SS. Mary and John s Catholic Primary School This prayer book is intended to be shared by you and your child. The prayers are ideally to be learned by heart. Some of the prayers are prayed daily and some are used more frequently at certain mes of the year. The children are encouraged to learn and pray these prayers when at home. We especially support and join with the children in saying prayers at the start and end of each day. Jesus said: Where two or three are gathered together in my name there I am in the midst of them. A Prayer Book for Parents and Children to share at home PRAYER OF DEDICATION Lord Jesus I give you my hands to do your work. I give you my feet to go your way. I give you my eyes to see as you do. I give you my tongue to speak your words. I give you my mind that you may think in me. I give you my spirit that you may pray in me. Above all I give you my heart that you may love in me, Your Father and all mankind. I give you my whole self that you may grow in me, So that it is you, Lord Jesus, Who live and work and pray in me.
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. THE OUR FATHER Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into tempta on, but deliver us from evil. THE HAIL MARY Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, GLORY BE TO THE FATHER Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. CONFITEOR I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. GLORIA Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Bego en Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father..
PRAYER BEFORE THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE God our Father, help me to remember the times when I didn t live as Jesus asked me to. Help me to be sorry and to try again. God Our Father, help me to remember the times when I didn t love Jesus. PRAYER BEFORE COMMUNION Lord Jesus, come to me. Lord Jesus, give me your love. Lord Jesus, come to me and give me yourself. Lord Jesus, you are my Lord and my God. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER AFTER THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE God our Father thank you for forgiving me. Help me to love others as Jesus asked me to. God Our Father, thank you for forgiving me. Help me to love Jesus. The Angelus V. The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, R. Be it done to me according to thy word. Hail Mary V. And the Word was made flesh, R. And dwelt among us. Hail Mary V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ Let us Pray: Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts that we, to whom the incarna on of Christ, your Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may be brought by his passion and cross to the glory of his resurrec on, through the same Christ our Lord. May the divine assistance remain always with us and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Lord Jesus, I love and adore you, You re a special friend to me. Welcome, Lord Jesus, O Welcome. Thank you for coming to me. Thank you Lord Jesus, O Thank you for giving yourself to me. Make me strong to show your love wherever I may be. I m ready now. Lord Jesus, to show how much I care. I m ready now to give your love at home and everywhere. Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask you to stay close by me forever and love me I pray. Bless all the children in your loving care and bring us to heaven to live with you there.. Hail Holy Queen Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, Your eyes of mercy towards us; And a er this our exile, Show to us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
The Rosary The Joyful Mysteries 1. The Annuncia on 2. The Visita on 3, The Birth of the Lord 4. The Presenta on 5. The Finding of the Child in the Temple The Mysteries of Light 1. The Bap sm in the Jordan 2. The Manifesta on of Jesus at Cana 3. The Proclama on of the Kingdom 4. The Transfigura on 5. The Ins tu on of the Eucharist The Sorrowful Mysteries 1. The Agony in the Garden 2. The Scourging at the Pillar 3. The Crowning with Thorns 4. The Carrying of the Cross 5. The Crucifixion The Glorious Mysteries 1. The Resurrec on 2. The Ascension 3. The Coming of the Holy Spirit 4. The Assump on of Mary 5. The Crowning of Our Lady as Queen of Heaven Creed I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Bego en Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, bego en, not made, consubstan al with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salva on he came down from heaven, [bow during the next two lines:] and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pon us Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one bap sm for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrec on of the dead and the life of the world to come..
ACT OF FAITH O my God, I believe in you and in all that your Holy Church teaches because you have said it and your word is true. You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. You are my Lord and my God. Lord, I believe, increase my faith. ACT OF CHARITY O my God, I love you with all my heart, With all my soul, and with all my strength. Lord increase our love. Help us to love one another. MEMORARE ACT OF HOPE O my God, I put my hope in you because I am sure of your promises. Deliver us Lord, from every evil and grant us peace in our day, As we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ. ACT OF SORROW O my God, because you are so good I am very sorry that I have sinned against you and by the help of your grace I will not sin again. Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary, that it is a thing unheard of, that anyone ever had recourse to your protec on, implored your help, or sought your intercession, and was le forsaken. Filled therefore with confidence in your goodness I fly to you, O Mother, virgin of virgins. To you I come, before you I stand, a sorrowful sinner. Despise not my poor words, O Mother of the Word of God, but graciously hear and grant my prayer. PRAYERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful And enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And you will renew the face of the earth. O God who taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in his consola on, through Christ our Lord. Holy Spirit, I want to do what is right, Help me. Holy Spirit, I want to live like Jesus, Guide me. Holy Spirit, I want to pray like Jesus, Teach me. ST. PATRICK S BREASTPLATE Christ be with me, Christ be beside me, Christ be before me, Christ be behind me, Christ be at my right hand, Christ be at my le hand, Christ be with me everywhere I go. Christ be my friend, for ever and ever.
PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in forgiving that we are forgiven and it is in dying that we are FOR THE DEAD ETERNAL REST Eternal rest, grant to them, O Lord And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Walk With Me (A Diocesan Prayer) Lord God, our light and our salva on, We praise you for your gi s of life and faith. We thank you for the desire that you have planted in our hearts, our yearning to see your face. Help us to meet you in prayer, to walk in your ways, and to speak to others of our joy and consola on in your presence. Give us faithfulness in this present life so that we may come to know and praise your beauty, with all our brothers and sisters, in the life to come. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.