From the mouths -- and pens -- of children come prayers for vocations

Published: 2003-11-07

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Children are helping the Diocese of Nashville's efforts to promote vocations. Father Jim Armour, diocesan director of vocation promotion, asked the principals at all the Catholic schools and the directors of religious education at each parish to have students in grades 3 through 8 compose a prayer for vocations and draw a picture that could be used on prayer cards. "We came up with an idea: Wouldn't it be great for the kids to have a prayer for vocations -- at their level -- and for them to perhaps compose it," Father Armour told the Tennessee Register, Nashville's diocesan newspaper. The contest was divided into two age categories, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8, and a prayer and drawing were selected from each age group. The winning prayers were composed by Holly Harrison, a fifth-grade student at St. Henry School in Nashville, and Rebecca Cypcar, a sixth-grade student at St. Andrew Church in Sparta. The winning drawings were by Jessylea Richards, a fourth-grade student at St. Henry School, and Bonnie Hardie, a sixth-grader at St. Ann School in Nashville.

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