Prayer for Couples ~ Founding Prayer 7

This prayer is one of the many prayers we prayed that has guided the founding of the foundation and was prayed before we founded it and throughout everything we do. We have prayed these prayers over the last 5 years… as we were discerning what direction to take with founding it, this prayer really helped us to see more clearly our next steps to found the foundation. Essentially, these are prayers our foundation were founded on and ones that our foundation lives by. As you can see the many prayers that we have prayed… each area of our foundation is covered in prayer, and all of these prayers helped us to found each area of our foundation and the services we offer.

Lord, may they (we) both praise you when we are happy and turn to you in our sorrows.

May they (we) we be glad that you help them (us) in our work and know that you are with them (us) in their (our) need.

May they (we) pray to you in the community of the Church, and be your witnesses in the world.

May the (we) reach old age in the company of their (our) friends and each other, and come at last to the kingdom of heaven.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Father, in my heart love has come alive for a person you made, and whom you too know and love. It was you who brought me to meet her/him and come to know her/him, as once, in paradise, you brought Eve and Adam together so that man should not remain alone. I thank you for this gift. It fills me with profound joy. It makes me like you, who are love itself, and brings me to understand the value of the life you have given me.

Help me not to squander the riches you have stored in my heart. Teach me that love is a gift that must not be suffocated by selfishness; that love is pure and strong and must not be soiled or corrupted; that love is fruitful and should, beginning even now, open up a new life for myself and the person who has chosen me.

Loving father, I pray for the person who is thinking of me and waiting for me, and who has placed in me complete trust for the future; I pray for this person who will walk along the path of life with me; help us to be worthy of one another and to be an encouragement and example to one another. Help us to prepare for marriage, for its grandeur and for its responsibilities, so that the love which fills us body and spirit may rule our lives for evermore. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

~ Prayer book for Spouses: Augustine Institute:

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