Pray With Me: Seven Simple Ways to Pray With Your Children - Softcover

Urbanski, Grace Mazza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594715742 ISBN 13: 9781594715747

Publisher: Ave Maria Pr, 2015

Synopsis

Grace Mazza Urbanski, former director of Children's Ministry for the Apostleship of Prayer (now the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network), gives parents practical advice on how to help children find opportunities to pray throughout the day. Using warmth, humor, and passion, Urbanski draws on personal experience to show how families are brought closer together through deeper contact with God.

There are opportunities for children to pray everywhere--when a friend gets hurt on the playground, before a test in the classroom, and even 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.

About this title

About the Author

Grace Mazza Urbanski teaches high school English at Brookfield Academy in Wisconsin and previously served as national director of children’s ministry with the Apostleship of Prayer (now the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network). She continues to share her insights on prayer with parents, teachers, and children as a regular contributor to Catechist magazine and keynote speaker and workshop designer for events throughout the United States.

Urbanski and her husband, David, received the 2017 Archdiocese of Milwaukee Vatican II Award for their service to families. She also received an alumna of the year award from the Marquette University Denihy Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu in 2018. She earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Marquette University, where she was formerly a lecturer in the English department. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of several other honors organizations. Urbanski is also a professional vocalist and voice teacher. She is an active member of her parish, St. Mary’s Visitation, where she has served on the pastoral council and chaired the Catholic Formation Committee.

The Urbanskis live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Review

"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, S.J., former national director of the Apostleship of Prayer (now the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)

About this edition

• Publisher: Ave Maria Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1594715742
• ISBN 13: 9781594715747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 139