My husband is 43, today!!! This is a picture of him at our eldest daughter’s nuptials — July 2020.
I pray in thanksgiving for him, ask that God may grant him many more years, and offer the following prayer for him, our marriage, and our children. 🙏🏼
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Thou didst institute marriage in the in the earthly Paradise and in the New Law Thou didst elevate it to the dignity of a sacrament, attaching to it many graces.
Grant to my husband and me the grace to live holy in so sacred a state and, by the practice of Catholic virtues, to act always as is becoming a Catholic couple.
As Thy minister joined our hands at the holy altar, so may we journey through life with one heart and soul, tasting its pleasures with moderation, enduring its sorrows with resignation and, at all times, mutually assisting and consoling each other.
May Thy true and holy fear strengthen us to restrain the low desires of the flesh, and to serve Thee uprightly with pure heart and eyes and lips, in mutual esteem and forbearance!
Grant that the children born of our union may be pure of heart and well-disposed in mind, and that they may gladly walk in the way of Thy Commandments.
Teach us to be faithful images of the Holy Family of Nazareth, of the blessed foster-father Joseph, of the most devout Mother Mary, the most blessed Mother of the Child Jesus, that we may be made worthy to live under their protection, to die in their favor, and to be forever blessed in their society.
Amen.
Sts. Lawrence, Joseph, Christopher, Peter, Vincent Ferrrer, Helena, Elizabeth of Hungary, Michael, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Marcella, Clare, Alexandria, Alexandra, Matthew, Gabriel, Raphael, Agnes, George, Maria, Januarius, Cajetan, Gavinus, and Peter — ORATE PRO NOBIS.
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