My Family Prayer Book

 2026-09-20 Twenty-fifth Sunday of the year   Opening prayer Good and gracious Lord of the Vineyard, You call us at every hour of the day, and your generosity knows no measure of our merit. As we open our hearts to your word this day, free us from the envy that counts another's blessing as our loss, and from the pride that believes we have earned  your mercy, which you give freely. Teach us that our ways are not your ways, and our thoughts are not your thoughts. Help us to rejoice when your goodness falls on others as it falls on us - just like the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Teach us to trust that the last will be first, and the first will be last, in your unending love. Open our ears now to hear what you would say to us, and open our hearts to receive it with gratitude, and not with calculation. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.   Prayer for healing : Heavenly Father, we surrender our loved one and friends who are in need of healing to your lo...

 2026-08-02 Eighteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time Opening Prayer Lord Jesus, You looked on the hungry crowd with compassion, and where Your disciples saw only lack, You saw an opportunity for grace. Five loaves, two fish — so little, yet in Your hands it became more than enough. Teach us to bring You what we have, however small it seems, and to trust that You do not need our abundance, only our willingness to offer it. When we are tempted to hold back, to say "it isn't enough," remind us that You multiply what is given in faith, and that nothing offered to You is wasted. Feed us, Lord, as You fed the crowd that day — not only in body, but in spirit, for we are often like that crowd: hungry, unsettled, far from home, searching for someone to teach us and to satisfy the deeper hunger we carry. Gather what remains of our scattered efforts, our broken pieces, and let nothing be lost. Make of our life, however small, a gift that feeds others. Amen. Prayer for healing : Heavenly ...

  2022-May-15: Fifth Sunday of Easter   Opening prayer Lord our God, we bless you. As we come together to ponder the Scriptures, we ask you in your kindness to fill us with the knowledge of your will so that, pleasing you in all things, we may grow in every good work. We ask this through Christ our Lord. R/. Amen At this moment I would like to remember lift up our brother Norm Rousseau to our Lord with this little prayer: Go forth, Christian soul, from this world in the name of God the almighty Father, who created you, in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for you, in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon you, go forth, faithful Christian. May you live in peace this day, may your home be with God in Zion, with Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, with Joseph, and all the Angels and Saints. Acts 14:21-27 St Luke's book of The Acts of the Apostles describes St Paul’s apostolic mission in simple yet comprehensive terms: he was to be sent “far...

  Seventeenth Sunday Opening prayer Lord open our eyes that we may see you in our brothers and sisters. Lord open our ears that we may hear the cries of the hungry, the cold, the frightened, te oppressed Lord open our hearts that we may love each other as you love us Renew in us your Spirit Lord, free us and make us one in you Amen. 2 Kings 4:42-44 ​​The two books of Kings, which conclude Deuteronomy, present a 400 year historical period of ancient Israel and Judah, from the death of King David to the return from imprisonment in Babylon. Both Elijah and Elisha were major prophets of the Old Testament testifying for Yahweh against the Canaanite God Baal. Elijah was told in a dream that Elisha, a mere farmer, was to be his successor. Elisha leaves his home and follows his mentor Elijah. He also watches as Elijah is taken up to heaven in a chariot. Elisha is connected with 5 miracles and symbolic acts concerned with food.  For the first miracle, Elisha is able to give security to...