Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers

by Inc. United StatesCatholic Conference

Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers has become a treasured companion for Catholics everywhere. Growing out of the long-standing tradition that faith begins and is nurtured in the home-the domestic Church-this handsomely bound, copiously illustrated work contains a wealth of inspiration. Included are prayers and blessings for daily use as well as special occasions, and prayers that comfort, encourage, uplift, and inspire-blessed words everyone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555862209
• ISBN13: 9781555862206
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Catholic Blessings

Great book full of prayers for every occasion

Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers

Love this book, Love the Prayers and Blessings in it.

Essential item

This book contains all the essential prayers for Catholics (and non-catholics alike). The print is easily read, and the book is well organized. It is leather bound and substantial. It should last a very long time. R. Childs Alabama

Wonderful Book - Every Catholic home should have one!

This book is amazing. It is a must have for every Catholic household, I bought one for my family and one for my sister's family for Christmas. I will definently buy for other family members also! It is a great book to go to daily at family time to pray. It has daily prayers along with prayers for special reasons and for the different seasons. Excellent!!

Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers

I find this book to be very helpful in finding Prayers for different occasions in the life of an average person. It contains Blessings and Prayers for almost any encounter in life. It is a book that makes a nice gift for newlyweds, someone moving in to a new home, or anyone else. I purchased one for myself and one for a gift. It has a lot of Prayers that we have heard before, and some we may not have heard, but will find very beautiful. I keep mine on the coffee table along with my Bible and have had people pick it up and ask where I got it. A good Evangelizing tool.

Destined to Become a Family Heirloom

This newly revised Catholic prayer book from the U.S. Catholic Bishops is heavily weighted toward Scripture, with passages chosen specifically for almost every topic. Supplementary sources include the lectionary, works of several Catholic organizations, such as the Partnership on Disabilities, and official prayer books of other Christian denominations. Its leather binding, high quality paper, and easy to follow layout ensure that it will be a welcome addition to Catholic homes. In the introduction, Bishop Donald W. Trautman, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, writes that this resource can help us all fulfill the Gospel exhortation to "pray always (Lk 18:1). He urges families to "make it a part of family dinners and holiday celebrations, of bedtime routines and special occasions." Major topics are devoted to basic prayers, the kind most often committed to memory; daily prayers such as the morning offering and grace before and after meals; days and seasons of the Church year; Catholic living; litanies; and Stations of the Cross. A calendar of saints is also provided, as are two indexes, one of scriptural citations and the other of first lines and common titles. In Part IV, Family Prayers from Birth to Death, the bishops remind that "Whether in times of joy or times of grief, God is always with us." The subtopic on prayers and blessings for family members is centered on family members, the household, birth and adoption, childhood, marriage, sickness or infirmity, and death and grief. Part VI, Prayers for the Church and the World, address such topics as Christian unity, the culture of life, evangelization and missions, and social justice. Part VIII, God's Word in Times of Need is made up entirely of scripture passages grouped around issues such as anger; forgiveness; love; quiet; and trouble, crisis, and conflict.

NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE REPUBLICATION OF THIS EXCELLENT FAMILY RESOURCE REPLACES TWENTY YEAR OLD EDITI

Please notice this review refers to the recent (8/07) republication of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's excellent family prayer book, now leather bound and excellent for gifts and for daily multiple use in the home. The family that prays together stays together. Now with a sturdier binding and completely revised to include new prayers by the new popes, and to update the Liturgical calendar and cycle of feast days, and with expanded scriptural readings drawn from the liturgical cycles, this book of prayers deserves a central point in every home. It even contains a useful version of the Liturgy of the Hours in which all may gracefully partake. An excellent wedding gift, birth gift, new home gift, gift for anyone and for any family occasion, even for an old hermit like myself. The first section contains Basic and essential prayers, as well as prayers for before attending the Eucharistic celebration, Acts of the Theological Virtues (Faith Hope and Charity), Marian prayers, prayers for the sacrament of Reconciliation, plus pious invocations. The second section generously provdes daily prayers, including a great Liturgy of the Hours, prayers upon waking, prayers for meals, prayers at work, at service, at study and for almsgiving. Here we find prayers at noon, upon returning home and for bedtime. In the third section of this well-laden spiritual banquet we discover prayers of the seasons and day, including Sunday prayers, Advent, Christmas, Lenten and Easter prayers, plus other Feast days and US national holidays. The fourth section bears the title: Family prayers from birth to death, including blessings for family members, for the household, for times of sickness, for times of child-bearing (or adoption), blessings for childhood, for marriage and for grieving. The fifth section of this generous and comprehensive womb to tomb banquet holds prayers for Catholic Living, including decision making times, for departures, for arrivals, for school and work, for objects, for the weather, for other circumstances and prayers of intercession. Part six contains prayers for the Church and the world, including for Christian unity (ecumenism), our Church in need, a culture of Life, evangelization, our leaders, prayers for migrants and refugees, prayers for Peace, for persons with disabilities, prayers for Social Justice, for stewardship, for the Victims of Abuse, and a new prayer for vocations. Part seven consists of Litanies. The eighth section, an entirely new thematic section of Scriptural readings, presents God's Word in Times of Need, including anger, forgiveness, sickness and weariness, decision making, hope, doubt, fears, loss and grief, need and loneliness, Love (agape), thanksgiving, quiet, study and times of conflict. Section nine presents both the traditional and a scriptural Stations of the Cross. Part ten has the Calendar of the Saints. Several indices, including new useful ones by Scriptural reference and first line, conclude thi