Prefekt Dikasterija kardinal Joseph Kevin Farell istaknuo je kako je “molitva način prodiranja u samu srž Godine Amoris Laetitia, koja će se zaključiti Svjetskim susretom obitelji iduće godine.

Generalni vikar Rimske biskupije kardinal Angelo de Donatis poručio je i kako će molitva biti u samom središtu pripreme za susret obitelji. “Ona će voditi naš rad te nadahnuti razmatranja kako bismo u svjetlu vjere prepoznali nove izazove koje postavlja pandemija pred crkvenim zajednicama kada je riječ o obitelji”. Zbog toga poziva sve obitelji neka u svome domu i župnoj zajednici mole tu molitvu kao pripravu za susret.

Molitva je nadahnuta temom susreta “Obiteljska ljubav: poziv i put svetosti”. U njoj se moli Gospodina da blagoslovi sve obitelji, kako bi kao male kućne Crkve uvijek svjedočile njegovu prisutnost. Također se moli za sve obitelji koje pate, djecu i mlade te roditelje, bake i djedove.

Donosimo molitvu za susret na engleskom jeziku:

Family Love: Vocation and Path to Holiness

 

Heavenly Father,

We come before You to praise You

and to thank You for the great gift of the family.

We pray to You for all families

consecrated by the Sacrament of Matrimony.

May they rediscover each day

the grace they have received,

and as small domestic Churches,

may they know how to witness to Your presence

and to the love with which Christ loves the Church.

We pray to You for all families faced with difficulty and suffering

caused by illness or circumstances of which only You know.

Sustain them and make them aware

of the path to holiness upon which You call them,

so that they might experience Your infinite mercy

and find new ways to grow in love.

We pray to You for children and young people:

may they encounter You and respond joyfully

to the vocation You have in mind for them;

We pray for parents and grandparents: may they be aware

that they are signs of the fatherhood and motherhood of God

in caring for the children who, in body and spirit, You entrust to them;

and for the experience of fraternity

that the family can give to the world.

 

Lord, grant that each family

might live their specific vocation to holiness in the Church

as a call to become missionary disciples,

in the service of life and peace,

in communion with our priests, religious,

and all vocations in the Church.

 

Bless the World Meeting of Families.

Amen.

 

Official prayer for the X World Meeting of Families

22-26 June 2022