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Being a parent comes with many challenging and many beautiful moments. This prayer card asks the Lord to provide parents with the gifts required to raise Christ-like children.
Most loving Father, the example
of parenthood, teach us what to
give and what to withhold. Show
us when to reprove and when to
praise. Make us gentle and considerate
yet firm and watchful. Keep
us from weak indulgence, or from
great severity. Give us the courage
to be disliked sometimes by your children,
when we must do necessary
things which are displeasing in
their eyes. Give us the imagination
to enter into their world in order
to understand and guide them. Give
us all the virtues we need to lead
them by word and example in the
path of righteousness.