Prayers for Marriage
These prayers are for the marriage you are actually in — including the difficult stretch, the distance, and the argument that keeps recurring.
Some are for praying together as a couple; others are for praying alone about a spouse who is not praying with you.
7 prayers
- A Prayer for a Marriage
This prayer comes from the marriage rite of the Book of Common Prayer, whose central petitions Thomas Cranmer composed in 1549 and later…
- A Prayer for a Troubled Marriage
A contemporary pastoral prayer for marital difficulty. It follows the biblical pattern of asking God to change the one praying first…
- A Prayer for a Wedding Day
A nuptial blessing in the tradition of the Roman Rite and the Book of Common Prayer marriage service, both of which frame marriage as a…
- Blessing for a Wedding Anniversary
A blessing for a married couple giving thanks for the years past and asking grace for the years ahead.
- Novena to Saint Anne
Prayed for nine consecutive days, usually leading up to St. Anne's feast on July 26. Devotion to the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary is…
- Prayer to St. Rita, Patron of Impossible Causes
St. Rita of Cascia (1381-1457) endured an abusive marriage and the violent deaths of her husband and sons before entering the Augustinian…
- The Nuptial Blessing
The solemn blessing pronounced over a bride and groom in the Christian marriage rite.