God Almighty, Our Father, blessed and glorified are You for the gift of family life.

We pray You to let our families become a clear symbol of Your eternal love.

May Spouses learn to build day after day a real, patient and humble love, and may they be a model of Your alliance to their children: always ready to share and to forgive.

Grow trust in the heart of children, and the desire to commit their lives to Your will. May they find in their youth the energy to discover the happiness and freedom that You planned them to enjoy.

Lord Jesus, look with kindness on families experiencing hardships: material issues, separation, illness and death. You give us life in Your Eucharist: come inhabit us and grow in us Your peace and joy.

Holy Spirit, give us the strength to persevere in our faith, to live each day by Your mercy, to face challenges. Let us become brothers and sisters to those who do not know the warmth of family.

Open our hearts to Your will, come enlighten our decisions and unite our lives to work for Your Kingdom.

Holy Trinity, come lift up our spouses, our parents, our priests and tomorrow’s faithful servants.

Amen.”