Created with Hope

Prayer by a 4th grade boy whose father is in jail and whose mother is dead:

Lord God, you created us with hope. We thank you for all the good things you give to us. Please forgive your children who went against you and help those who don't have any strength or can't see their families any more because of sickness and can't walk, see or hear. God, you have opened up the light and gates to heaven. We thank your son Jesus for dying on the cross for us. You give us sun, earth, land, trees, animals, grass, people. And at the end to our earth there would be hope.

Prayer to the Spirit

Group Prayer from Level II:  

Come Holy Spirit,

Fill us with your love and goodness.

Free us from our sins and help us on our path to heaven. 

We pray that your power will take the evil away from the planet you made us.

Thank you Holy Spirit, thank you.

Amen

God breaks himself

Steven, age 5: "God breaks himself in two - just so we can share him. And his spirit stays up in heaven until we ask for it. Then he breaks it into a million pieces so everyone can have some, and he wants us to share what we got so love can spread over the whole world."

So Glad to See You

Prayer by Thomas, 7, (whose grandmother had recently died) after the presentation of the Origin of the Eucharist:

God, I will never leave you out of my heart.

And I will do the same thing for you, Jesus.

When I die I will see you for the first time and when I see you I will be so glad that I will hug you as if you were my mother.

Heaven has everything....

Peter, age 4 1/2 reflected on the parable of the Pearl of Great Price, "He (the Merchant) sold everything even his table to buy the pearl, but the pearl is heaven and heaven has everything...."