Miscarriage

Prayers

A prayer for those who have lost a child through miscarriage

Your Presence in Our Loss
 
 Oh Holy Family, at the heart of heaven, dwelling
 |midst angels uncountable, we turn to you to welcome
 The innocent child who has come to you today.

We do not wholly understand the passing of one so
 Innocently lost and we entrust our child,
 Unbaptized and full of the beauty of beginning,
 Plunging into your fountainous love, nestling
 In your gathering, outstretched and embracing arms:

Named in the mystery of Love’s loving to bless:
 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
 Like the seed awakening in the soil,
 The dew-bright sparkling existence of the
 Gift of a child transplanted into eternal day
 To dwell amidst the extended family of all
 Utterly at peace, happy and blessed beyond telling.

Oh Holy Mother of God, Virgin Mother of Jesus,
 Take to your maternal heart the child whose life,
 Given without recall by the Creator-Father of all, and
 Enwrap this child, this mother and father and their loss,

In the folds of gentle love, tending tenderly their pain.
 Oh Joseph, virgin and spouse, foster-father of Jesus,
 You understood being with your wife and child
 Through all the difficulties of life, as long as you lived,
 Give encouragement, wisdom and most of all an
 Understanding heart to all husbands and fathers.

Oh Jesus Christ, Redeemer of all, opening what is closed,
 Take all our uncertainty, blame, guilt, recriminations,
 All the fruitless bitterness, belittling, and pain,
 And begin again the blessing of your love-in-us:
 The hope of helping others with your help to us.

Oh Holy Family, at the heart of heaven, dwelling
 Amidst angels unimaginable, we turn to you to turn
 Our mourning into rejoicing and your presence in our loss:
 Help us to hope on coming, too, to meet with love’s not lost,
 Filling our loss with over-spilling thanksgiving
 As we are reunited, as all are, with the company of the blessed.
 by Francis Etheredge Profiles in Catholicism

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