Home and Friends — Family Life (1)
E. C. Ratcliff*Almighty God and heavenly Father, whose Son Jesus Christ was subject to Mary and Joseph at Nazareth, and shared there the life of an earthly home: Send down thy blessing, we beseech thee, upon all Christian families. Grant to parents the spirit of understanding and wisdom, and to children the spirit of obedience and true reverence; and so bind each to each in thy love that every Christian family may be an image of the Holy Family, and every Christian home a school of heavenly knowledge and virtuous living; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
