PRAYER OF BLESSING FOR CHILDREN IN YEAR 5 AND THEIR FAMILIES

Children, we give thanks to God for the joy and the special gifts which you bring to your families, schools and our community, and we celebrate the blessing which your families bring to our Parish and to our wider community, and so, with Saint Paul, we pray for you and your families:
Out of his infinite glory, may God our Father give you the power, through his Spirit, for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will, with all the saints, have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth, until knowing the love of Christ which is beyond all knowing, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.
Amen