Let us join in heartfelt prayer and fasting for our families and our nation at this critical hour in history!  In addition to the beautiful prayer below, we can invoke holy married saints:  Saints Joseph and Mary (parents of Jesus), Joachim and Anna (grandparents of Jesus, parents of his mother Mary) along with the newly-beatified Louis and Zelie Martin (parents of St. Therese, the Little Flower).  May these married saints help us protect marriage and protect our daughters with the passage of Props 8 and 4.

 

PLEASE VOTE YES ON PROPOSITIONS 8 AND 4.

 

 

 

Triune Lord of Life and Love,

Bless husbands and wives

With the graces

To be life-giving lovers

And life-loving givers.

As generous and responsible parents,

Who respect children

As the most excellent fruit of marriage.

May every marital embrace

Be free, total, faithful

And open to life.

May the dark scourge

Of self-centered anxiety,

Contraception, sterilization, abortion,

And every other sin against the

Sacred meaning of human sexuality,

Be vanquished by your healing Mercy,

Coupled with graces

To faithfully live

The glorious beauty of your purpose

For marriage and family,

In the image of the Holy Family,

Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

And in your own Image:

Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Amen*