Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for husband and wife

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for husband and wife to say in their own behalf.



O most Sacred Heart of Jesus, King and center of all hearts, dwell in our hearts and be our King; grant us by Your grace to love each other truly and chastely, even as You have loved Our spotless Bride, the Chruch and have given Yourself up for her.

Bestow upon us that mutual love and Christian forebearance which are so highly acceptable in Your sight, and a mutual patience in bearing each other's defects; for we are certain that no living creature is free from them. Do not permit even the slightest defect to mar that full and gentle harmony of spirit, the foundation of the mutual assistance in the many and varied hardships of life, that is the end for which woman was created and united inseparably to her husband.

Grant, we bessech you, that our good example of Christian living may serve as a powerful inspiration to our children to conform their own lives to Your holy law; and finally, after this exile may we ascend into heaven, where by the help of Your grace, for which we earnestly pray, we may merit to be joined with our children forever and praise and bless Your through everlasting ages, Amen.


If there is no children, the prayer reads this in place of the last paragraph.
O Lord God, grant that between us there may reign a perpetual holy rivalry toward a life perfectly Christian, by virtue of which there may shine forth more and more clearly as You have deigned to imprint it upon us on the auspicious day of our being made one. Amen.