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Prayers to Learn
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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES LEARNING PRAYERS
All of the students in religious education classes are assigned the following prayers to learn and memorize at home with their parents. Prayer begins at home. Parents are the first teachers of the Catholic Faith to their children. Catechists will be reviewing these prayers with children throughout the year, so be sure to make prayer an important part of your family life. All the prayers your children are learning may be found in the appendix in the back of their textbooks.
Prayers to be learned by grade level. Parents should teach their children these prayers:- Kindergarten : Sign of the Cross and Glory Be
- Grade 1: Our Father and Hail Mary
- Grade 2: Act of Contrition
- Grade 3: Apostles’ Creed
- Grade 4: Grace Before/After Meals
- Grade 5: Rosary and Hail Holy Queen
- Grade 6: The Ten Commandments and the Law of Love
- Grade 7: Nicene Creed (New Roman Missal edition)
- Grade 8: Nicene Creed (New Roman Missal edition)
The raising of one's mind and heart to God in thanksgiving and in praise of his glory. It can also include the requesting of good things from God. It is an act by which one enters into awareness of a loving communion with God. "Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God" (CCC, no. 2561).
—From the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
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