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forms of prayer
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PraiSe
Catechist background
Praise prayers are easy to teach! we become God’s cheerleaders whenever we pray this type of prayer. we get to tell God what a great job God is doing! Many of the psalms found in the book of Psalms are praise prayers. For example, Psalm 66 reads: “shout with joy to God, all the earth! sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious! say to God, ‘how awesome are your deeds!’” in our own prayer, we might pray “Praise God for the miracle of life” or “Praise God for my best friend.” e Glory be prayer is one of the best “cheers for God.”
PrAiSe LeSSon PLan 1
Objectives
□ To discuss what it means to praise God □ To write praise prayers
materials
□ Markers
□ Craft sticks to glue owers on
□ Three Styrofoam cups, per child, for praise bells □ Ribbon
lesson
▪ Gather the children around you. review the types of prayer: intercession, Petition, blessing, Praise, and anksgiving.
▪ sing the Prayer song found on page 37. ▪ Focus on Praise prayers. discuss what it
means to praise someone. ask children
to share times when someone has praised them and how they felt. Talk about how God feels when we praise him. Point out that the Gloria at Mass is a praise prayer. discuss how the Glory be is also a praise prayer.
▪ From the previous lesson, get the ower center that says “Praise.” ▪ Get eight previously cut out petals.
▪ write a “Praise Prayer” on each of the petals. ▪ Glue the petals onto the center.
▪ Glue the ower blossom onto a craft stick
and put the craft stick in the owerpot. ▪ Proceed with making praise bells. ▪ have the children share their
praise prayers with the class. ▪ sing the Prayer song.
Praise bells activity
1 Get three styrofoam cups.
2 on one cup write “Glory be to the Father and to the son and to the holy spirit.”
3 on the other two cups, write a praise prayer. 4 Punch a hole in the bottom of the cups. Take your ribbon and thread it through.
5 hang the bells in your room.
PrAiSe LeSSon PLan 2
Catechist background
e book of Psalms is a collection of 150 song-po- ems. e Psalms were composed over a period of about one thousand years. e Psalms are quoted frequently in the new Testament. e Psalms can be loosely classi ed according to seven di erent themes: 1. Praise—extol the nature of God, 2. his- torical—focus on the history of the Jewish people, 3. ethical—focus on human’s responsibility, 4. Pen- itence—focus on human sinfulness, 5. imprecato- ry—prayer for the defeat of one’s enemies, 6. Mes- sianic—for christians, christ has ful lled these, 7. ceremonial—focus on Jewish worship rites.
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