My Family Prayer Book

 2026-10-25 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Opening prayer In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Loving Father, as we gather to reflect on the words of Jesus, open our hearts and minds to your truth. Teach us to love you with our whole heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. May our listening and conversation help us understand how these two commandments belong together and guide every part of our lives. Send your Holy Spirit to be with us and help us recognize your love in one another. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer for healing : Heavenly Father, we surrender our beloved sister Sue Pierce who is in need of healing to your loving care and miraculous healing. May the life-giving powers of your touch flow into every cell of her bodies and into the very depth of her soul, cleansing, purifying, and restoring her to wholeness and full life. Grant her the strength, courage, and patience to endure her suff...

  Thirtieth-first Sunday in Ordinary time Deuteronomy 6:2-6 Since Moses will not accompany Israel into Canaan, he takes great pain to stress what is important before he dies. What he leaves ringing in Israel’s ears and written before Israel’s eyes for future reading and hearing is the importance of the Lord’s instruction, command, statutes and ordinances–in a word, the Lord’s Torah. This reading in Hebrew is called the Shema, repeated twice a day, the core confession of faith in the Jewish tradition that occurs in a context in which the Israelites are standing at the border of the Promised Land : “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone”. It is sometimes called the "prosperity gospel": If you keep the commandments, it will go well with you, and you will flourish and become many in the Promised Land that is described as “a land flowing with milk and honey”  Love God. Love God with everything you are: heart, soul, strength. Love God with your life. To love God, then...