The Parish Of Leckpatrick, Derry Diocese, Ireland

Back to School – A Student’s Prayer

O Lord, the holidays are over, and I’m going back to school again. I thank you for everyone who has taught me and for all I have learned up until now. Help me to use this term wisely and to use it well. Help me to use to the full the opportunities of learning that will come to me in the future. All through this term help me to be friendly to my fellow pupils and respectful towards my teachers. Help me to work hard and to play fairly, so that I may be a good citizen of my school. I make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.

On Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd March, hundreds of young people from all over the diocese of Derry received Pope John Paul II awards from Abbot Edmund Power OSB who is abbot of St. Paul’s outside the Walls, Rome. To receive the award, it was required they spend a period of time serving their local parish and also taking part in community or charity work. They included four students representing this parish of Leckpatrick – Anne-Marie Devine, Emma Conway, Maeve Duffy and Conor McLaughlin. We congratulate them and thank them for their dedication to their parish and community, and we offer our congratulations to our own Fr. Paul Farren, who, with his excellent team, organised the event in a most professional manner.

St Mary's PS
Cloughcor BT82 0BE
Principal – Mrs Deirdre Gillespie
Telephone – 028 7184 1237

St Joseph's PS
Glenmornan BT82 0ER
Principal – Mr Edward McLaughlin
Telephone – 028 7139 8588