Product Review

A great collection of prayer services to help sixth, seventh and eighth graders explore God, their faith, and the complexities of adolescence in fun and creative ways. Using language, ideas, and formats familiar to tweens, these prayers introduce methods like meditation, litanies, intercessions, novenas, and even the ancient scriptural prayer, lectio divina, to middle school kids. There are noisy prayer celebrations and quiet, contemplative devotions. There are prayers to mark Church seasons and feast days, and prayers that get students moving, thinking, reading Scripture, and shouting praise. In addition, there are prayers that connect faith concepts and the lives of the saints to the realities of being an adolescent in today s world.

Busy catechists and religion teachers will discover that most of these prayer services require very little preparation, so they can focus on helping students discover that God s immense love for them is here to stay long after middle school is over.