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A PARENT'S PRAYER

HAVE a boy to bring up.

Help me to perform my task with wisdom and kindness and good cheer. Help me always to see him clearly, as he is. Let not my pride in him hide his faults. Let not my fear for him magnify my doubts and fears until I make him doubting and fearful in his turn.

Quicken my judgment so that I shall know to train him to think as a child, to be in all things pure and simple as a child.

I have a boy to bring up.

Give me great patience and a long memory. Let me remember the hard places in my own youth, so that I may help when I see him struggling as I struggled then.

Let me remember the things that made me glad, lest I, sweating in the toil and strain of life, forget that a little child's laughter is the light of life..

I have a boy to bring up.

Teach me that love that understandeth all things; the Love that knows no weakness, tolerates no selfishness. Keep me from weak

ening my son through granting him pleasures that end in pain, ease of body that must bring sickness of soul, a vision of life that must end in death. Grant that I love my son wisely and myself not at all.

I have a son to bring up.

Give him the values and beauty and just rewards of industry. Give him an understanding brain and hands that are cunning, to work out his happiness.

I have a boy to bring up.

Help me to send him into the world with a mission of service.

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Strengthen my mind and teach him that he is his brother's keeper. Grant that he may serve those who know not the need of service, and not knowing, need it the most.

I have a boy to bring up.

So guide and direct me that I may do this service to the glory of God, the service of my country, and to my son's happiness. AMEN. Angelo Patri

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THE LORD'S PRAYER

UR FATHER, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. AMEN.

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LMIGHTY GOD, who hast given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications unto Thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in Thy name, Thou wilt grant their requests, fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of Thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of Thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. AMEN.

St. Chrysostom

THOU who comprehendest mother love, send Thy richest blessings upon my mother. Thou hast put about me the ripening companionship of her womanhood. My life spans the years that have changed her from youth to old age; my experience has been won at the cost of her toilings; my failures have brought her secret pain; my foolish pride has melted before her indulgent love; my manhood has been nurtured by her care. All that is holy in me comes from her unspoken teachings; all that is wicked has gathered out of the moments when I had forgotten her. Grant unto her in the approaching days when her great love will be embodied in a feebler frame, the fruitage of her years of labor. May the life of her son be fair for her to see. May peace be the companion of her memories, and confidence the comrade of her mother hopes. May all that she endured that I might be for her a joy and pride bring her into a rich heritage. O Father, Thou hast been merciful through such a mother; may her life never have been lived in vain.

AMEN.

Irving Maurer