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Prayer
  • Interactive Online Rosary
  • The Rosary - Month of the Rosary
  • Helpful worksheets to take notes while learning the  Mysteries of the Rosary
  • Teaching the Rosary  - Worksheets and activities from Jared Dees are available in the RE office
  • A lesson helping students  link the Hail Mary to Ave Maria
  • How to make "sacrifice beads"  which can be used as a one-decade rosary, to keep track of good deeds, to keep track of practicing the virtues, etc.
  • Making prayer bracelets - beads to earn as each prayer is memorized
  • About  using imagination in prayer
  • Imagine - a short podcast course in Ignatian  contemplation.
  • Jesus and prayer
  • Resources for praying with Scripture in the classroom
  • Lots of fun memorization games - can work with Scripture verses and with prayers
  • Jared Dees - Teaching   Lectio Divina and Ignatian prayer with Scripture - worksheets and activities available in the RE office.
  • Some hints for doing   lectio divina  with kids.
  • A video guide to   lectio divina  with Fr. James Martin.
  • A video guide to Ignatian meditation  with Fr. James Martin
  •  Praying the Examen    (with other material to help guide students  here  and  here)
  • Resources for using the Examen
  • A video guide to the Examen - how people use it.
  • Another    video guide to the Examen​
  • A   walk through of the Examen   on YouTube
  • Working many of these prayer forms into your daily life.
  • We have  pdfs of the Stations of the Cross that your students can color and display in class. See Cathy.
  • A collection of Stations of the Cross activities from Jared Dees.
  • Stations of the Cross activities sheets.
  • Ascension to Pentecost - the original novena.  Poster and booklet.
  • A lesson plan on the Lord's Prayer - Jared Dees
  • Resources about the labyrinth as a tool for prayer:
    • Children and the use of the labyrinth
    • The  labyrinth in Lent
    • Prayers to  use with the labyrinth
    • Scripture to use with the labyrinth
    • Walking the labyrinth
    • The finger labyrinth
  • ​Doing Eucharistic Adoration with students
    • ​​Guide for grades three through eight
    • Guide for younger students