These were composed and read by very young children of the Children’s Liturgy group.
Reader	Dear Lord Thank you for all the food you give to us. Bless our farmers who work hard to grow our food. Help us to remember anyone who is hungry. Our world has enough food for everyone.
	Lord hear us, …
Reader	Dear Lord Thank you for all our weather. We need both rain and sun to grow all our food and flowers. Let us remember the rainbow as your beautiful sign of the world living at peace with itself.
	Lord hear us.
Reader	Dear Lord Thank you for giving us all the wonderful animals that live on the earth. Bless our vets who care for them.
	Lord hear us.
Reader	Dear Lord This is God's world.Look around at it's beauty. Help us to love and protect God's precious gift to us.
	Lord hear us.
Helper	Holy Mary As you stood by your dying son on the cross, hear our prayers and raise the spirits of all who know and revere you.  And so we pray ……
	Hail Mary, etc.
Helper	We will now say the LiveSimply prayer which you will find on the back page of Briefly.
	Helper – there is a copy on the back of this sheet for you.
Fr Bryan	Father of Creation, we see a world divided between those who live well and those barely able to live.  We pray for the courage to change the ways in which we live, in order to become good stewards of creation and bring fairness for all.  Through Christ our Lord…etc