Prayer for children
لم تُترجَم هذه الصلاة بعدُ إلى لغتك؛ وهي معروضةٌ هنا بالإنكليزيّة. والروح يسمعها على كلّ حال.
Father, these children are yours before they are mine. Guard their bodies from harm, their minds from what would poison them, their hearts from bitterness, and their souls from ever believing they are unloved. Give their guardian angels a free hand. Where I have failed them, repair it; where I have wounded them, heal it; and what I cannot give them, give them yourself. And if they wander far, be the road they walk on. Amen.
متى تُتلى هذه الصلاة
Over a sleeping child, at the school gate, and for grown children who have stopped calling. St Monica prayed for her son for seventeen years; his name was Augustine.