A Prayer For Family Commitment

Dear God our Father, you have called all Christian families
to be a sign of your love to the world.
 
Help us to be generous with the gifts of life and love that you have showered on our family.
May we share them so that our homes become true signs of unitive and fruitful love.
 
Let us never forget to thank you each day
for all that sustains us and to look to Christ,
who comes to us in the events of family life,
in the Sacraments of the Church, and in service to the poor.
 
In all of this, our family becomes a living expression of your Church,
a hollowed home of life and love. By the power of the Holy Spirit,
may all of us --- spouses, parents, and children --- share, as members
of his Body, in Jesus' mission to build a civilization of love. Father, we ask this
in Jesus' name in union with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

A Prayer for Catechist

O God our Heavenly Father,
you have given us the gift of these catechists to be
heralds of the Gospel to our parish family.
We lift them up to you in thanksgiving
and intercede for them concerning their
hopes and needs.