Prayer Services for the Elderly

These 30 services offer ministers to the sick, both professional and volunteer, a convenient and simple way to celebrate prayer and ritual experiences for residents in nursing homes and assisted care facilities and for elderly hospital patients. They can be used with two or three people or with thirty, depending on the situation in each facility.
Services include prayers, hymns and songs, sung responses, petitions, litanies, scripture readings, and a great variety of ritual responses, including blessings with water and oil, the blessing of throats, and praying the rosary.  Service titles include: Festival of Lights; Psalm Prayers for the weeks of Lent; Come, Spirit, Come; New Year’s Day; Feast of St. Blaise; Blessing of St. Joseph’s Table, and memorial Service. Clear directions and materials needed are included with every service.