Parent’s Prayer
Most loving Father, the example of parenthood,
You have entrusted our children to us to bring them up for you
and prepare them for everlasting life.
Assist us with your grace, that we may fulfill this sacred duty with competence and love.
Teach us what to give and what to withhold.
Show us when to reprove, when to praise and when to be silent.
Make us gentle and considerate, yet firm and watchful.
Keep us from the weakness of indulgence and excess of severity.
Give us the courage to be disliked sometimes by our children,
when we must do necessary things which are displeasing in their eyes.
Give us the imagination to enter their world in order to understand and guide them.
Grant us all the values we need to lead them by word and example
in ways of wisdom and love.
One day, with them, may we enter into the joys of our true and everlasting home
with you in heaven.
Amen