- Prayers for Occasions
- New Year
- Thanksgiving for the Birth of a Child
- Easter
- Harvest
- Remembrance Sunday
- Church Occasions
- Gap Year
- School Occasions
- Baptism and Confirmation
- Saying Grace
- Family Occasions
- Moving House
- Birthdays
- A Wedding
- A Funeral
Family Occasions
God our Mother and Father, be with us as we learn to see one another with new eyes, hear one another with new hearts, and treat one another in a new way.
Corrymeela Community, Ireland. Prayers Encircling the World
Father of all mankind, make the roof of my house wide enough for all opinions, oil the door of my house so it opens easily to friend and stanger and set such a table in my house that my whole family may speak kindly and freely around it.
Source unknown, Hawaii. The SPCK Book of Christian Prayer
Thanks be to God
for friends who share our joys and sorrows,
and in whose company we can delight and flourish.
From A General Thanksgiving by Ian Black, Prayers for all Occasions.
Visit we beseech thee most gracious Father, this family and household with thy protection. Let thy blessing descend and rest on all who belong to it. Guide us here, and hereafter bring us to thy glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John Charles Ryle, The SPCK Book of Christian Prayer
