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Summary
- Short prayers ask for a sister’s safety every day, while she lives far away and when someone close to her is hurting her.
- Psalm 121, quoted in full, is a psalm of protection that can be prayed line by line for a sister.
- Moses prayed for his sister Miriam’s healing in one line: “Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee” (Numbers 12:13); the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers has a prayer asking “health both of body and soul” for friends.
- Other prayers cover hard times, big decisions, her faith, a falling-out between sisters and thanksgiving for a sister.
- Scripture’s sisters include Miriam, who watched over the infant Moses, and Martha and Mary of Bethany; Paul called Phebe “our sister” in the church.
- For a sister facing abuse: US National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233; Spain 016; England 0808 2000 247.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Exodus 2:4, 7–8; Numbers 12:13, 15; 26:59; Psalm 4:8; 91:1; 121:1–8; 133:1; Isaiah 41:10; Matthew 12:50; Luke 10:40; John 11:3, 5; Acts 23:16; Romans 16:1; Philippians 1:3). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, “For our Friends,” p. 170. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- National Domestic Violence Hotline. https://www.thehotline.org/
- Ministerio de Igualdad (Spain). “Servicio 016.” https://violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es/informacionUtil/recursos/telefono016/
- GOV.UK. “Domestic abuse: how to get help.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
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