Grande Prairie Catholic School District #28
Book of Student Prayers
A collection of works prepared by students in our school district Feb.-April, 2009.
Themes.
1. Thanksgiving p.1-39
2. Families and Communities p.40-56
3. Advent and Lent p.57-67
4. Opening and Closing School Year and New Year p.68-72
5. Staff/Students/Parents p.73-78
6. Service p.79-84
7. Easter/Christmas p.85-93
8. Joy/Fun p.94-106
9. Faith/Hope/Love and Forgiveness p.107-144
10.Topics of your Choice p.145-169
Giving Thanks
Dear Lord
I thank you for giving life to me.
I will love you forever and ever.
I thank you for peace and joy.
I thank you for my family and friends.
Thank you for peace on earth.
Amen
Drake Hodges – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear gentle and loving Jesus, I feel loved by you because you are always by me.
I need help to turn from sin.
Thank you God, for hearing my prayer.
I hope you have a peaceful day in heaven.
I will always love you.
Amen
Tahlia Boisvert – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear God, I will always love you.
Please help me to stop yelling when I get mad,
God, I will always love you no matter what happens.
I love you Jesus.
God you are my only God.
I know you will always be with me.
Amen
Cody Davidson – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear Lord,
I thank you for giving us life God.
We will always love you forever.
Dear God, I hope you can give joy to everyone on earth.
Amen
Morayo Lambert – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear Jesus,
Thank you for sacrificing yourself on the cross.
I love you God for making the earth and giving me life.
Thank you for giving me all the things I need and my friends.
Help everyone know about you so that everyone can go to heaven.
Amen
James Hinz – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear Lord,
Thank you for my peaceful life.
Loving Father, you are the only one that is the Lord and
we should love you more than anything in the whole world.
Dear Jesus, you are the one that saved us from death.
Gentle loving Jesus, you are the love of the world.
Faithful Father, I am thankful for you.
Amen
Lucille Hamelin-Young - Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear God,
Thank you for the Lord Jesus.
I love you Jesus I love you God.
I show you that I love you by taking care of the earth
and by helping other when they need help.
I live you for who you are.
Thank you for life.
Help me be a better person.
Amen
Jonathon Carroll – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Loving Lord Jesus
You give me life because you love me!
Help me Jesus to be gentle, peaceful and joyful forever!
Thank you Lord God for hearing my prayer!
I love you Jesus,
Amen
Colby Stang – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear God
I love you forever. I will pray with all my heart God.
I like you for who you are God,
I love you because you are my friend.
God, I like you because your heart is full of joy.
God, I love you for making the earth.
Amen
Calie Wentzell – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
A Prayer For Pets
Dear Jesus,
I hope the animals get lots of food.
I pray that they get lots of water.
I pray that all the animals can live and have a good day.
Amen
Damien LaValley – Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Sharks
Dear Jesus,
Please help other people to stop slaughtering sharks.
The sea would be a poor place without them,
In the name of our Father,
Amen
Zachary Wall – Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
Dear God,
Thank you for the grace you teach us.
To live self-controlled, upright and Godly lives.
I love you as you love me.
Let your gentleness be entered into everyone’s heart.
I love you God and I will love you forever.
Amen
Lareesa Frizorguer – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear God
I love you forever and I hope you answer my prayers
because I pray for stuff that I really want.
I love you because you’re powerful.
Lord, you are a miracle because you heal people and it’s good.
Lord, I’m happy that you have wisdom because if not people won’t know about it.
Thank you for loving me.
Amen
Graham Providence –Toho – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Dear Lord
I thank you for giving life to me.
I will love you forever and ever.
I thank you for peace and joy.
I thank you for my family and friends.
Thank you for peace on earth.
Amen
Drake Hodges – Gr. 2
St. Patrick Catholic School
Thanksgiving Prayer
O God, we thank you for everything you have gave us,
We thank you for our homes, our friends and families and for our lives.
May we always be thankful for the things you provide us with.
Amen
Christina Smith - Gr. 9
Ste. Marie Catholic School
A Prayer For Thanksgiving
Father all mighty, your gift of love is countless and your goodness is unlimited.
On Thanksgiving Day we come before you humble and grateful for your kindness.
Open our hearts so that we may share the same love you share with us with our fellow
and open our ears so we may hear the words you preach to us.
Amen
Chantel Kilfoy - Gr. 9
Ste. Marie Catholic School
We Give Thanks
Our Father in heaven, we give thanks for the pleasure,
of gathering together for this occasion.
We give thanks for this food prepared by loving hands.
We give thanks for our lives, the freedom
to enjoy it all and all our other blessings.
As we do our contribution to make this lovely dinner,
we pray for the health and strength
to care and live our lives on and
love for others just as you love for us.
This we ask in the name of Christ our Lord.
Amen
Ashley Whitfield - Gr. 9
Ste. Marie Catholic School
A Prayer For The Earth
Dear Lord,
Thank you for making me so I could worship you.
Thank you for the earth so I can live on it.
Amen
Laine Unger - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
Thanksgiving
At this time we thank everyone important in our lives
but we are mostly thankful to you, Lord.
For you are whom we can turn to when we have no one else there.
Amen
Chantel Kilfoy - Gr. 9
Ste. Marie Catholic School
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Praise be the Lord!
Thank you Lord for so many things.
Thank you Lord for giving me life.
Thank you Lord for my family.
Thank you Lord, for my house.
Thank you Lord, for my food.
Thank you Lord, for my education.
Thank you Lord, for no wars in my country.
Thank you Lord, for clean water to drink.
And most important gift that you have given me is my health.
Amen
Rian Griffin - Gr. 9
Ste. Marie Catholic School
Prière de Remerciement
Cher Jésus,
Je veux seulement Te dire merci,
Pour toutes les fois que Tu m’as aidé,
Quand je suis seule et triste,
Tu me réveilles perpétuellement,
Merci pour les cadeaux,
Que Tu me donnes chaque jour,
Merci pour aider tout le monde,
Et de nous faire sentir important.
J’aime être dans ta gloire,
Je vais constamment t’adorer
Jésus est mon héros,
Qui est toujours dons mon cœur.
Katherine Pernal - Gr. 8
École St. Gerard Catholic School
A Prayer For Canada
Thank you for everyone in Canada.
Thank you for the way you have made everyone.
Thank you for the towns in Canada.
Thank you for what they look like.
Thank you for our flag.
Thank you for everything in Canada.
Amen
Jonathan VanderBeek - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Animals
Thank you for the animals that we get too have on earth.
We can take care of them.
Amen
Alayna Schmidt - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Animals
Thank you for me, thank you for the snow leopard,
tigers, sheep, lions, horses, eagles, hawks,
snowy owls, trout, salmon, guppies,
goldfish, house cats and turtles.
Quinn Webber - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
Merci Dieu
Merci mon Dieu pour le gazon qui pousse,
Pour le soleil qui brille et pour les plantes si vertes et si belles
Merci mon Dieu pour les animaux doux, pour ma famille gentille, et pour mes amies justes
Merci mon Dieu pour la maison stable, pour les lits confortables, et pour la nourriture santé.
Merci mon Dieu pour tout!
Janai Martens – Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
Thanksgiving
Thank you for my family and my friends.
Thank you for our Flag.
Thank you for my home.
Thank you for my mama and papa.
Amen
Tyler Anderson - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
The Earth
Thank you for this earth we live on.
The land is nice and clean.
We don’t rob and we don’t litter.
Amen
Myguel Bonner - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
Prayer For People And Pets
Thank you for pets and thank you for us.
Thank you for me and thank you for you.
Amen
Callum Thompson - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Clubs
Thank you for clubs.
Thank you for the people who run them.
Help us learn more from the activities we do.
Help us make new friends when we play games.
Amen
Brynna Nelson - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
Prière du monde
Notre Père merci pour l’amour et la joie que tu me donnes tous les jours
Tu me rends heureuse tous les jours
Merci Dieu pour la vie de mes amis, ma famille, moi-même et pour le monde
Je veux toujours penser à toi
Mon Père donne-moi la force d’utiliser justement toute ma vie et aide-moi à vaincre le mal de ce monde
Mon Père, merci pour tous les jours, je veux être un peu comme toi
Mon Père aide-moi à être un ange
Amen
Jessica Desprey - Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
A Prayer For The Lord
Dear Lord,
You are the best.
You’re the all mighty God.
You have promised that you will not flood the land ever again!
Thank you for the land!
Amen
Kiera Rose Kruger - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Mom And Dad
Thank you for mom and dad because they are kind.
They clean, they wash our clothes and they give me medicine.
Amen
Jeffery Moon - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For Pets
Dear God,
Thank you for the pets that we take care of.
Thank you for the cats and dogs.
We will feed our pets every day.
We will play with them and pet them.
Amen
Tyson Penner - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For The Lord
Oh Lord,
Thank you for the earth.
Thank you for my parents, friends and families.
Oh Lord, thank you for everything.
Amen
Tara Galway - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
A Prayer For My Pets
Thank you for the pets, the flowers and the trees.
Thank you for the food and the people.
Amen
Jaedyn Johnson - Gr. 2
St. Mary’s Catholic School
La prière de la nourriture
Merci Seigneur pour la nourriture
Je prie pour que tout le monde puisse avoir
de la nourriture et pour ceux qui n’en n’ont pas.
Je te demande de les protéger.
Amen
Levi Maisonneuve - Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
Merci pour tout
Seigneur, merci pour notre vie,
Tu as fait de gros efforts pour nous
Merci pour tout
Merci pour le monde que tu as créé
Merci pour les animaux
Merci pour les fleurs et les buissons
Merci pour notre famille
Et merci pour la nature
Amen
Shanelle Leger - Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
Le monde
Merci mon Dieu pour toutes les jolies choses dans le monde
Ce monde et un don
Le monde est ce qui est le plus important dans la vie.
Pardonne à toutes
les personnes dans ce monde.
Amen
Luis Ventura - Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
Merci Dieu
Merci Dieu pour croire en nous quand on fait du mal
Merci d’arrêter les chicanes dans notre famille
Merci de nous faire des amis quand on ne peut pas en trouver.
Merci de nous aider pendant que de mauvaises choses se passent.
Merci de nous donner de la nourriture
Merci pour nous donner de l’espoir
Merci de nous donner les prières.
Amen
Randy Tollenaar- Gr. 5
École St. Gerard Catholic School
Une prٍière pour remercier Dieu
Merci Dieu pour ma famille et mes amis
Merci pour la nourriture
Merci pour m’aider avec l’école
Merci pour la vie
Merci pour m’aider quand j’ai besoin d’aide
Merci pour la nature
Merci pour m’encourager
Merci pour l’école
Merci pour m’aider à apprendre
Merci pour toutes les choses que tu as fait pour moi.