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St. Augustine's School Prayer

Our Father in Heaven,

Look over and bless St. Augustine’s while we are working and playing.

Help us to respect and care for each other as you taught us to.

Give us the opportunity to do our best for you each day.

We look forward to being able to share our lives with our friends and families.

Keep us safe and give us the courage to be

people who want to know you more.

Amen.

I invite all families to pray this prayer at home, maybe one morning each week.

Prayer of the Week

Jesus,

Your dear friend and apostle Peter is a guiding light for us all,

Let Peter’s way of following you help us to love you more dearly,

Peter’s willingness to follow you Jesus inspires us.

Peter found it difficult at times and needed to struggle in order to be wholly focussed on you; when we find it difficult to follow you we ask for St. Peter’s reflective heart which helped him to go back to you.

Guide us closer to the dream you have for us.

Peter had to ask for forgiveness, give us the courage and open hearts needed to say sorry and to grieve because we have not loved you as much as we can.

Jesus you appointed Peter as leader to care for your flock, we ask you to bless us and show us, like Peter how to lead others to you.

We make this prayer in your name.

Amen.

Scripture of the Week

Matthew 16:13-20

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said, ‘the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.’ Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.