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​Prayer to the Holy Family
(from Amoris Laetitia)
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
in you we contemplate
the splendor of true love;
to you we turn with trust.

Holy Family of Nazareth,
grant that our families too
may be places of communion and prayer,
authentic schools of the Gospel
and small domestic churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may families never again experience
​violence, rejection and division;
may all who have been hurt or scandalized find ready comfort and healing.

​Holy Family of Nazareth,
make us once more mindful
of the sacredness and inviolability of the family, and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Graciously hear our prayer. ​Amen.
The Christian Treasury traces the origin of the family altar to the prophet Abraham erecting one in the Old Testament (Genesis 12:7). Since at least the 2nd century, believers, such as Hipparchus, hung or painted a Christian cross on the eastern wall of their home in order to indicate the eastward direction of prayer during the seven fixed prayer times. Prostrating in front of it, this cross was an expression of their undying belief in the coming again of Jesus and was united to their conviction that the cross, 'the sign of the Son of Man,' would appear in the eastern heavens on his return (see Matthew 24:30)