Prayers for Your Children
The Guardian Angel prayer is most parents' first gift of faith to a child — and praying it for your children, at any age, is a venerable custom. Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the mother the Church turns to for mothers' intentions.
Traditional prayers
Guardian Angel Prayer (Angel of God)
my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
From Scripture
14Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
— Mark 10, vv. 14, Douay-Rheims · read the full chapter
6It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
— Proverbs 22, vv. 6, Douay-Rheims · read the full chapter
3Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
— Psalm 126 (127), vv. 3, Douay-Rheims · read the full chapter
Psalm numbers follow the Douay-Rheims (Vulgate) numbering; the common Hebrew numbering appears in parentheses.
Pray a novena
Patron saints for this intention
How to use these prayers
For adult children who've left the faith, St. Monica — seventeen years of prayer before Augustine's conversion — is the traditional patron and the argument for not stopping.