Prayers For Our Children

If you were to ask a mother what her greatest fear was most likely she will

respond in some manner in regards to the safety and care of her children.

It does not change even when they become adults and even
when they have children of their own.

We mamas are a rare breed indeed. We have an innate sense of protecting our offspring at all costs. We will do whatever it takes to keep our children safe, loved, healthy and happy. 

Sometimes, at no fault of our own, we can not keep them safe from the evils of this complicated world we now live in. Sometimes all we can do is
drop on our knees and pray to God.

We pray, and beg, plead and bargain with God on behalf of our children. 

Do you know that a mother's prayers for her children are the strongest and fastest prayers to reach heavens door? It's true. God hears us and although He may not always answer our pleads and prayers exactly as we asked but we must always try to remember that He alwways has a divine plan and that we must learn to trust His will even when it breaks us and brings us to our knees in the deepest pain imaginable. We must trust that one day, when we go back to Him, we will come to understand His reasonings for our sufferings. In my heart I know that we are here to LOVE and LEARN in this life.

Everything we do can bring love and everything we experience we can learn from. Each lesson only brings us closer to God.  So keep on praying my dear friends and keep on leaning on each other but most importanly lean on God. 

REMEMBER, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother; to thee do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.

Here is a beautiful prayer from the Mother’s Manual, by Fr. A. Francis Coomes S.J.

Holy Mother Mary,
Who by virtue of your divine motherhood,
Hast become mother of us all
I place the charge which God has given me,
under your loving protection.
Be a Protecting Mother to my children.
Guard their bodies and keep them
in health and strength.
Guard their minds and keep their thoughts ever holy
in the sight of their Creator and God.
Guard their hearts and keep them pure and strong
and happy in the love of God.
Guard always their souls and ever preserve in them,
faithfully, the glorious image of God
whom they received in Holy Baptism.
Always Mother, protect them and keep them
under your Mothering care.
Supply in your all-wise motherhood,
for my poor human deficiencies
and protect them from all evil.
Amen.

Queen of the Most Holy Family,
Pray for us.