Prayer for Catholic Engaged Couples
Congratulations on your engagement!
This is an important formation period and we encourage you to pray regularly, preferably daily, for your upcoming wedding and the commitment you will make. Here are two prayers you could use, or you can write your own!
Option 1
Heavenly Father, as we prepare for the Sacrament of Marriage, we seek your blessing.
We thank you for bringing us together and guiding us this far. Open our hearts to know more fully your desire for us and guide those who are forming us.
May we look to Christ as a model for our love, cherishing and respecting each other as he taught us.
And may your Holy Spirit lead us to deeper intimacy with you and each other that we might approach our wedding day with confidence and grace.
Amen.
[From SmartLoving.org ]
Option 2
Lord, as we prepare for the Sacrament of Marriage, we come to ask what you desire from us.
Guide us to know your will.
May we look to your love for us as our model of how we are to love each other.
Show us how to nourish and cherish each other as we would our own bodies.
Bring your strength to our weakness so that we might help each other grow into people you created us to be.
Enable us to grow in our intimacy with you and with each other so that we might experience the fullness of your love.
Thank you for the gift of marriage so that we can more fully understand your love for us.
Amen.
[From CatholicPhilly.com]
Option 3
Write your own and if you’d like to share it with others, post it in the comments below.
