YEARS SEVEN TO TEN
prayer library

core prayers from the religious education prayer appendix

In addition to the core prayers indicated in previous year levels.

Year Seven

• Formal Prayers including Amen, Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary
• Meditative prayer including Ignatian Meditation and Lectio Divina, 
• Meditative prayer practices including Silence and Stillness and praying with icons and images

Year Eight

• The Liturgy of the hours 
• Meditative prayer, including Augustinian Prayer and Franciscan Contemplative Prayer
• Meditative prayer practices, including centred breathing and attending to posture

Year Nine

• Prayers and writings of Christian spiritual fathers and mothers (Catherine McAuley, Nano Nagle, Edmund Rice, Don Bosco, Mary MacKillop)
• Prayers for forgiveness and healing, including Penitential Act
• Meditative prayer, including Christian Meditation
• Contemplative Prayer
• Meditative prayer practices, including praying with labyrinths

Year Ten

• Prayers for justice, peace and the environment, including The Prayer of St Francis, The Magnificat and the Canticle of Creation (prayer walk, lectio of nature, ecological conversion prayer)
• Contemplative Prayer
• Centering Prayer
• Meditative prayer, including Lectio of Nature
• Meditative prayer practices, including praying with the help of nature

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BCE Religious life of the school Prayer Library

• Celebration of Liturgy and the Sacraments
  
• Ritualising Everyday Life
  
• Christian Prayer
  
• Meditative Prayer with Students
  

Additional prayers 
for this learning phase

• Common Catholic Prayers
• Creative Prayer Ideas
• Creative Prayer Ideas 2
• Eco-Prayers
• Enrolment Blessing
• Examination of Conscience
• Mantras
• One Hundred Prayer Ideas for kids
• Prayer Starters
• Prayers of the Faithful
• Stewardship
• The Text This Week
• Three Minute Retreat
• You-Who-Do-Through Strategy