Family Prayer: Family Scripture Study

Thank you for taking the Family Prayer Quiz from Catholic Sprouts. It is ESSENTIAL that your family prays – and prays together! But prayer doesn’t just happen. Praying together as a family takes planning, commitment, and a whole lot of grace from God. So, great job on taking this important step!

According to the quiz, your family is ready to dive into a Scripture study! God invites you and your family to interact with His living and powerful Word. Do this as a family, and together listen to God’s Word and learn to hear Him speak in your life.

WHAT IS A FAMILY SCRIPTURE STUDY?

We hear Scripture read each Sunday at Mass, but we are invited to spend more time interacting with God’s Holy Word. Reading Scripture independently is a beautiful practice, but I encourage you to also get into the practice of studying Sacred Scripture as a family. 

For years, we have done this in the simplest possible way. Each night, Bill, my husband, reads the daily Gospel reading as part of our family prayer time. After he reads it, he picks out a verse for us to repeat a few times. The goal is to memorize this verse as a family. Then, we briefly discuss that verse and the passage as a whole. Although some nights the kids are uncooperative, some nights we have beautiful conversations and walk away with a powerful verse memorized and planted deep in our hearts. 

We have also done several other types of Scripture studies over the years. Each Advent, we pray through the Jesse Tree, a Scripture study of the Old Testament, and Each Lent, we pray through the Jesus Tree, a Scripture study of one of the Gospels. 

HOW WOULD MY FAMILY USE A SCRIPTURE STUDY?

Committing to a multi-week study as a family takes some planning and lots of follow-through. Also, we have NEVER completed a six-week study in six weeks. It almost always takes us double or triple the required time, and we are fine with that! We finish when we finish and always walk away better for it. 

We also have done family Scripture studies in a variety of ways. During Lent and Advent, we add the Scripture study to our family evening prayer. However, we wanted to create more space for discussion when we went through Encountering the Heart of Jesus. Because of this, we completed this study over family dinners. Now, dinner in our house is just as crazy as it is in yours. Toddlers that don’t want to sit down, sports practices that cut it short, five-year-olds that don’t want to eat their veggies. I get the struggles, and there were some nights we just could not get through the study, which is why it took us so long to get through it. But, we stuck to it and finished and were renewed because of it! 

HOW OTHER FAMILIES HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY CATHOLIC SPROUTS SCRIPTURE STUDIES

Over a thousand families have used Encountering the Heart of Jesus. Here’s what a few of them had to say:

OUR GIFT TO YOU

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Once again, thank you for investing in family prayer. God called us to be parents, to raise saints, and to transform our homes into little Domestic Churches. May He bless us in this work and bring us into His glory one day.

In Christ Jesus,

Nancy