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Summary
- A short daily prayer asks God to keep a husband safe, healthy and faithful, and to help husband and wife forgive quickly.
- The 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers prints “A Wife’s Prayer” for her husband and marriage; the 1928 Book of Common Prayer supplies prayers for a married couple and for a sick person.
- Short prayers cover his health, safety on the road, trouble, work and job loss, faithfulness, wisdom and a husband who does not believe.
- Prayers for hard times cover an argument, anger, a husband who takes offense easily or goes silent, distance, belittling and heavy drinking.
- Prayer is no reason to stay in danger: the US National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233 (text START to 88788), and the UK lines are 0808 2000 247 (England), 0800 027 1234 (Scotland), 0808 80 10 100 (Wales) and 0808 802 1414 (Northern Ireland).
- Catholics ask the prayers of Saint Monica, whose husband became a Christian shortly before he died; Orthodox Christians pray to Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom, patrons of marriage.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Job 1:10; Psalm 46:1; 90:17; 121:8; Proverbs 10:9; 15:1; Ecclesiastes 4:12; Isaiah 40:31; Matthew 11:28; 1 Corinthians 7:14, 16; 13:5; Ephesians 4:26; James 1:5; 5:16; 1 Peter 3:1). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- 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. “A Wife’s Prayer,” pp. 451–452. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers and Thanksgivings, “For a Sick Person,” p. 45; The Solemnization of Matrimony, p. 303. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Augustine of Hippo. The Confessions of St. Augustine, Book 9. Translated by E. B. Pusey. Project Gutenberg eBook no. 3296. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3296
- Pope, Hugh. “St. Monica.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/St._Monica
- Orthodox Church in America. “Saints Peter and Fevronia (tonsured David and Euphrosyne), Wonderworkers of Murom.” Lives of the Saints, June 25. https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2024/06/25/101811-saints-peter-and-fevronia-tonsured-david-and-euphrosyne-wonderwo
- “Conversation (n.).” Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/conversation
- 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
