Friday Morning Prayer for 2006-03-03
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Please take out your Hymn and Prayer Book.
Good Morning Mr Kwok, Teachers and Students!
Today is the last day of school for our Form Seven students. They are leaving us to prepare for their Advanced Level Examination. The Advanced Level Examination is the last major public examination to sit for as a teenager. You see, this is quite an important examination. The result of this examination determines if you are going to further your studies or you have to start looking for a job. If you are going to further your studies, the result will determine what kind of courses you are going to follow and where you are going to study: either a university or an IVE. Well, this sounds very important. But believe it or not, taking examinations or even studying is not the most important thing in life. You may ask, why do we have to take examinations or why do we have to study at all?
Well, we study to learn about how to look, how to live, how to love. The knowledge that you have received, that is the things that you have learnt at school, by doing projects, writing reports, doing experiments and reciting passages by heart etc, should become wisdom: wisdom to help you to look at the world around us, wisdom to live a meaningful life and wisdom to love God and others. Indeed, wisdom is far more important than knowledge.
In any case, I hope all of you will remember that studying is not just to receive knowledge but also to learn the wisdom of life. One wise thing you should have learnt at St Joseph’s is to pray always.
So let us now pray for God’s protection for the Form Seven students as they leave St Joseph’s to prepare for their Advanced Level Examination. We pray that they would study hard and the exam results would truly reflect their ability and efforts. And, we pray that God would give us all wisdom, wisdom to look at the world around us, wisdom to live a meaningful life and wisdom to love God and others.
Let us say one Our Father together. I invite all the students, especially the Form Seven students to say the prayers loud and clear, since this is the last morning prayer for these F.7 students.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Our Father in heaven, Holy be your Name, Your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the test but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Now let us sing the song on page 5 of your prayer book. We will sing the first two verses.
St Joseph, pray for us. St Francis, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Brother William OFM
Please take out your Hymn and Prayer Book.
Good Morning Mr Kwok, Teachers and Students!
Today is the last day of school for our Form Seven students. They are leaving us to prepare for their Advanced Level Examination. The Advanced Level Examination is the last major public examination to sit for as a teenager. You see, this is quite an important examination. The result of this examination determines if you are going to further your studies or you have to start looking for a job. If you are going to further your studies, the result will determine what kind of courses you are going to follow and where you are going to study: either a university or an IVE. Well, this sounds very important. But believe it or not, taking examinations or even studying is not the most important thing in life. You may ask, why do we have to take examinations or why do we have to study at all?
Well, we study to learn about how to look, how to live, how to love. The knowledge that you have received, that is the things that you have learnt at school, by doing projects, writing reports, doing experiments and reciting passages by heart etc, should become wisdom: wisdom to help you to look at the world around us, wisdom to live a meaningful life and wisdom to love God and others. Indeed, wisdom is far more important than knowledge.
In any case, I hope all of you will remember that studying is not just to receive knowledge but also to learn the wisdom of life. One wise thing you should have learnt at St Joseph’s is to pray always.
So let us now pray for God’s protection for the Form Seven students as they leave St Joseph’s to prepare for their Advanced Level Examination. We pray that they would study hard and the exam results would truly reflect their ability and efforts. And, we pray that God would give us all wisdom, wisdom to look at the world around us, wisdom to live a meaningful life and wisdom to love God and others.
Let us say one Our Father together. I invite all the students, especially the Form Seven students to say the prayers loud and clear, since this is the last morning prayer for these F.7 students.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Our Father in heaven, Holy be your Name, Your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the test but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Now let us sing the song on page 5 of your prayer book. We will sing the first two verses.
St Joseph, pray for us. St Francis, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Brother William OFM
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