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Vocation Prayer for Parents
Pope John Paul II
O Holy Family of Nazareth, community of love of Jesus,
Mary and Joseph, model and ideal of every Christian family,
to you we entrust our families.
Open the heart of every family to the faith, to welcoming
the word of God, to Christian witness, so that it become a
source of new and holy vocations.
Touch the hearts of parents, so that with prompt charity,
wise care, and loving devotion they be for their sons and
daughters sure guides towards spiritual and eternal values.
Stir up in the hearts of young people a right conscience
and a free will, so that growing in "wisdom, age and grace",
they might welcome generously the gift of a divine vocation.
Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that all of us, contemplating
and imitating the assiduous prayer, generous obedience,
dignified poverty and virginal purity lived out in your midst,
might set about fulfilling the will of God and accompanying
with far-sighted sensitivity those among us who are called to
follow more closely the Lord Jesus, who "has given himself for us"
(cf. Gal 2:20).
Amen!
26 December 1993
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