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Summary
- Morning and evening prayers, and short prayers for his health, work, stress, faith, integrity and big decisions, suit a husband, fiancé or boyfriend.
- Prayers for the couple cover an argument (Ephesians 4:26), time apart, the future together and a love that lasts (1 Corinthians 13:7).
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the Book of Tobias (Sara’s prayer, Tobias 8:10), the Orthodox marriage service in Hapgood’s 1906 translation and the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers.
- Christian teaching forbids charms and spells to force love (Deuteronomy 18:10–11; Catechism of the Catholic Church 2117); prayer for a man can ask for his good and for God’s will.
- Anyone threatened or hurt by a partner can call the US National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233) or, in England, Refuge’s helpline (0808 2000 247).
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Deuteronomy 18:10–11; Psalm 90:17; 121:7; 127:1; Proverbs 3:5–6; 10:9; Song of Solomon 8:7; 1 Corinthians 13:7; Ephesians 4:26; 3 John 1:2). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- Tobias 8:10 is quoted from the Douay-Rheims Bible, Project Gutenberg eBook no. 1581. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Rite of Holy Matrimony, pp. 293 and 300. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Sacrament of Matrimony, “Prayer of One about to be Married,” pp. 435–436; “A Wife’s Prayer,” pp. 451–452; “A Prayer to be said by Husband or Wife,” p. 452. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraph 2117. https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM
- National Domestic Violence Hotline. https://www.thehotline.org/
- GOV.UK. “Domestic abuse: how to get help.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
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