lazy and don't but we are trying hard to really do these prayers before the end of the day.

So far so good for the time being.