Day 2: Retreat for the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne

Wisdom on Love & Marriage:

The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of children. Christ the Lord raised marriage between the baptised to the dignity of a sacrament.

- Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1660

Prayer: Teach Us to Love

Father, you called us to found this family together. Give us the grace to animate it with your love: may our family always comfort those who live in it and welcome those who enter it. Teach us to make progress in your sight through our love for each other, to do your will all the days of our life, to submit our plans to you, to ask your help, to offer you our joys and sorrows, and to lead to you the children you give us. Lord, you are Love; we thank you for our love. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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Prayer to the Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, I come to you to consecrate myself and my entire family to your two hearts. I desire to renew the vows of my baptism and place each member of my family through an act of Faith, Hope and Love into loving union with the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. I dedicate myself and each member of my family to the Guardian Angels God has given each one of us. O Holy Guardian Angels, enlighten, guide and protect each one so as to lead us safely home to heaven. At Fatima, dear Mother of God, you appeared with St Joseph and the Child Jesus, blessing the world. O Holy Family, bestow blessings upon me and my entire family so that we may live the Christ-life. I desire that each member of my family adore always the Most Blessed Trinity and love our God in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Grant peace to each member of my family. Keep each one in the grace of Jesus Christ. Never permit any of my family to stray from the true faith and for any member who has strayed, I beseech you to bind up the wounds, lift up the fallen, and keep each of our loved ones in grace. Bid them come back to their Father's true home. Amen.

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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6