Years 7 to 10 - Ways to Pray

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

BCE Religious life of the school Prayer Library

Additional prayers
for this learning phase