25 Oct 2024
Celebrating International Teachers’ Day
Thank you to our amazing teachers and for all that you do for our students. You make Sacred Heart a wonderful place!
We pray,
God of Love, thank you for every teacher who notices a child special gift. Thank you for teachers who are listeners and gentle guides. Thank you for teachers who expect much and love enough to demand more. Thank you for the special teacher each one of us remembers.
God of Mercy, sustain teaches who give everything they have. Help exhausted teachers rest.
God of Strength, encourage teachers to care and inspire them to nourish. Motivate teachers to keep on learning for the fun of it and to make learning enjoyable for children.
We wonder at teachers who know how to quiet a class of five-year-olds or help fourth graders be empathetic. We admire teachers who enjoy middle school writers or teach maths or history. Bless the people who are expected to accomplish these miracles and who know how to comfort children when miracles don’t happen.
God of Justice, help and support teaches in their special calling, where they teach and whatever obstacles they must face. We pray these things in the name of our great teacher, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
(Red Deer Regional Catholic Schools Board, Alberta, Canada)