This prayer occured during days of faculty meetings.

1. Rosemont School of the Holy Child Opening Faculty Days 2009 “ Nurturing Excellence in a Joyful Catholic Community”

3. The heavens declare the glory of God!

4. And all the earth proclaims your greatness!

6. All: We praise you, O God!

7. All: Let all the people praise you!

8. We praise and thank you for choosing men and women in every age, and everywhere to make your goodness known!

9. We thank you for Cornelia Connelly, for her spirituality and for her educational vision: from “Cornelia the Educator,” Yes, Lord, Always Yes, 109 -111.

10. Holy Child Network of Schools

11. All: Here in this place we celebrate this heritage!

12. We thank you for our mission: to help others to believe and to understand that God has entered our world…

13. … and we can rejoice in God’s presence among us!

14. All: As we begin again, strengthen us for the work you entrust to us this year. May nothing cloud our vision. Help us to “nurture excellence in a joyful Catholic community.”

15. This day, August 31, let us take to heart the words of Cornelia Connelly: “ Continue to praise, love and thank God, to offer yourself to Him.”

16. All: Bless us, Lord, and bless the children you entrust to our care. Sung Refrain: All:

17. For these things we pray and have great confidence in God: All: Glory be to God whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine! Closing Hymn Be Exalted, O God