Children's Liturgy Card
Description
CL01
Children's Liturgy Card
ITEM
Children's Liturgy Prayer Card
PRODUCT CODE
CL01
SUITABILITY
For use at church and school liturgies and comes from the experience of arranging liturgies for children, acknowledging the need for familiarity and a constant structure for adult leaders to work within. A clearly presented card, ideal for young children of school age with simple guidance and short prayers. The reverse of the card has a guide to the parts of the mass, alongside a single phrase that explains to children what is happening.
WORDING
Following the opening prayer ‘From my head to my heart, from shoulder to shoulder, I belong to God’ the card is divided into five sections – Sorry Prayers, The Gospel, Our Prayers, Offertory and Thank You – all with simple guidance and short prayers. The reverse of the card has a guide to the parts of the mass, alongside a single phrase that explains to children what is happening.
The ‘Hail Mary’ prayer is included, as is the wording of two Watermead children’s hymns, "St Anthony's Sorry Song" and the "Thank You Song" which can be sung or simply prayed together.
PRESENTATION
Each card is A4 folded to A5 with a laminated coating as protection from little fingers.
SIZE
148 mm x 210 mm when folded
NOTE
Sheet Music is available for the wording of the two Watermead hymns given on the card.
Additional product information
- More information
- WATERMEAD STORY Children have always been involved in our apostolate and are represented in many of the items produced. From as young as four or five years of age they have sang on our recordings and submitted prayers and poems - their participation always encouraged. Most of the children were introduced to the work of the apostolate through attending parish children’s liturgy, and at St Theresa’s, the birth parish of Watermead, a thriving band of over thirty children led the music and prayer at mass once a month for over 20 years – resulting in many hymns and songs being written especially for them, some of which they sang on our recording 'A Little Child Shall Lead'. When Watermead moved to St. Joseph’s the first publishing project undertaken was designing a prayer card for the newly-formed Children’s Liturgy. The design of the card was inspired by a verse given us by Gill that she had used, through her experience in school, of teaching little children to make the Sing of the Cross - ‘From my head to my heart, from shoulder to shoulder, I belong to God’. It then followed that we included the wording of two of our children's hymns as prayers.