Prayers of thanksgiving that can be used during Marriage Week.
A simple prayer of thanksgiving for the vocation to marriage:
Lord, we pray in thanksgiving for the vocation to marriage
and for each couple that you join together to make a family.
We ask that every marriage brings each couple closer to you and to holiness.
We pray for those who are struggling in their marriage,
that they can make it through this tough time
and find hope and consolation in You.
We pray that this Jubilee year can be a year of hope for marriages,
with your gentle guiding hand through each
action, decision, discussion and event.
We make this prayer through Christ, your Son, our Lord.
Amen.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers two prayers – one for a couple, and one for more than one couple.
For one couple:
O God, who in creating the human race
willed that man and wife should be one,
keep, we pray, in a bond of inseparable love
those who are united in the covenant of Marriage,
so that, as you make their love fruitful,
they may become, by your grace, witnesses to charity itself.
Through Christ our Lord
Amen.
For more than one couple:
Almighty and eternal God,
You blessed the union of married couples
so that they might reflect the union of Christ
with his Church:
look with kindness on them.
Renew their marriage covenant,
increase your love in them,
and strengthen their bond of peace
so that, with their children,
they may always rejoice in the gift of
your blessing.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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As we begin Marriage Week, we invite you to pray this novena each day for the vocation of marriage.
In the Scriptures, marriage develops as a divinely ordained covenant between a man and a woman which sustains physical, emotional and spiritual intimacy.
