Novena for the Youth

We offer you, Loving God, the gifts and needs of youth.
Bless them with your guiding grace as they face the challenges and opportunities in their lives.
Touch their hearts with the gentleness of your love, that they may know they are valued and valuable beings.
Send your spirit of hope to their lives, that they may believe in themselves and know they are needed in this world.
Grace them with the gift of joy that they may celebrate life through laughter and tears alike.
Guide us, as we continue to grow in appreciation of the many gifts of young people, in the ministry opportunities we offer to them, in the journey of faith we walk with them, in our shared mission as a community called to discipleship in the world.
We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

The Journey to Holiness: Pray, Live Love!

Help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go. 
Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love. 
Penetrate and possess my whole Return to being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine. 
Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul. 
Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus. 
Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.

Praying With Mary: For Kids

Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Novena to the Servant of God: Carlo Acutis

Dear Father,
Who has given us the ardent testimony
of the young Servant of God, Carlo Acutis,
who made the Eucharist the core of his life
and strength of his daily commitments
so that everybody may love You above all else,
let him soon be counted among 
the Blesseds and Saints in Your Church.

Confirm my Faith
nurture my Hope,
strengthen my Charity
in the image of young Carlo,
who, growing in these virtues,
now lives with You.

Grant me the grace I really need....

I trust in you, Father, and your Beloved Son Jesus,
in the Virgin Mary, our Dearest Mother,
and in the intervention of Your Servant, Carlo Acutis.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be