Prayer service
Song – Unche Unche Parvet.
Jesus says
you are the light of the world. Light
symbolizes God and it dispels darkness. As we begin our prayer service let us
invite God in our midst. Now I invite Rev. Sr. Rose the Manager, Rev. Sr. Joyce
our Principal, Mrs.Anita, (Neelam) the head girl and the head boy to light the
Lamp. We will now surrender our students into the loving hands of God our
loving father and ask his choicest blessings upon them.
(Song)
Dear friends as we have gathered here
our hearts are filled with gratitude to God for all the blessings that He has
bestowed on us yet our hearts are intermingled with gladness and sadness and these
feelings that are so intense as we bid farewell to each of us.
Dear friends we all of us have
seen a variety of cups. A cup is a container which holds something. Whatever it
holds has to be eventually emptied out into it. Our journey is like that a
constant process of empting and filling, of giving and receiving, of accepting
and letting go. Ravindranath Tagore says “a numberless meetings and partings
are there in this world
As we journey in this world. ” With
gratitude in our hearts we come before you dear Lord because marvelous ways you
have worked wonders in the lives of these young ones. You have showered upon
them your choicest graces during the past 12 years.
God is the giver of every gift;
we are only recipients of God’s many gifts given to us so that we may be
channels of His love and life to each other. A sincere act of gratitude springs
from a deep rooted faith and reliance on God. It is a gracious gratitude a sign
of maturity that indicates a positive outlook in one’s life. Each time we show
gratitude we grow as persons because it enriches our life. When an attitude of
gratitude takes root in us it evokes praise and becomes the basics for
acceptance and love leading to happiness and inner freedom.
(Song – You are precious to me)
Silence
(Story) The Eagle
It is said that an
eagle has an incredible life span of 70 years but in order to reach 70 years it
must make a hard decision to die or to live .In its 40’s its long flexible
talon can no longer grab prey to consume. Its long sharp beak becomes bent with
.Its wings get heavy and make flying a labor rather than an effortless task of
its youthful years .The eagle decides to harness its inner energy and so
undergoes a painful process that spans 150 years .It flies to its nest and the
first thing it does is to rip its beak off and allow a new one to grow. It then
pulls out its talons or nails. After they have grown it begins to pluck out all
its feathers. All of this is a long torturous process that takes 5 long months.
After this eagle glides smoothly across the blue skies celebrating its new
lease of life. We too like the eagle are confronted with choices but unlike the
eagle ours is not a once and for all choice but a daily choice.
( Song – Lord I come to you.)
Dear friends
in the Holy Bible it is said that everything that happens at the time God chooses.
Everything has its time for everything there is a season and a time for every
matter under heaven. So dear students, we have come to celebrate our
togetherness as a class. Today as you look back on the years you have spent
within the walls of this school, surely you feel a deep nostalgia for the
bygone days. When you first entered the school, you were so tiny and it was
really difficult for you to part from your dear parents. Very soon you came to
love the school and all its inmates. You became a part and parcel of this great
family. The same difficulty arises when you think of leaving the school. The
bonds of love cannot be broken, yet you cannot always be at school. The time
has come for you to step out into the world and be a light to those groping in
darkness. You are going out with a resolution to make a difference wherever you
will be. Live up to the values placed before you and always be royal and
grateful to your St. Francis School.
Dear
students many blessings you have been receiving from God through many persons
like parents, teachers. Let us offer our prayers for them.
1.Lord, we pray a special blessing on this school. Bless all
the children who spend their time in this school. Give them a desire to learn
and grow. Bless their hard work and give them success.
- We are grateful, Lord, for our Principals who
have directed our lives during the past 12 years. We pray in a very
special way for Sr. Joyce our Principal, who has had so much to do with us
during this last year of our school life. We are grateful to her selfless
toil and for all the helps she provided for our physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual growth.
- Thank you, Lord, for all the teachers who have
come into our lives so forcefully. Those who moulded us and formed us in
our Junior Classes and those who gave us a taste for knowledge and a
desire to grow into beautiful persons. Bless in a special way the teachers
who have toiled hard these last few years preparing us for our Board
Exams. You be their reward.
- We pray for the Librarian, the Clerks, and all
who work to keep our school neat and clean the gardener, the many security
personnel, and our domestic staff who help us in many ways. Bless them,
Lord, abundantly.
- We pray for each one of us, about to step out
into the wider world. We are grateful to our St. Francis School. We have
grown under her shadow and are proud to be called her children. Be with us
on our journey of life and help us to be an inspiration to our co – travelers.
Let us now surrender all these prayers into the loving hands
of our heavenly Father as we pray together – Our Father.
I now invite Rev. Sr. ..... to come forward and bless
all the students as we extend our hands, asking God to bless them.
Circle them, Lord.
Keep protection near
And danger afar.
Circle them, Lord
Keep hope within.
Keep doubt without.
Circle them, Lord.
Keep light near
And darkness afar.
Circle them, Lord.
Keep peace within.
Keep evil out. Amen.
(Song) – There shall be showers of blessings.
Dear students I invite you to call to mind the values
you have learnt and the values you want to live. (Pause)as you move out in line
with your candles, light the candle and
write down one value which you are going to practice as you move out from this
Institution.
(Students will write the values on the
papers)
(We are pearls)
- Lord, we pray a special blessing on this school.
Bless all the children who spend their time in this school. Give them a
desire to learn and grow. Bless their hard work and give them
success.
- We are grateful, Lord, for our Principals who
have directed our lives during the past 12 years. We pray in a very
special way for Sr. Joyce our Principal, who has had so much to do with us
during this last year of our school life. We are grateful to her selfless
toil and for all the helps she provided for our physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual growth.
- Thank you, Lord, for all the teachers who have
come into our lives so forcefully. Those who moulded us and formed us in
our Junior Classes and those who gave us a taste for knowledge and a
desire to grow into beautiful persons. Bless in a special way the teachers
who have toiled hard these last few years preparing us for our Board
Exams. You be their reward.
- We pray for the Librarian, the Clerks, and all
who work to keep our school neat and clean the gardener, the many security
personnel, and our domestic staff who help us in many ways. Bless them,
Lord, abundantly.
- We pray for each one of us, about to step out
into the wider world. We are grateful to our St. Francis School. We have
grown under her shadow and are proud to be called her children. Be with us
on our journey of life and help us to be an inspiration to our co –
travelers.
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