Category: 天主的照顧

Dear father,

I lift my aging parents to you today and ask that you help them navigate the fears, overwhelm and challenges that come with this new season of life with ease. Take away every form of anxiety about their future and give them the courage and grace to face each new day with strength and gratitude.

Lord, surround them with your love and faithfulness in tangible ways. May they experience your goodness and mercies in their lives like never before. Fill their hearts with your joy and peace. Help them to embrace their aging years with their faith in God intact while keeping eternity in view.

Point them to your truth and wisdom and may your word and presence be their anchor and guiding light as they live out their remaining days on earth. Father help them to ponder through their lives and show them where they need to make amends and choose forgiveness. I pray that you who has sustained and kept them till this point will keep them whole and strong for the rest of their days. Amen!

Oneinspiredmum

7 Simple Prayers for Your Aging Parents and the Elderly

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? – Matthew 6:26
Dear Father,

I pray for our aging parents and the elderly amongst us, that you will supply all that they need to navigate this season of life. Meet their daily needs and show them your goodness and favor.

I pray that the finances to meet their physical, material and health needs will always be available as and when due. Empower and bless their children and loved ones financially so that they will have more than enough to care for them.

Lord, even as you feed and care for the birds of the air, I pray that these ones will not suffer hunger, shelter or lack. You will send helpers and strong support systems into their lives who will show them kindness in their old age. I thank you heavenly father for a constant supply of the needed care, finances, love and support in this season of their lives. Amen!

Oneinspiredmum
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Grant, O Lord of life,
That we may savor every season of our lives as a gift
filled with promise for the future.
Grant that we may lovingly accept your will,
and place ourselves each day in your merciful hands.
And when the moment of our definitive “passage” comes,
grant that we may face it with serenity,
without regret for what we shall leave behind.
For in meeting you,
after having sought you for so long,
we shall find once more every authentic good
which we have known here on earth,
in the company of all who have gone before us
marked with the sign of faith and hope.
Mary, Mother of pilgrim humanity,
pray for us “now and at the hour of our death.”
Keep us ever close to Jesus,
your beloved Son and our brother,
the Lord of life and glory. Amen!

Cf. Pope John Paul II, Letter to the Elderly © 1999 Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City.