Opening Prayer
Together:
+ O God, to fall in love with You is the greatest romance, to seek You, the greatest adventure, to find You, the greatest human achievement.
*Pick one of the two below. Repeat it when you do another guide until it’s memorized, then do the next one.
The Greatest Commandment Prayer (The Shema)
- Teach us to live out Your greatest commandment: “Listen! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” -Deu 6:4-5*
*When Jesus was a boy, St Joseph taught Him to memorize and pray always these words.
Jesus told Venerable Sister Consolata Betrone: “The more that you love Me, the happier you will be!”
Choose Life & Blessing Prayer
- Help our family choose life: “Today, I set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life by loving God, obeying His voice and clinging to Him!” -Deu 30:19-20
Hail Mary…
Come Holy Spirit, help us to discover the treasure of delighting in our relationships within our family! +Amen
The kids and I loved the buried treasure video….it brought tears to my eyes. It also brought great joy to recall my proposal to my wife and to share that experience with the kids. They enjoyed hearing about it…my 8 year old said, “I wish I could have been there.”
Awesome! We just did that guide too. My older kids remembered our proposal story, though I filled in more detail. Maria added details from her perspective that I never knew! Funny how that happens 30 yrs later. The younger kids hadn’t heard the story. So, it was really cool to share it with them.