As this week celebrates Catholic Schools Week, we paid special tribute today to our wonderful grandparents. Our Key Stage 2 pupils attended and participated in morning Mass through reading and song. We prayed for our grandparents who love us and care for us and who guide and lead us in our Faith.
In class today our P7 pupils talked about all the great things their grandparents do for them and sometimes these marvellous deeds can go unnoticed. We want our grandparents to know that we love them and thank them for all the things they do for us. As we continue our Faith journey in preparation for Confirmation, we will always endeavour to keep our grandparents in our prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer for Grandparents
Lord Jesus,
you were born of the Virgin Mary,
the daughter of Saints Joachim and Anne.
Look with love on grandparents the world over.
Protect them! They are a source of enrichment
for families, for the Church and for all of society.
Support them! As they grow older,
may they continue to be for their families
strong pillars of Gospel faith,
guardians of noble domestic ideals,
living treasuries of sound religious traditions.
Make them teachers of wisdom and courage,
that they may pass on to future generations the fruits
of their mature human and spiritual experience.
Lord Jesus,
help families and society
to value the presence and role of grandparents.
May they never be ignored or excluded,
but always encounter respect and love.
Help them to live serenely and to feel welcomed
in all the years of life which you give them.
Mary, Mother of all the living,
keep grandparents constantly in your care,
accompany them on their earthly pilgrimage,
and by your prayers, grant that all families
may one day be reunited in our heavenly homeland,
where you await all humanity
for the great embrace of life without end.
Amen
