O Saint Benedict and Saint Scholastica, you were brother and sister, and you both became saints. In remembrance of your fraternal friendship, please come to help our families, so that they may be as united as you in one same faith and same love of God, and that they may become households of holiness.

By the merits of your life, entirely consecrated to Christ, obtain that we may follow the path of the Gospel and faithfulness to the Church, and that we may seek God together, through religious practice and communal prayer. Following your example, may our families pray frequently to progress in unity and love.

Help us live in esteem and mutual respect, seeing Christ Jesus in every one of our near ones. Make us more generous in forgiving, more attentive in listening, more open in receiving. May we preserve peace through charity.

You whose heart was so compassionate, comfort families in difficult situations, those under the trial of unemployment, sickness or loss of dear ones. Rescue the separated spouses, the unloved children, the abandoned parents. Protect the youth, preserve vocations. Watch over the safety of our homes, and implore for peace in every family of the world.

Stay near to us in the hour of our death, with Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and obtain that we may open ourselves to the mercy of God, so that He may grant us the grace to be reunited with you in Heaven and live eternally happy with Our Father most kind, and His Son, Christ Jesus our Brother, and their Spirit of Love.

Amen.”