We pray for children who sneak Popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks and can never find their shoes.
   But we also pray for children who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who were born in places we wouldn't be caught dead,who never go to the circus, and live in an X-rated world.
   We pray for children who never get dessert,
who have no blanket to drag behind them,
who watch their parents watch them die,
who don't have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser,
and whose monsters are real.
  We pray for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub,who get visits from the tooth fairy, don't like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church and mosque and temple and scream in the phone whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.
   We also pray for children whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything,
who have never seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, who live and move, but have no being.
   We pray children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who don't get a second chance, for children we smother and for children who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to offer it.
   We pray for all children but especially the children of our school. Help us to cherish them and love them and together to teach them to love and serve you. With gratitude, thankfulness, appreciation, and praise. Amen!
 

2345 East 83rd Street
Cleveland, OH 44104

Phone: 216.881.6250
Fax: 216.881.9030





Questions (Who to Contact?):

Vouchers: Ms. Olgetree
Enrollment/Tours: Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones
Athletics/CYO: Mr. Wuhr

Web: stadalbertschool.net

Map and Directions
 

God of Mercy and Love,  we place our African American Families before You today.

May we be proud of our history and never forget those who paid a great price for our liberation.

 Bless us one by one and keep our hearts and minds fixed on higher ground.
 Help us to live for You and not for ourselves, and may we cherish and proclaim the gift of life.

 Bless our parents, guardians and grandparents, relatives and friends.

 Give us the amazing grace to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Help us, as Your children,to live in such a way that the beauty and greatness of authentic love is reflected in all that we say and do.

 Give a healing anointing to those less fortunate, especially the motherless, the fatherless, the broken, the sick and the lonely.

 Bless our departed family members and friends. May they be led into the light of your dwelling place where we will never grow old, where we will share the fullness of redemption and shout the victory for all eternity.

 This we ask in the precious name of Jesus, our Savior and Blessed Assurance. Amen.
 
Holy Mary, Mother of Our Families, pray for us.