About this prayer
This original household prayer can be led by a family member. It asks God’s care for the home; for a formal house blessing, contact your parish.
Prayer text
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this home and for all who live here. Make it a place of safety, honesty, prayer and rest. Help us speak with kindness, share responsibilities fairly and resolve disagreements without harm. Bless the meals prepared here, the work undertaken and the welcome offered to guests. Protect children and vulnerable people within these walls, and guide us to seek help whenever it is needed. Remember those who have no secure home, and move us to generosity. May everyone who enters find respect and peace. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Extended community prayer
The original prayer above is unchanged. This separate community version includes additional intentions and responses. One person leads; everyone joins in the shared parts.
Let us gather in the presence of God, remembering those who pray with us and those who cannot be here. We bring our gratitude, our needs, and our willingness to care for one another.
God of love, unite our hearts in prayer and teach us to serve you together.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this home and for all who live here. Make it a place of safety, honesty, prayer and rest. Help us speak with kindness, share responsibilities fairly and resolve disagreements without harm. Bless the meals prepared here, the work undertaken and the welcome offered to guests. Protect children and vulnerable people within these walls, and guide us to seek help whenever it is needed. Remember those who have no secure home, and move us to generosity. May everyone who enters find respect and peace. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Community intentions
For everyone who lives in or visits this home, make it a place of safety, welcome, truthful conversation, and rest.
Lord, hear our prayer, and help us become instruments of your mercy.
For neighbours without secure housing, move us to practical compassion; let the comfort we enjoy deepen our concern for others.
Lord, hear our prayer, and help us become instruments of your mercy.
Pause for silent prayer. Intentions may be offered aloud freely; no one is required to share.
For the intentions spoken and those held quietly in our hearts, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, receive our prayer and sustain us in your love.
Let us entrust ourselves and those for whom we have prayed to the Father.
Merciful Father, receive our prayer through Jesus Christ. Where we can offer help, make us willing; where we must wait, give us patience. Keep us attentive to one another beyond this gathering. May the grace of this prayer take root in our homes, our work, and our choices, so that your love becomes visible through our lives. Amen.