Send your blessing on us, as we work in this kitchen, and make us ever thankful for our daily bread. Leader: O God, you fill the hungry with good things. Leader: O God, give your blessings to all who share this room, that we may be knit together in companionship. Leader: O God, protect our going out and our coming in Let us share the hospitality of this home with all who visit us, that those who enter here may know your love and peace. Some of the following prayers may be used. The word of the Lord.Īfter the scripture reading, all go from room to room, offering prayers of intercession and sprinkling holy water, if desired. With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God And never say or do anything except in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Teach each other, and advise each other, in all wisdom. Let the message of Christ, in all its richness, find a home with you. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together as parts of one body. Over all these clothes, to keep them together and complete them, put on love. The Lord has forgiven you now you must do the same. Bear with one another forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. You are God’s chosen race, his saints He loves you, and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience.

Reader: + A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians Inspired by his teachings and example, let us seek to make our home before all else a dwelling place of love, diffusing far and wide the goodness of Christ. May he always be here among us may he nurture our love for each other, share in our joys, comfort us in our sorrows. Let us now pray that he will enter this home and bless it with his presence.

Leader: When Christ took flesh through the Blessed Virgin Mary, he made his home with us. Leader: “Peace be to this house and: to all who dwell here, in the name of the Lord. Leader: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Gather together as a family or group (roomates, friends, relatives) in any room you desire, preferably with a crucifix, and you can bless your own home, apartment, dorm or flat even with the absence of a priest. Have you just transferred to a new house, apartment, dorm or flat? If so, as a Catholic, you might want to have it blessed.

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