Your turn to pray

Short prayers for when you are asked to pray aloud.

A prayer for school or sports

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak … as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4. The picture: El Greco, Pentecost, about 1600, Museo del Prado.

About 40 seconds aloud

We give Thee thanks, merciful God, for the instruction and direction which we have received. Grant us Thy grace that we may lay the lesson to heart and carry it into action, to Thy glory and our eternal welfare. Furthermore we pray Thee to pour forth Thy blessing upon our parents and superiors, our teachers and benefactors, and to recompense them abundantly for all the good which they have been the means of bringing to us. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lasance, The Catholic Girl’s Guide (1906), “Prayer after Instruction,” pp. 438–439

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This is our only closing prayer for school or sports at this length. Try 15 seconds.

エル・グレコ作『聖霊降臨』、壁の金色の額縁の中:鳩の下に集う使徒たちとマリア、それぞれの頭上に灯る炎
「すると、一同は聖霊に満たされ、霊が語らせるままに、ほかの国々の言葉で話しだした。」使徒言行録2章4節 · エル・グレコ作、 の日に, 、1600年頃、プラド美術館

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