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Prayers for My Mother: Blessing, Health and Protection

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Summary

  • The Bible’s command about mothers is the fifth commandment, “Honour thy father and thy mother” (Exodus 20:12), and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer explains it as a duty “To love, honour, and help my father and mother.”
  • The priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 can be said over a mother or prayed for her.
  • Short prayers cover a living mother’s strength, health, sleep, safety, decisions, joy, faith, friendships, money worries and old age.
  • For a mother who is seriously ill there is the 1928 Prayer Book’s prayer “For a Sick Person,” and Catholics and Orthodox can ask a priest for the Anointing of the Sick or Holy Unction.
  • Catholics and Orthodox pray for the dead, and the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers has prayers for a deceased woman and for deceased parents. Most Protestants do not pray for the dead, and the Westminster Confession limits prayer to the living.
  • Moms in Prayer International, which Fern Nichols founded in 1984, is a movement of mothers who meet to pray for their children and schools.

A short prayer for your mother: “Lord, thank you for my mother. Keep her safe and well, give her strength for today and rest tonight, and let her know that she is loved, by her family and by you. Amen.” God gave his command about mothers in the Ten Commandments: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee” (Exodus 20:12). Paul calls it “the first commandment…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Exodus 20:12; Numbers 6:23–26; Psalm 91:11; Proverbs 1:8; 17:22; 23:22; 27:17; 31:28; Isaiah 40:31; 46:4; 66:13; Jeremiah 30:17; John 11:25–26; 19:26–27; Ephesians 2:10; 6:2; Philippians 4:7, 19; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 2 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 11:1; James 1:5; 5:14; 1 John 4:19). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • 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; Offices of Instruction, p. 288; The Burial of the Dead, p. 336. 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 a Woman deceased” and “For deceased Parents,” p. 593. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888/page/593/mode/1up
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 1514–1516. https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_two/section_two/chapter_two/article_5/ii_who_receives_and_who_administers_this_sacrament.html
  • Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2005. Question 211; Appendix, “Eternal Rest.” https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html
  • Orthodox Church in America. Guidelines for Clergy (2023), “The Mystery of Unction” and “Burial.” https://www.oca.org/files/PDF/official/2023-OCA-Guidelines-for-Clergy.pdf
  • Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), chapter 21, section 4. https://thewestminsterstandard.org/the-westminster-confession/
  • Moms in Prayer International. “Fern Nichols Bio.” https://momsinprayer.org/who-we-are/leadership/headquarters-staff/fern-nichols-bio/

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