- 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
Moving
May your blessing rest on the new home whose life begins today.
Sanctify it with your presence, and fill it with peace and love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Lord bless us and protect us.
Lord, smile on us and show us your favour.
Lord, befriend us and prosper us.
Ruth Etchells, England. Prayers Encircling the World
God of hope, you hold us all our days.
Give us courage to let go of all that would hold us back
and weigh us down on our journey.
Move us on to embrace the future you lay before us,
to step out in faith and trust into the unknown.
Calm our fear,
and strengthen us for all that is hard to leave
and will be missed.
Give us grace to rejoice
with thankful hearts in your love
that is always with us
and never loosens its grip;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Ian Black, Prayers for all Occasions.
Come, Lord Jesus,
into my heart and home.
You are a welcome guest.
Feast at my table,
drink of my wine.
Thank you for your friendship.
Please stay with me
now and always.
Josephine Bax, England. Prayers Encircling the World
Bless, O Lord, this home
that it may be a place of rest to refresh,
of hospitality to delight in good company,
a space to be, to know and feel secure.
Keep in peace all who dwell here
and send them out to live to your praise and glory. Amen.
Ian Black, Prayers for all Occasions.
Good Lord,
just as you were pleased to relax,
in the home of Martha and Mary,
abide also, we pray, in our homes.
William N Richards and James Richardson, Kenya. Prayers Encircling the World