This was a short prayer service created for the school commemorating Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child, during the Bicentennial Year. It was led by Grade 8.

1. Celebrating Cornelia’s Birthday

2. † Sign of the Cross Sung refrain: Call upon the Lord and he will hear you. (All repeat) Leader: Today we gather to give thanks and praise for the gift of Cornelia Connelly’s life for the good of the Church and for the education of children. All: May we try each and every day to follow, as she did, the example of Jesus.

4. Leader : Cornelia Connelly, servant of God, you were given the grace to listen to God in prayer. You learned, even as a young person, to trust in God’s care for you and for those you loved. All: Help us, dear Lord, to place all of our trust in you.

6. Leader: We all have gifts and talents, and we also have parts of ourselves that need “work.” Cornelia teaches us that if we try day by day… to desire what God desires, and to love what God loves, God will indeed bless us and do great things for us. All: We are God’s “Work of Art.” Help us, Lord, to grow and become all you desire us to be.