Blessings of the New Year, Prayer Warriors!
Peace to your heart, as you begin anew.
Rest in the Lord and learn to love the treasures in His heart. Bring this peace into your family. Pray with them and for them. Together, pray for the
preservation of family as Christ intended it.
No one should ignore
or underestimate the decisive role of the family, which is the basic cell of
society from the demographic, ethical, pedagogical, economic and political
standpoints. The family has a natural vocation to promote life: it accompanies
individuals as they mature and it encourages mutual growth and enrichment
through caring and sharing. The Christian family in particular serves as a
seedbed for personal maturation according to the standards of divine love. The
family is one of the indispensable social subjects for the achievement of a
culture of peace. ...Without the family humanity has no future; young
people in particular need to learn the values that give meaning to life, they
need to be born into and grow up in that community of life and love which God
Himself desired for men and women. -Pope Benedict
All families need God.
Every single one. We need His help, His
strength, His blessing, His mercy and His forgiveness. It takes simplicity to pray as a family,
simplicity is needed…. -Pope Francis
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Start the year off right.
Pass it on!
