The following prayer for an engaged couple is an excerpt from The Notre Dame Book of Prayer:
May our love increasingly be a sign of Christ’s love for the Church.
Let our daily nurturing of our relationship use the Mass a a model.
Let us each day humbly acknowledge our faults and ask for forgiveness for any hurts we have caused the other.
May we take any opportunity for praising and affirming the talents and efforts of the other.
May we offer our time, understanding, and active, empathetic listening
even when we judge that we have heard before what we are hearing now.
May we pray with and for each other in whatever ways we can
May we try to build a solid foundation
of openness and trust based upon similar values.
May we celebrate our coming vows
and put the stress on our relationship building,
not on the wedding day details that will soon pail in importance.
May we treat each other with a sacred trust that seeks to build up.
Help us believe that God sends us forth as a couple
to become an ever clearer channel of his love.
Don’t let us neglect to give each other a kiss of peace often!
May we go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Kathy and Keven Misiewicz
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame