Married Couple’s Prayer Lyrics

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 Your Spotless
Bride, The Church, And Have Given
Yourself Up For Her.

Bestow Upon Us That Mutual Love
And Christian Forbearance 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.

**(see Note Below)
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 The Divine
Image Of Your Mystic Union With
Your Holy Church, As You Have
Deigned To Imprint It Upon Us
On The Auspicious Day Of Our
Being Made One.

Grant, We Beseech 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 You Through Everlasting Ages.

Amen.

(** If There Are No Children,
The Prayer From This Point Reads:

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 The Divine Image
Of Your Mystic Union With Your
Holy Church, As You Have Deigned
To Imprint It Upon Us On The
Auspicious Day Of Our Being Made
One, And So Living, May Both Of
Us Ascend Into Heaven, And Merit
To Praise You And Bless You Forever.

Amen.)