Basic prayers for teens

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I am working on a session on prayer for a youth group. I was hoping somebody could suggest some site where there is a list of 15 or so Catholic prayers. I am looking for one that would interest teens.

Catholic.org has this section but it doesn’t seem too “teen friendly” (for lack of a better term). catholic.org/prayers/

Any ideas?
 
Dear Br. Matthew,
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    :I can feel the apprehension in your post and one can detect that you surely are putting your heart of hearts into this.    On  Mt. Hebron over looking the  Tigris-Euphrates river plain  legend has it that the sons of  Seth toiled tilling their fields, watering their gardens & orchards and tending their flocks. Even today this is a beautiful area. It is said they  sang as they worked. According to this tradition they sang  joyfully giving blessings, praises, honor & thanks to the Lord for the beauty of  Life they saw & felt in daily experiences. Legend says also their devotion to the Lord was so deep the angelic hosts were compelled to chime in with them as they toiled  tending gardens and orchards.  Everything worthy in daily life was offered to God and the Lord blessed them.
St. Theresa of Avila wrote of prayer without words. If you could only impart this teaching to your students which is to me that prayer springs from the heart. That daily prayer should not be a daily chore but a joyful sharing with our Creator.
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    Morning prayers, prayers with meals,  noontime prayer and prayer before sleep  are all important.  Soul of  Christ,  Come Holy Spirit,   the  Rosary, and  the Prayer to St. Michael are  my favorite prayers.    Teenagers get bored so it would be better to say the Rosary  over a  period of  days  than not say it at all.
Many Blessings this Lenten Season,
BP

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I personally find, as a teen, that the rosary is one of the best prayers to pray. Whenever in need of inspiration, meditation on the mysteries is the best way to go. Now, I may be a little more religious than most teens 😃 but, still I recommend even just a decade of the rosary to help life run smoothly.
 
Thanks for all the helpful ideas. I concur with the idea that prayer is not about saying prayers but saying prayers helps. I was looking for a site that I could forward to the teens so they have some prayers rather than printing a bunch out for them. (They know the Our Father but probably not the Memorare.)

One other site (it was linked from a suggested site): ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/index.asp
 
landon13 said:
I personally find, as a teen, that the rosary is one of the best prayers to pray. Whenever in need of inspiration, meditation on the mysteries is the best way to go. Now, I may be a little more religious than most teens 😃 but, still I recommend even just a decade of the rosary to help life run smoothly.
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Exactly. The best prayers for teens are the same as the best prayers for everyone-traditional prayers. Teens don’t want “teen friendly” prayers. They want and need prayers they’re not going to grow out of when they become adults.
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
Exactly. The best prayers for teens are the same as the best prayers for everyone-traditional prayers. Teens don’t want “teen friendly” prayers. They want and need prayers they’re not going to grow out of when they become adults.
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Agreed, maybe I should have been clearer at the beginning. What I was looking for was the same prayers in a teen-friendly format. For instance go to Catholic.org then go to Lifeteen.com and tell me which format a teen would be more likely to read. Plus, certain prayers, prayers for chastity or for students for example, would take on a bigger role in a set of prayers directed to teens.
 
MPSchneiderLC said:
Agreed, maybe I should have been clearer at the beginning. What I was looking for was the same prayers in a teen-friendly format. For instance go to Catholic.org then go to Lifeteen.com and tell me which format a teen would be more likely to read. Plus, certain prayers, prayers for chastity or for students for example, would take on a bigger role in a set of prayers directed to teens.
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I suppose fostering devotions to St. Thomas Aquinas (patron saint of students) and St. Expeditus (patron saint of procrastinators) could be helpful for students.
 
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