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Prayers for Your Granddaughter: From Her Birth to Her Own Grown-Up Life

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Summary

  • The priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 can be said over a granddaughter at any age.
  • Short prayers cover her birth, her faith, safety, illness, starting school, worry about her looks, drifting from God, her future, living far apart, trouble at home and the grandparent’s own prayer.
  • The 1928 Book of Common Prayer has a prayer “For a Birthday” and one “For Those We Love”; Jacob’s blessing on his grandsons in Genesis 48:15–16 can be adapted for a granddaughter.
  • Naomi nursed her grandson Obed, David’s grandfather (Ruth 4:16–17), and Paul traced Timothy’s faith to his grandmother Lois (2 Timothy 1:5).
  • Catholics and Orthodox honor Joachim and Anne as the grandparents of Jesus; their names come from the second-century Protoevangelium of James, not the Bible, and Pope Francis set the World Day for Grandparents near their 26 July memorial in 2021.

A blessing to say over a granddaughter comes from the Book of Numbers: “The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace” (Numbers 6:24–26). Prayers for a granddaughter at different ages Say her name where [name] appears. Some of these suit a baby, some a teenager, some a grown woman with children of her own. When she…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 48:15–16; Numbers 6:24–26; Deuteronomy 4:9; Ruth 4:16–17; Psalm 71:18; 91:11; 103:17; 128:6; 139:14; Proverbs 17:6; 31:30; Luke 2:52; 2 Timothy 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. 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
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The All-Night Vigil, the Litiya, p. 11; The Rite of Holy Matrimony, p. 297. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
  • Holweck, Frederick. “St. Anne.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01538a.htm
  • United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Grandparents & Elderly.” https://www.usccb.org/topics/marriage-and-family-life-ministries/grandparents-elderly
  • Francis. Message for the First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, 31 May 2021. https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/nonni/documents/20210531-messaggio-nonni-anziani.html

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