Pray with Me

Seven Simple Ways to Pray with Your Children

by Grace Mazza Urbanski

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Pub Date Sep 04 2015 | Archive Date Oct 29 2015

Description

There are opportunities for children to pray everywhere—when a friend gets hurt on the playground, before a test in the classroom, as they hear ambulance sirens while riding in the car with mom or dad—not just at meals and bedtime. In Pray with Me,Urbanski identifies seven ways that parents can help deepen their child’s relationship with God by using everyday life as a trigger for prayer. She shows how spontaneous prayer, traditional prayers you know by heart, scripture, song, silence, and reflection help families draw closer to God and each other.

Urbanski weaves personal stories with a heartfelt devotion to Christ to teach parents how to help their children learn to respond to life in prayer.

Advance Praise

"Pray with Me, a practical, down-to-earth guide, is filled with suggestions for helping you, your children, and your grandchildren to make prayer a part of everyday life. The author examines memorized prayer, sung prayer, lectio divina, Ignatian and other forms of prayer, and how to experience them with youngsters. At the same time, it assists parents and grandparents in deepening their own prayer life, leading to strong family bonds with Jesus and one another."
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
Archbishop of New York

“In Pray with Me, Grace Mazza Urbanski walks alongside parents in a thoughtful consideration of the gift of prayer. Grace shares from her theological expertise and a mother’s caring heart to inspire you into a dialogue with God and your family. She gives us highly useful ideas to make prayer an active part of our domestic church. I highly recommend this for any parent, grandparent, son, or daughter looking to grow closer to God and their loved ones.”

Lisa M. Hendey
Founder of CatholicMom.com and author of The Grace of Yes

“Grace Mazza Urbanski has gifted us with a smart, engaging, and thoughtful book to jump-start prayer life with our children. Pray with Me is a great way to invite young parents to see the goodness of God in the midst of the messy calling known as parenting.”

Tim and Sue Muldoon
Authors of Six Sacred Rules for Families

“At the turn of millennium, Pope St. John Paul II said that our communities need to be ‘schools of prayer.’ Through personal stories and very practical suggestions, Grace Mazza Urbanski provides the material for families to become schools of prayer. She does so in a humorous and moving way that makes Pray with Me both fun and inspiring.”

Rev. James Kubicki
National director of the Apostleship of Prayer

"Pray with Me, a practical, down-to-earth guide, is filled with suggestions for helping you, your children, and your grandchildren to make prayer a part of everyday life. The author examines...

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Featured Reviews

Shane H, Librarian

The book is written from the perspective of a parent or grandparent teaching prayer to children. This is a daunting task, which is the reason I requested the title from Ave Maria Press. My wife and step-children recently joined the church, and helping them develop a prayer life is important to me. It’s also the weak link in my spiritual life. I needed some help.
Grace Mazza Urbanski has penned a book on learning to pray that was very different than I expected. Instead of a step-by-step technical manual on prayer, I found a well crafted narrative on seven different ways to pray(Every modern parent should probably turn straight to the chapter on Silent Prayer).
She fills her narrative with concrete examples of how these methods have worked in the past and the advice that no one method works for everyone. The examples are often very humorous anecdotes about the reactions of toddlers and young children. These anecdotes help reinforce the fact that though some of these methods may sound a little corny to the adult in you, they obviously strike home with the children.
All in all, it is a worthwhile read. I would recommend it to anyone with young children and to adults who feel like they are starting from scratch on their prayer life.