A PRAYER BOOKLET for CHILDREN In KEY STAGE ONE This prayer booklet includes the prayers of the Church that each child should know at the end of the year. We do not want to limit your child to just the prayers in this booklet but we would like you to teach them these basic prayers, to practise with them, encourage them and pray with them. Thank you for your support in this important matter. Prayer to the Holy Spirit (simple version) Year 1 Eternal Rest Year 1 Holy Spirit, I want to do what is right. Help me. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord Holy Spirit, I want to live like Jesus. Guide me. And let perpetual light shine upon them. Holy Spirit, I want to pray like Jesus. May they rest in peace. Amen. Teach me May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, Amen rest in peace. Amen. Mass response Year 1 Mass Responses Year 2 1. C. The Lord be with you 5. C. The peace of the Lord be with you P. And also with you. always P. And also with you 2. C: This is the word of the Lord. P. Thanks be to God. 6. C. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. 3. C. The Gospel according to ..... P. Thanks be to God. P. Glory to you Lord 7. C. Lord have mercy 4. C. This is the Gospel of the Lord P. Lord have mercy, P. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ C. Christ have mercy P. Christ have mercy C. Lord have mercy C. Lord have mercy Confiteor Year 2 I confess to almighty God Please continue to practise the following prayers with your child. and to you, my brothers and sisters, Sign of the Cross, that I have sinned through my own fault (all strike their breast) Morning and Night prayers in my thoughts and in my words, Grace before and after meals in what I have done and in what I have failed to do; Our Father and I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, Hail Mary all the angels and saints, and you, Glory be to the Father my brothers and sisters Prayer to Guardian Angel to pray for me to the Lord our God. Amen .