Prayers
A Prayer for Pregnant Women
Good and Gracious God,
I hear and feel the sounds of a new beginning. Help me Lord to know, love and care for this child from the moment I learned the child is here. It is with great joy I welcome the child into my womb. Like Mother Mary in the Magnificat I am filled with the presence of the Lord, for myself my child and my husband. We have begun a new covenant with you Oh my God. We are preparing for the child by letting the child know how we wanted and cared for the thought of the child. May the child's life be filled with the joy of knowing/loving/and serving you. Help us to let the child know about you as much as we can and that the child's Godparents would assist in getting to know you, Oh Lord. We pray, Lord, for those who do not have good decisions to make, they are economically poor or feel unable to make the decision they want. Assist them in their decision so they too can live in your presence.
We ask you this in the name of the Father, His son and the Holy Spirit.
by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D Profiles in Catholicism
Prayer for Pregnant Women
Dearest Lord - As you look upon us with all of the challenges facing our world today, I beg you to help us to open our hearts and minds to your will. Among other problems, we are in desperate need of a better understanding of how to help the mothers of unborn children. Help us to find ways to meet the needs of pregnant women everywhere, whether they deal with job discrimination, health issues, coercion, family concerns, or other barriers to life. Help us to respect and love both mother and child. by Denise Mackura Profiles in Catholicism
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