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Praying together not only enriches family life but also leads the Catholic family toward its primary goal: the holiness and salvation of each member. This wonderful little book provides a simple and easy-to-implement plan for family prayer. Arranged successively according to the basic stages of prayer, A Short Guide to Praying as a Family allows each family to progress step by step from one level of prayer to the next. Beautiful stained-glass images invite you to enter the mystery of each prayer and give glory to God as a family. Designed to be used throughout the day, this book will help your family speak to God, turn to Him for help, listen to Him, and praise Him. What better gift could you give them? Compiled by The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, this little book is backed by a strong Catholic tradition rooted in teaching the faith. From making time to recite basic oral prayers throughout the day to making each moment of life a prayer, A Short Guide to Praying as a Family is a lifelong guide to the spiritual life and a powerful means to building a relationship with the Lord.
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D OMINICAN S ISTERS OF S AINT C ECILIA C ONGREGATION
N ASHVILLE, T ENNESSEE
Nihil Obstat: Thomas Joseph White, O.P., S.T.L., D. Phil.
Censor Librorum
Imprimatur: David R. Choby, D.D., J.C.L.
Bishop of Nashville
August 27, 2014
The Nihil Obstat and the Imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal and moral error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and the Imprimatur agree with the opinions expressed.
Text 2015 by St. Cecilia Congregation, LBP Communications. All rights reserved.
LBP Communications bases its name on the Dominican Orders motto, Laudare, Benedicere, Praedicare, which means to praise, to bless, to preach.
All photographs of stained glass herein 2015 by Father Lawrence Lew, O.P., unless otherwise noted.
The Stained Glass Tradition 2015 by Denis McNamara, Ph.D.
Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All rights reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America Copyright 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with Permission.
Every effort has been made to obtain and provide proper source attributions for selections in this volume. If any attribution is incorrect, the publisher welcomes written documentation supporting correction for subsequent printings.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61890-682-3
Paperbound ISBN: 978-1-681890-683-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61890-684-7
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Saint Benedict Press, LLC
PO Box 410487
Charlotte, NC 28241
www.SaintBenedictPress.com
T O O UR B LESSED M OTHER M ARY,
Q UEEN OF F AMILIES,
H ELP OF THE W EAK,
AND S TAR OF THE N EW E VANGELIZATION
LET HIM ENTER, THE KING OF GLORY!
A rchimedes, the ancient Greek scientist, once said that if he had a fulcrum and a long enough lever, one small man could move the world. Children and families are not levers. Theyre human beings. Theyre persons, not objects. But Archimedes words are still useful. The formation that spouses give to each other and to their childrenif its done with love, courage, tenderness, and persistencecan move the world and change society.
This is why the greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother. And of course the same applies to mothers loving their husbands. Personal example is the most powerful teacher in the world. Children see everything, and they understand far more than adults often think. If parents love each other, children see and learn love. They learn fidelity instead of broken promises; patience instead of restlessness; simplicity in place of confusion; humility instead of pride; courage in place of cowardice; honesty instead of excuses; forgiveness in place of revenge; a hunger for justice in place of apathy.
And if parents love God, children see and learn faith. Parents who pray together teach by the way they live that God is real; that He is present, listening, and eager to be part of our lives. Helping children learn the habit of prayer thus becomes one of the most important lessons a family can share. A life of prayer makes us fully human because it makes us real; it brings us out of ourselves, again and again, into conversation with the Author of life Himselfthe God who made and loves us, and created everything we know.
I ts no secret that Ive admired the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia for many years. The reason is simple. In the larger family of God we call the Church, the Sisters embody by their daily example every virtue that makes a family beautiful and filled with life. But they also teach by what they speak and write, edit and publishand this volume, A Short Guide to Praying as a Family, is wonderful and very practical proof.
Archimedes never found the lever he needed. The Sisters remind us that Christian families already have one. Family prayer can move the world.
The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput,
Archbishop of Philadelphia
We would like to express our gratitude to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., D.D., for his love and support of Catholic families and his support for this Short Guide to Praying as a Family. We would also like to thank our own Bishop, David R. Choby, D.D., J.C.L., for his outstanding leadership and guidance. Our special thanks go to Father Lawrence Lew, O.P., Denis R. McNamara, Ph.D., Father Thomas Joseph White, O.P., D.Phil., Melvin Laurel, J.D., Lisa Julia Hill-Sutton, Virginia Raguin, Ph.D., the Richard and Margaret Kennedy Family, Richard and Maureen Herman, the Paul E. Husak Family, and Aquinas College (Nashville), who have helped to make this book possible. We are grateful for all the families we serve as well as those we have had the privilege of serving. Finally, we are most grateful to our own parents, who first taught us how to pray.
P rayer is as simple and natural as friendship. It is loving conversation with the Lord, with Him whom we know loves us.
Beginning to pray as a family can genuinely transform your life, enriching not only your relationship with the Lord but also your relationships with one another. Prayer can change the way you see the ordinary circumstances of your daily life. You begin to see disappointments as perhaps Gods way of leading you to new and better opportunities, joys as a share in the life of heaven, and sufferings as a way to enter into the mystery of Jesus own suffering for us on the Cross. The closer we are to the Lord in prayer, the more we realize that He is present with us, walks with us, in our daily lives. We begin to see as He sees and to love as He loves. Thank you for your faith. Thank you for picking up this book, for desiring to draw your whole family closer to God. [T]he Lord takes pleasure in those... who put their hope in his mercy (cf. Ps 147:11), and [t]he Lord is good... to the one that seeks him (cf. Lam 3:25).
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