1.- Prayer to Begin
Benign God of infinite charity that you have loved us so much and that you gave us in your Son the best garment of your love, so that, incarnated and made our brother in the bowels of the Virgin, he would be born in a manger for our health and remedy; We thank you for such an immense benefit. In return, we offer you, Lord, the sincere effort to make this world yours and ours, a more just world, more faithful to the great commandment to love each other as brothers. Grant us, Lord, your help to be able to do it. We ask that this Christmas, a festival of peace and joy, be an encouragement for our community, so that, living as brothers, we may seek more and more the paths of truth, justice, love and peace. Amen.
Our father
2.- Prayer for the Family
Lord, make our home a place of your love. Let there be no injury because you give us understanding. Let there be no bitterness because You bless us. Let there be no selfishness because You encourage us. Let there be no grudges because You give us forgiveness. Let there be no abandonment because you are with us. We know march towards you in your daily life. May every morning dawn another day of dedication and sacrifice. Every night finds us with more love. Make Lord with our lives, that you wanted to unite, a page full of you. Do Lord of our children what you long for, help us educate them, guide them on your path. We strive for mutual support. Let’s make love another motive to love you more. That when the great day of going to meet you dawns, grant us to find ourselves united forever in you. Amen.
3.- Prayer to the Virgin
Sovereign Mary, we ask you for all the families of our country; Make every home in our homeland and in the world a source of understanding, tenderness, and true family life. May these Christmas parties, which gather us around the manger where your Son was born, also unite us in love, make us forget the offenses and give us the simplicity to recognize the mistakes we have made.
Mother of God and Our Mother, intercede for us. Amen.
4.- Prayer to Saint Joseph
Most Holy Saint Joseph, husband of Mary and adoptive father of the Lord, you were chosen to act as a father in the home of Nazareth. Help parents; may they always be in their home the image of the heavenly father, following your example; that they fully fulfill the great responsibility of educating and training their children, giving them the best of themselves with a continuous effort. Help children understand and appreciate the selfless efforts of their parents. Saint Joseph, model of husbands and fathers, intercedes for us. Amen.
Our father
5.- Meditation of the Day
Eighth day to strengthen the FAITH.
A faith that is firm when a friendly relationship with the Lord is born.
A faith that is authentic is confirmed by good works, so that religion is not just about prayers, rites and traditions.
We need to cultivate faith with the Bible, prayer and religious practice because faith is our best support in crisis.
We need great faith in ourselves, in God and in others. A faith without wavering as Jesus wanted it: Mark 11. 23.
A faith that illuminates love with the strength of trust, since “love believes everything”. 1Cor 13, 7.
FAITH is the force of life and without it we drift. Publio Siro was right when he said: he who has lost faith has nothing more to lose.
How good that we take care of our faith as a treasure is taken care of!
How good that they can greet us as the Virgin!: “Blessed are you who have believed.” Lk 1, 45.
6.- Prayer to the Child God
Lord, Christmas is the memory of your birth among us, it is the presence of your love in our family and in our society. Christmas is certain that the God of heaven and earth is our Father, that you, Divine Child, are our Brother.
May this meeting next to your manger increase our faith in your goodness, commit us to truly live as brothers, give us courage to kill hatred and sow justice and peace. Oh Divine Child, teach us to understand that where there is love and justice, you are there and there is also Christmas. Amen.
Glory to the Father
7.- Joys
My sweet Jesus, my adored Child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Oh supreme wisdom of the sovereign God, that at the level of a child you have lowered yourself. Oh Divine Infant, come to teach us the prudence that makes true wise men.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Child of the manger, our God and Brother, You know and understand human pain; that when we suffer pain and anguish, we always remember that you have saved us.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Oh light from the east, sun of eternal rays, let us see your splendor in the darkness, Child so precious, joy of the Christian, shine the smile of your sweet lips.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– King of the nations, Emmanuel preclaro, longing for Israel, Shepherd of the flock. Child you feed with a soft staff, already the surly sheep and the meek lamb.
Sweet Jesus, my beloved child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Open the heavens and rain dew from above, benefactor, like holy watering. Come beautiful child, come human God; It looks beautiful star, flower of the field sprouts.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– You became a Child in a family full of tenderness and human warmth. Long live the homes gathered here, the great commitment of Christian love.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Of the weak help, of the suffering protection; comfort of the sad, light of banished. Life of my life, my adored dream; my constant friend, my divine brother.
My sweet Jesus, my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Come before my eyes of you in love, kiss your plants now, kiss your hands now. Prostrated on the ground I offer you my arms and even more than my phrases my tears tell you.
My sweet Jesus my adored child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– make our homeland a big family; Sow your love and your peace in our soil. Give us faith in life, give us hope and a sincere love that unites us more.
My sweet Jesus, my adored Child. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!
– Come our Savior for whom we sigh. Come to our souls! Come, don’t take so long!