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Prayer to the Holy Family
Devotion to the Holy Family draws Catholics toward the hidden life of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph at Nazareth. This traditional prayer, found in various older prayer books and devotional collections, asks that Christian homes reflect their unity, charity, and peace. The three concluding invocations are especially associated with prayer for a happy death. Catholics often recite them daily, trusting the Holy Family for assistance at the final hour. The prayer is suitable for personal use and for families seeking God’s grace amid ordinary duties, weaknesses, and trials. It also encourages every household to keep God at the center of its common life.
O Holy Family of Nazareth, model of all Christian families, make our family one with you.
Help us to be instruments of peace.
Grant that love, strengthened by grace, may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass.
May we always have God at the center of our hearts and homes until we are all one family, happy and at peace in our true home with you.
Amen.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
When to pray it: Pray it daily for the holiness of your family and for the grace of a happy death.
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