Praying Together With Children - 2025

RESPONSE COLLECT DISMISSAL SCRIPTURE TUESDAY 10 JUNE 2025 Week 10 Ordinary Time Let us pray to God our Father as adopted children. (pause) Loving Father, make us worthy members of your family so that we will share the inheritance you have promised in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A reading from the first letter of St John (2:29 - 3:1) Beloved: You know that everyone who does right is a child of God. Think how much the Father loves us. He loves us so much that he lets us be called his children, as we truly are. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Gathered as members of God’s family, let us pray together. For trust in turning to God our Father in prayer: (pause) We pray as one. Gracious God, hear our prayer. For children who live in orphanages: (pause) We pray as one. Gracious God, hear our prayer. For children and families living in war zones: (pause) We pray as one. Gracious God, hear our prayer. For all members of our own families: (pause) We pray as one. Gracious God, hear our prayer. For the prayers in our hearts today: (pause while students pray silently) We pray as one. Gracious God, hear our prayer. May God look upon us with kindness and give us peace. Amen. May God bless us in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 95

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