Congratulations on the birth of your baby

May your happiness grow as you receive this new life into your care - a new life created and given by God.

'In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father'.

0 God Thank you for my baby for the wonder of life and birth for the excitement

Thank you for the skill and patience of doctors and nurses

for the love and kindness

of all who have helped me.

Lord Jesus - help me

to be patient during this time Helpful to those who are

looking after me

Sensitive to the worries of

those around me.                       Amen


From a Hymn written by King David (Psalm 139:13-16)

You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because you are to be feared;

All you do is strange and

wonderful.

I know it with all my heart.

When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb,

When I was growing there in secret,

You knew that I was there - You saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me

had all been recorded in your book,

Before any of them began.'


Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self.  

We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.  

The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy.  

This is the great secret of the inner life.  We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

 

Horace Mann