Prayers for Family & Vocation
A Prayer for Adult Children
A contemporary pastoral prayer in the tradition of St.
Father, my children are grown and out of my hands, and I am learning that they never were in them.
Keep them, Lord, where I cannot follow.
Give them work that means something, friends who tell the truth, and a way back to you if they have wandered.
Take from me the urge to manage their lives.
Let my voice be one they want to hear.
And when they suffer, let them not suffer alone. Amen.
Contemporary pastoral prayer in the tradition of St. Monica
About the prayer
Monica, who prayed seventeen years for her son Augustine. It is written for parents of grown children — for those watching from a distance, and especially for those whose children have left the faith or gone silent.
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