{"id":3031,"date":"2012-08-01T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:49:32","slug":"prayer-of-blessing-for-students-and-teachers-to-begin-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/prayer-of-blessing-for-students-and-teachers-to-begin-the-school-year","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of Blessing for Students and Teachers to Begin the School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my favorite things about starting a new month is opening up a new issue of Give Us This Day: Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic<\/a><\/em>. The opening pages for this month’s edition greeted me with a prayer for students and teachers from the Book of Blessings<\/em>, and I thought you might like to consider it as you prepare for the new school year:<\/p>\n

Lord our God,<\/em>
\n in your wisdom and love<\/em>
\n you surround us with the mysteries of the universe.<\/em>
\n In times long past you sent us your prophets<\/em>
\n to teach your laws<\/em>
\n and to bear witness to your undying love.<\/em>
\n You sent us your Son<\/em>
\n to teach us by word and example<\/em>
\n that true wisdom comes from you alone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Send your Spirit upon these students and their teachers<\/em>
\n and fill them with your wisdom and blessings.<\/em>
\n Grant that during this academic year<\/em>
\n they may devote themselves to their studies<\/em>
\n and share what they have learned from others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grant this through Christ our Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those of us who teach in Catholic schools are the prophets God sends in our time to teach his laws and bear witness to his undying love. We are called to be Christ to our students, to teach them by word and example that true wisdom comes from God alone.<\/p>\n

As you return from vacation and begin preparing for this year’s adventure in teaching, may God bless you with all the graces you need to be his prophet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things about starting a new month is opening up a new issue of Give Us This Day: Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic. The opening pages for this month’s edition greeted me with a prayer for students and teachers from the Book of Blessings, and I thought you might like to consider … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Prayer of Blessing for Students and Teachers to Begin the School Year”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-MT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3047,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/more-back-to-school-prayers","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":0},"title":"More Back to School Prayers","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"August 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A Concord Pastor Comments is a must-read blog, and today Fr. 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