A Parent’s Prayer of Stewardship
Sep 04, 2023
Lord, I give you thanks for creating me and redeeming me. I give you thanks for allowing me to participate in your creative action through my children.
Assist me in teaching my children that you are with them in all aspects of their lives including their finances.
Help me to always show my children through my words and action that I believe:
- Divine Providence can provide.
- Divine Providence did provide.
- Divine Providence will provide.
Amen
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Mt 18:15-20
“We all go through times of tiredness and discouragement, especially when our prayers seem ineffective. But Jesus assures us: … God promptly answers his children, even though this doesn’t mean he will necessarily do it when and how we would like. Prayer does not work like a magic wand! It helps us keep faith in God, and to entrust ourselves to him even when we do not understand his will. In this, Jesus himself — who prayed constantly! — is our model.” — Pope Francis
More regularly, there is a monthly family Holy Hour where the children sit before the altar with one of the school’s Dominican sisters. Worship music is played in the background (this time, for my daughter, by Mom), and the children learn to pray with the sister’s accompaniment and witness. Each time, I feel I’m able to peer directly into the Gospels and see Jesus among his beloved children. You can sense that Christ — ever ancient, ever new — moves with the same mercy and power in our own nondescript corner of the world as he did in the rural villages of Galilee so many years ago.
“Work is a fundamental aspect of the human vocation. It is necessary for human happiness and fulfillment. It is intrinsic to responsible stewardship of the world.” — Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter on stewardship
Mt 18:15-20
“We all go through times of tiredness and discouragement, especially when our prayers seem ineffective. But Jesus assures us: … God promptly answers his children, even though this doesn’t mean he will necessarily do it when and how we would like. Prayer does not work like a magic wand! It helps us keep faith in God, and to entrust ourselves to him even when we do not understand his will. In this, Jesus himself — who prayed constantly! — is our model.” — Pope Francis
More regularly, there is a monthly family Holy Hour where the children sit before the altar with one of the school’s Dominican sisters. Worship music is played in the background (this time, for my daughter, by Mom), and the children learn to pray with the sister’s accompaniment and witness. Each time, I feel I’m able to peer directly into the Gospels and see Jesus among his beloved children. You can sense that Christ — ever ancient, ever new — moves with the same mercy and power in our own nondescript corner of the world as he did in the rural villages of Galilee so many years ago.
“Work is a fundamental aspect of the human vocation. It is necessary for human happiness and fulfillment. It is intrinsic to responsible stewardship of the world.” — Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter on stewardship
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