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Summary
- Short prayers ask for children’s safety, schooling, friends, health, character, faith and future, with prayers for grown children and for a parent’s patience.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For Children” and “For the Children”), the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (“A Parent’s Prayer”) and the Orthodox service for children beginning school.
- Simple prayers for children to say themselves cover morning, bedtime, fear, patience, tests, a friend in need and saying sorry, with the Catholic “Angel of God” prayer.
- Job prayed for each of his children by name (Job 1:5), and Hannah said of Samuel, “For this child I prayed” (1 Samuel 1:27).
- A child in danger needs help as well as prayer: 988 in the US, 3114 in France, Samaritans on 116 123 in the UK and Ireland.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (1 Samuel 1:27; Job 1:5; Psalm 56:3; 121:8; Proverbs 13:20; Isaiah 54:13; Lamentations 2:19; Mark 10:16; Luke 18:16; Ephesians 4:32; 3 John 1:4). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Children,” p. 43; Family Prayer, “For the Children,” p. 596. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. “Angel of God,” p. 54; “A Parent’s Prayer,” p. 453. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. “A Service of Prayer when Children Begin their Instruction,” pp. 519–522. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Ministère de la Santé (France). “3114, numéro national de prévention du suicide.” https://3114.fr/
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact Samaritans.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
- Фонд поддержки детей, находящихся в трудной жизненной ситуации. Детский телефон доверия 8 800 2000 122. https://fond-detyam.ru/
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