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.