This beautifully illustrated hardcover edition of Mother Mary Loyola's classic 1911 title is the perfect gift for a First Communicant—and a little treasury of Catholic prayer and practice that a child can continue to use long afterward.
This little 4" × 6" pocket gem contains far more than a collection of daily prayers. Its simple Morning and Night Prayers distill elements of the Church's traditional daily prayer into a form little children can make their own, while two different sets of meditations for the Mass help them understand and participate in the Holy Sacrifice, accompanied by illustrations showing what the priest is doing at each stage. However, she doesn't teach the child merely to watch the priest… She tells the child that Jesus wants his prayers joined to His.
Mother Loyola's excellent examination of conscience is geared especially toward children, and sections on Confession, Holy Communion, Benediction, serving Mass, and the everyday practice of virtue make this a remarkably complete companion for a young Catholic's spiritual life.
Add Mother Loyola's warm, childlike simplicity, devotional stories that foster loving obedience, gorgeous full-color illustrations, and a beautifully produced hardcover with printed endsheets, and you'll be wishing you had such a book as a child!
Please note: The Little Children's Prayer Book was originally published in 1911, and we have preserved Mother Loyola's text, rather than adapting it to subsequent liturgical changes. Thus, the portions dealing with the Mass correspond most closely to the Traditional Latin Mass, and the illustrations depict the priest celebrating ad orientem. Mother Loyola does not, however, simply reproduce the prayers of the Missal; much of her instruction explains the meaning of the Mass and gives children their own prayers and meditations for its various parts. Consequently, this book can be used just as fruitfully by children attending the Ordinary Form.
4.5" x 6.25" hardcover 144 pages
Read more about the story behind how we came to republish this book on our blog!
Customer Reviews
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Excellent source of beautiful and prayerful formation
This gem of a prayer book is incredibly beautiful- from the art pieces to poems to prayers, it fosters prayerful attentiveness to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. The section the the Sacrmament of Confession help adults and children alike understand the heart of God’s mercy in the Sacrament.
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Wonderful Children's Missal and Prayerbook
This is one of the best prayer books I have found. It includes a children's missal, an excellent examination of conscience and how to go to confession, communion prayers, benediction prayers, and a few meditations. The book is bound beautifully and durable. It is also filled with lovely images. I highly recommend it.
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Little Children's Prayer Book
Excellent text and illustrations; elevates mind and heart; certainly avoiding mediocrity, "dumbing down" which, unfortunately, has been so prevalent.
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Lovely!
Beautiful images accompany gentle text to help prepare for Holy Mass and examine the conscience for Confession. Thank you Mother Mary Loyola and Lisa Bergman for another gem. God bless you!
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Love it! I gave them
Love it! I gave them as 1st communion gifts and the children are really enjoying them!
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Excellent, EXCELLENT Prayer Book!
I love this sweet little prayer book, but don't let the cute cover fool you. This little book is packed full of theological goodness. Initially I purchased it for my 5 and 6 year-olds, thinking it might help them to follow along with the mass. After the books arrived, and I had a chance to flip through them, I realized that they would be much better suited to my almost-9 and 10 year-olds. While the beautiful traditional illustrations would have kept the littler children busily flipping through the pages during mass, the thoughtful prayers and reflections would have been wasted on them (which would typically be fine with me in any other prayer book, but I couldn't let the words of instruction in this book go unread and unappreciated. They are that good!) The profound but simple explanation and instruction on Confession alone (all by itself, without even taking the other sections of the book into consideration, and they are equally lovely!) just begged to be read by the older children, who are in need of this kind of thoughtful reflection outside of mass. The meditations are (again) simple but unlike anything I've put my hands on yet. When reading the above-mentioned section on Confession out loud to my 8 year-old, I couldn't help but choke back tears over the reflections... and the ART! (that goes with the lesson)... so helpful for that in-between stage when they're old enough to commit sin but the concept of the loss of one's soul is still so abstract... The artwork will "connect the dots" so to speak, showing examples of what we desire (to be embraced by Our Lord in heaven) and what we do not (to realize too-late that hell is real). I can't recommend this book enough.
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A beautiful book. All of your books are so wonderful, we appreciate your work. Ave Maria, Kathy for HFB
