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Our Prayers Matter: Family Reflection Video

Our Prayers Matter: Family Reflection Video

Why pray?

We have been hearing a lot about Jesus healing people this season.

As Jesus travels around, he is healing not just the person he encounters, but the people around them; they begin to grow in believing Jesus came to heal the world. When Jesus says God sends out laborers, the fields of our life are being taken care of. That is, what we often pray for is being tended to.

There’s something each family and person can do: say a prayer. Any prayer you know, or make one up! As we pray, we are the laborers being sent to the vineyard, no matter what, that’s something we can all do with great expectations that God will hear and care for us.

Lord, we ask that you hear our prayers and bless our families this holy day!

How have prayers made a difference in your life?

About Father David Marcham

Father David S. Marcham is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and serves as Vice Postulator and Guild Director of the Cause for Canonization of Venerable Patrick Peyton. Before entering St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, he worked for eleven years as a physical therapist in Boston-area hospitals. Ordained in 2005, Father David was assigned to St. Mary Parish in Franklin, Massachusetts. His involvement in Father Peyton’s Cause began in 2007, when he assisted Father George Lucas, C.S.C., in advancing the Cause for Canonization. Appointed Vice Postulator in 2009, Father David oversees the progress of the Cause, directs the Guild, and promotes devotion to Father Peyton’s legacy of family prayer.