Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed the wedding at Cana and made marriage a sign of Your love for the Church, bless us who are joined as husband and wife.
Grant us to love one another as You have loved us — patiently, faithfully, and to the end. When we are weary, make us gentle; when we are wronged, make us quick to forgive; when we are tempted to selfishness, remind us of the vows we made before Your altar.
Keep our love faithful and our home holy. Let us bear one another’s burdens, guard one another’s souls, and help one another to heaven. Bless the children You have given or may yet give us, and make our home a domestic church where Your name is honored.
And when our years are spent, let neither of us come to You alone, but bring us together at the last into the joy of Your Kingdom. Holy Family of Nazareth, pray for us. Amen.
This is a prayer for husband and wife to pray together — a daily renewal of the covenant they made at the altar. Its foundation is the wedding feast of Cana, where Our Lord worked His first miracle: "the beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee" (John 2:11). That He chose a wedding for His first sign has always been read by the Church as His blessing upon marriage, and His presence — with Mary at His side — as the true remedy when the wine of love runs low.
The prayer sets the real standard of married love, which is not romance but the Cross: "love one another as You have loved us… to the end." It names the daily labors that make a marriage holy — gentleness when weary, forgiveness when wronged, and the constant memory of the vows. St. Paul’s counsel, "Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2), is the ordinary work of husband and wife.
Above all it names the true end of a Catholic marriage: that the spouses "help one another to heaven" and raise their children in the faith, making the home a domestic church — the Church’s own name for the Christian family. The married saints show it is possible: Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse, were canonized together in 2015 precisely as a married couple who became holy through their marriage. And so the prayer’s deepest petition is that the two who became one may not be parted at the end, but come together into the joy of the Kingdom.
Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed the wedding at Cana and made marriage a sign of Your love for the Church, bless us who are joined as husband and wife.
Grant us to love one another as You have loved us — patiently, faithfully, and to the end. When we are weary, make us gentle; when we are wronged, make us quick to forgive; when we are tempted to selfishness, remind us of the vows we made before Your altar.
Keep our love faithful and our home holy. Let us bear one another’s burdens, guard one another’s souls, and help one another to heaven. Bless the children You have given or may yet give us, and make our home a domestic church where Your name is honored.
And when our years are spent, let neither of us come to You alone, but bring us together at the last into the joy of Your Kingdom. Holy Family of Nazareth, pray for us. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed the wedding at Cana and made marriage a sign of Your love for the Church, bless us who are joined as husband and wife.
Grant us to love one another as You have loved us — patiently, faithfully, and to the end. When we are weary, make us gentle; when we are wronged, make us quick to forgive; when we are tempted to selfishness, remind us of the vows we made before Your altar.
Keep our love faithful and our home holy. Let us bear one another’s burdens, guard one another’s souls, and help one another to heaven. Bless the children You have given or may yet give us, and make our home a domestic church where Your name is honored.
And when our years are spent, let neither of us come to You alone, but bring us together at the last into the joy of Your Kingdom. Holy Family of Nazareth, pray for us. Amen.