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Summary
- Short prayers cover a father’s health, his safety, a sickness, growing old, work and money worries, decisions, his marriage and his faith.
- There is a prayer of thanks from a daughter, one from a son, and one for a father and child who are not speaking.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For the Recovery of a Sick Person,” p. 597; “For a Blessing on the Families of the Land,” p. 598) and the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (“For deceased Parents,” p. 593).
- A Bible prayer for a father uses Numbers 6:24–26 and Psalm 121:7; the command to honor father and mother (Exodus 20:12) is the “first commandment with promise” (Ephesians 6:2).
- Catholics and Orthodox pray for the souls of dead parents; most Protestants do not pray for the dead.
- Prayer for a sick father goes alongside his doctors’ care; emergency signs such as chest pain need a call to the emergency services first.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Exodus 20:12; Numbers 6:24–26; Psalm 71:18; 103:13; 121:7–8; Proverbs 3:5; 17:6; 20:7; Malachi 4:5–6; Ephesians 6:2; 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. Forms of Prayer to be Used in Families: “For the Recovery of a Sick Person,” p. 597; “For a Blessing on the Families of the Land,” p. 598. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.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. Various Prayers for the Dead, “For deceased Parents,” p. 593. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact Samaritans.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
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