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When is the Parents’ Prayer the Most Important?

Bear in mind that parents’ prayer is very powerful before God because fervent love leads to fervent prayer, and fervent prayers are always listened. What need parents to pray for?
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Pray together for a tight knit family!

When your children will say “Holy God” they will hear the chants of the angels, who were once seen by a child in Constantinople in the time of the patriarch Proclus. When they will read “It is truly…
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Mothers, teach your children pray!

As “mother” and “father” are the first words in children’s vocabulary, in a similar way his first conversations with God should start with “Theotokos” and “our Father”.
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Children, always bear God in your thoughts!

Even from infancy, children will get accustomed to pray before and after a meal, before and after finishing lessons, leaving or getting into the house, or before anything else that they do.
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Parents, rejoice your children!

May that the serene and pure joy of a happy infancy be with our children, even from their cradle. May that love incessantly comfort and tender warm their hearts.
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Love, cornerstone of family

Kids know everything, and they feel the absence of divine grace in their family. It remains only form without content, the salt that has lost its taste. Let us therefore strive to keep the love and…
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When a child learns how to pray, he learns what joy is

From the rhythm of our breathing we can guess the healthiness of our body. How big is the parents’ fear when their child is hardly breathing and in danger of suffocating. But we should fear more the…
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