"We provide a nurturing learning environment focused on academic and spiritual development." - OLL Principal Kathleen Cotilletta
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School Prayer
Prayer is an important part of our Catholic Faith and is integrated into every school day at Our Lady of Lourdes.
Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
O Mary, Mother of Mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comforter of the suffering, you know our needs, our troubles, our sorrows. Look with mercy on us. By appearing at the Grotto of Lourdes, you made it an honored sanctuary where you bestow your favors. Many sufferers have obtained the cure of their ailments, both spiritual and physical. We come, therefore, with complete confidence to implore your maternal intercession, O loving Mother, we ask you to grant our requests. With gratitude for your favors, we will endeavor to imitate your virtues that we may one day share in your glory.
Amen.
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Let us all continue to remember that what is truly important is that we pray, not where we pray. Prayer can be formal or informal, verbal or nonverbal, active or contemplative. Prayer is communicating with God. Just as we talk and share with our best friends what is happening in our lives, so we talk and share with God. Just as we listen to our friends, so we listen to God. As in human communication, our communication with God can be expressed in a variety of ways. We communicate with God using words and songs, in imagination and silence, and ritually or spontaneously. We can pray in church, our gardens, our cars, or while in the shower. We can also pray lying in bed, as the first thing we do when we awake, and as the last thing we do as we drift off to sleep. One of the characteristics of prayer we as Catholics believe is that with the right intention every moment of the day all our hopes, works, joys, and sufferings can become our prayer.
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