Aleteia's Caroline Fischer shares a beautiful, simple prayer you can pray over your little ones when they fall ill.
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00:00Flu and cold season are finally upon us.
00:06We had our first round of colds run through our house last week.
00:09And if you're a parent, you know how hard it is to see your children sick.
00:13I feel like anytime my son is sick, I'm always telling my husband how I just wish I could
00:17be sick instead of him.
00:18Well, I found a prayer that pretty much channels all that energy.
00:22So this little book is called The Original Mother's Manual, and it is a little gold mine.
00:28It has prayers for literally anything you as a mother could think of, regardless of
00:33if you're a new mother, an old mother, like it covers everything.
00:37Just look at some of these options for prayers.
00:41Here's the one I want for a sick child.
00:44Dearest mother, how helpless I feel in the presence of my ailing child.
00:49No labor of my hands or sacrifice of my energy can restore it quickly to help.
00:54And yet my heart yearns to do something for my child.
00:57So to you, I turn, dear mother, consoler of the afflicted and health of the sick.
01:03Show your loving protection once more, and as my child was blessed in my womb and at
01:07its birth, so intercede for it now that God may restore its health of body.
01:13I renew the consecration of my child to you forever, most cherished mother.
01:18In sickness and in health, may it be always yours.
01:27Amen.
01:28Amen.
01:29Amen.