Orange Shirt Day Liturgy – Se also this Orange Shirt Day
Start your year with:
Backpack blessings – a graced way to sent students off with our parish community support. Here is a sample from Light of Christ Catholic School Division: Sample Here is rough outline of the celebration including blessings on teachers and staff.
Another great thing to do is invite your teachers to a Sunday Mass just before school starts and give them a blessing involving the whole parish – here is a sample of one such prayer from discipleblog
Some Prayers from the Archdiocese of Dublin Education Secretariat.
A great Blog with some back to school thoughts: A Concord Pastor Comments On Spirituality, Worship and Prayer in the Roman Catholic Tradition
Some General resource sites:
Australian: Brisbane Catholic Prayer Resources
Catholic Admin’s prayer collection – Catholic Principal’s Council of Ontario
Children’s Liturgy of the Word (Kids Liturgy) – Of Diocese Wollongong Australia
Pinterest and Children’s Liturgy
RESource – Melbourne Catholic Education Office
Great prayers by theme – Thanks Renfrew Catholic
Prayers for Athletes: Notre Dame Univ. + Pray Like a Champion Daily Prayers
End of school year prayers:
See the June prayers section of Renfrew Catholic’s Prayer pages
Prayer for year end from Immaculate Conception Catholic School TX
The Religion Teacher year end activities
End of Year prayer – Appleseeds.org
