We all want what is best for our families, providing for them and protecting them from any dangers. Do we regularly pray for those blessings?
Here is a prayer from the Catholic Marriage Manual that asks God to shower his blessings upon your family.
O God of goodness and mercy,
We commend our family and all that is ours
to your fatherly protection; we confide all to your love.
Fill our house with your blessings,
even as you filled the holy house of Nazareth with your presence.
Before all else keep sin far from it.
Reign over us by your law, by your most holy love,
and by the exercise of every Christian virtue.
Let each of us obey you, love you and study how to copy in his own life your example,
that of Mary your Mother and our Mother, most loving
and that of your blameless guardian Saint Joseph.Amen.
And today we celebrate...