United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Chapter 28. Fourth Commandment: Strengthen Your Family • 385

PRAYER A Blessing by Parents for Their Children Father, inexhaustible source of life and author of all good, We bless and we thank you for brightening our communion of love by your gift of children. Grant that our children will find in the life of this family such inspiration that they will strive always for what is right and good and one day, by your grace, reach their home in heaven. . . . Amen.

— Book of Blessings , no. 190

• [Jesus] went down with [Mary and Joseph] and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. —Lk 2:51