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Prayers for a Grandson: Protection, Faith, Health and His Birthday

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Summary

  • There are short prayers for a grandson’s protection, his own faith, wisdom and friends, the teenage years, his health, sickness, school and his future, for a grandson who has drifted from God, and for a new grandson or great-grandson.
  • Among its family prayers, the 1928 Book of Common Prayer has one “For a Birthday” that asks God to “watch over thy child, O Lord, as his days increase.”
  • Jacob blessed his grandsons Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 48:15–16), and Paul traced Timothy’s faith back to “thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice” (2 Timothy 1:5).
  • Catholic and Orthodox Christians honor Joachim and Anne, named in the second-century Gospel of James, as the grandparents of Jesus, and the Catholic World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly falls on the fourth Sunday of July.
  • We pray for a sick grandson alongside his doctors’ care, never in place of it.

Here is a prayer you can say for a grandson: “Lord, thank you for my grandson [name]. Keep him safe wherever he goes today, give him good friends and a clear head, and draw him to you so that his faith becomes his own. Bless his parents as they raise him. Amen.” There are more below, for his protection, his health, his teenage years and his birthday. Prayers for a grandson Wherever you see [name], say his name. Most of…

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  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 48:15–16; Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalm 91:11; 128:6; Proverbs 13:20; 17:6; Jeremiah 29:13; Luke 2:52; 2 Timothy 1:5, 7; Hebrews 11:21; 3 John 1:2). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Children,” p. 43; Family Prayer, “For Those We Love,” p. 597, and “For a Birthday,” pp. 597–598. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • Souvay, Charles. “St. Joachim.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08406b.htm
  • Vatican News. “Pope establishes World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.” 31 January 2021. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-01/pope-establishes-world-day-for-grandparents-and-the-elderly.html

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