Prayer for Healing the Family Tree
By Fr. John Hampsch
Heavenly Father, I come before You as Your child, in great
need of Your help; I have physical health needs, emotional needs, spiritual
needs, and interpersonal needs. Many of
my problems have been caused by my own failures, neglect, and sinfulness, for
which I humbly beg Your forgiveness, Lord.
But I also ask You to forgive the sins of my ancestors whose failures
have left their effects on me in the form of unwanted tendencies, behaviour
patterns, and defects in body, mind, and spirit. Heal me, Lord, of all these disorders.
With Your help I sincerely forgive everyone, especially
living or dead members of my family tree, who have directly offended me or my
loved ones in any way, or those whose sins have resulted in our present
sufferings and disorders. In the name of
Your Divine Son, Jesus, and in the power of His Holy Spirit, I ask You, Father,
to deliver me and my entire family tree from the influence of the evil
one. Free all living and dead members of
my family tree, including those in adoptive relationships and those in extended
family relationships, from every contaminating form of bondage. By Your loving concern for us, Heavenly
Father, and by the shed blood of Your Precious Son, Jesus, I beg You to extend
Your blessing to me and to all my living and deceased relatives. Heal every negative effect transmitted
through all past generations, and prevent such negative effects in future
generations of my family tree.
I symbolically place the cross of Jesus over the head of
each person in my family tree and between each generation; I ask You to let the
cleansing blood of Jesus purify the bloodlines in my family lineage. Set Your protective angels to encamp around
us, and permit Archangel Raphael, the patron of healing, to administer Your
divine healing power to all of us, even in areas of genetic disability. Give special power to our family members’
guardian angels to heal, protect, guide, and encourage each of us in all our
needs. Let Your healing power be
released at this very moment, and let it continue as long as Your sovereignty
permits.
In our family tree, Lord, replace all bondage with a holy
bonding in family love. And let there be
an ever-deeper bonding with You, Lord, by the Holy Spirit, to Your Son,
Jesus. Let the family of the Holy
Trinity pervade our family with its tender, warm, loving presence, so that our family
may recognize and manifest that love in all our relationships. All of our unknown needs we include with this
petition that we pray in Jesus’ precious name.
Amen.
St. Joseph, patron of family life, pray for us.
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Thank you for sharing this beautiful prayer 🙏♥️🙏
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