Does Prayer improve outcomes?

That is the premise for my learning log.
But, which outcomes and whose prayer?

Are the prayers that improve outcomes ours or the children’s? And what about the prayer, is it
with the students
in Mass
in class
noon meditation or prayers
at assembly,
for the students
staff prayer
our personal prayer life
or by the students?
Stage Mass
Stage reconciliation
Class liturgies
Assembly prayer
Personal prayer

There are almost too many questions to be answered and maybe it is not up to us to have the answers, but I believe we must continue to come back to these questions in our drive for an authentic Christian Catholic identity.

I would like to open up discussion on these big questions as I search for some answers. To this end I have set up another blog for us to share our ideas. Please go to the space and comment or even better find things to post yourself.

Prayer sustains the soul just as food sustains the body and when we share we become a community. I really hope that there is nothing heavy or threatening in any of this, please join in the search for some answers.

Margaret

- Get Your Own

What do you think???!!!

I asked the children about making the sign of the cross.
Why do we do it?
What does it mean?
What do we think will happen?

The answers were interesting but if we asked ourselves and each other the same three questions, what would our answers be?

After thousands of times making this sign does it have any personal meaning and what does it trigger in us?

The sign of the cross is often seen as the way we begin prayer, but is it more and what is prayer these days anyway?

There are so many any ways to experience prayer and with the internet and email there are now all those feel good little poems floating out there in the ether. What do they do for us, what do we do after reading them, do we feel any better?