A blessing for children in foster care worldwide

Children in foster care often come from very dysfunctional families,  and the foster parents may not always be up to the high standard of parenting which should be expected for such a role. So the children concerned show much higher rates of school failure,...

A blessing for children condemned to spend their whole life in jail

A blessing for one of the most terrible situations I can think of:  children condemned to life imprisonment. The USA is the only country in the world to do this, and almost 3000 of them are condemned to this fate (figure for 2015), some as young as 13. Until 2005,...

A blessing for victims of bullying

Bullying is an extremely common form of violence. It starts at a very young age and it occurs in daycare centers, on and off school grounds and college campuses, at social and sporting events. This is a worldwide problem, but in the US alone, 2.1 million school...

Blessing concerning child labor in the world

“The one thing all children have in common is their rights. Every child has the right to survive and thrive, to be educated, to be free from violence and abuse, to participate and to be heard.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon According to the ILO...

Blessing for a sick child

I bless (name of the child) in her/his divine completeness hidden behind the veil of appearances. I bless her/him in her/his innate perfection which, as the child of God, only awaits to be revealed. I bless her/him in the perfect work of all her/his organs which...

A Blessing for Street Children and Children Forced into Prostitution

One of the major scandals of today is that in a world that has the ample possibility of providing the basic needs for all, tens of millions of children, sometimes as young as four years old, roam the streets, sleeping under bridges, in garbage dumps, and in cellars,...