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I saw Suzanne's mention of the Child's Treasury of Daily Prayers on this thread and I couldn't resist starting a new thread!
This small book is SO WONDERFUL!!!! I had been looking to add a little more to our daily prayer routine, but I'd forget...and then wing it...and it wasn't consistent and I felt like I wasn't doing a very good job. This small booklet is THE ANSWER for me!!
It is small, comb bound, with many traditional holy card images printed throughout. The format is as follows:
** Each month is listed with a dedication for that month. So for example, November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. There are also special prayers listed for Advent, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.
** Following that, each day of the week (Monday-Friday) contains a very nice compilation of prayers for the day. Here is Monday's:- Kneel - Read the Prayer for the Month
- Prayer to the Holy Ghost
- Morning Offering
- Recite the Hail Mary
- Act of Adoration and Thanksgiving
- Act of Faith
- Act of Hope
- Act of Love
- Act of Contrition
- Prayer for help today
- Sit - Listen to a short reading on today's saint (provided by your family)
- Hear the reading on today's gospel
- Kneel for Invocations
- Act of Spiritual Communion
- Recite the Hail Mary
- Ejaculations to the Saints
- Final prayers -- May the Divine Assistance always remain with us. And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
** Each day's compilation of prayers is a little different.
This seems like a lot, and it is substantial, but the prayers are short. You could also abbreviate certain sections, but really the entire thing is so nice and I love that it prompts a place to read the gospel reading of the day as well as the saint's reading for the day. I wanted to buy a booklet for each of the children, but apparently I bought the last one!  However, they are reprinting, and the lady at Fraternity publishing said she'd email me when more were available. This is definitely something that would be good for each reading age child to have. I intend to remove the comb binding, laminate all the pages, and then have it spiral bound (just a personal pref, but I detest comb binding).
This little prayer book is beautiful and reverent and though I just received mine, I hope it will be a huge help to this busy mom for morning prayers here.
A few other books we enjoy using with our morning prayers and devotions:
** Saints, A Year in Faith and Art
** A Year With the Saints
** Helpful background for me: The Church's Year of Grace by Pius Parsch
** Charlotte's great Catholic coloring pages
** Butler's Lives of the Saints
** St. Joseph's Picture Book of Saints
** The Father Daniel Lord Miniature Stories of the Saints set of 4 books
Please share how you incorporate morning prayers and devotions into your daily routine with the small children and any prayer books you use as helps!
There, Suzanne...I started the gush...your turn!!! 
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Mackfam wrote:
| I wanted to buy a booklet for each of the children, but apparently I bought the last one! However, they are reprinting, and the lady at Fraternity publishing said she'd email me when more were available. This is definitely something that would be good for each reading age child to have. I intend to remove the comb binding, laminate all the pages, and then have it spiral bound (just a personal pref, but I detest comb binding). |
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Thanks a lot, Jen! This does look great, but I'm impatiently waiting new stock. 
Do you do the laminating yourself or where do you do the laminating and rebinding?
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As Suzanne mentioned in the thread to which Jennifer linked, we use the Child's Treasury of Daily Prayers. We have done so for over a year now and really like it. It has truly enriched our days. We continued to use it throughout the summer last year and will do the same this year.
We read about the saint of the day from Saints for Young Readers for Every Day, Fr. Lord's miniature saint books, or one of our daily missals. We also read the Gospel reading for the day from one of our daily missals.
As I partially mentioned in another thread, I begin my morning with personal prayer and by reading from A Year with the Saints.
Thank you for starting the gush, Jennifer! Thank you for mentioning the Child's Treasury of Prayers again, Suzanne! I am happy to read that others like it, too!
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Now I want one, too! Any idea how long until they are back in stock?
Wait, it says they are in stock on the website. 
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*Lindsey* wrote:
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I'm not sure, Lindsey. They are printed by a small family business - Joe Bourbeau Press. I will definitely report back as soon as they email me that stock is in!!
This link offers you a bit more of a visual so you can see what to expect in this book. I like looking at things I might be considering.
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I laminate myself. For this book, I will probably check Staples to see how much they will charge for spiral binding since I think that would be a more durable solution.
Or...I might do what I usually do...which is just use these 1/2 inch booklet rings. They have worked very well for us on a number of projects (btw, there are a million variations on the bookbinder ring - Acco brand makes a metal one we use for heftier books and is readily available at office supply store in several sizes - not very expensive). I am finding more and more of a need and preference to spiral bind things here. For this reason, I'm researching affordable spiral binding materials to do this at home.
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I bookmarked the link to that little book when it was first mentioned here and have been eyeing it. With just my little ones, we have been doing our own thing for now, but I would love to get my hands on this for the near future. I'll be awaiting the reprint as well.
For now, our morning prayers look like this:
:: Morning Offering (from Fr. Lasance's Catholic Girl's Guide: "My God Thy goodness...")
:: Our Father
:: Hail Mary for Daddy
:: Day-of-the-week prayer (a prayer related to the traditional devotion for the day of the week--for example, on Tuesdays, the day of the Holy Angels, we do the Angel of God or the St. Michael prayer)
:: Reading for the saint/feast of the day (from Fr. Lord, Fr. Lovasik or, in a pinch, Holy Spirit Interactive)
:: Litany of the saints (we include our patrons and then saints of the kids' choosing)
:: Prayer to all saints (the Post-Communion Prayer from the Feast of All Saints--they learned this one back in November and we all love it)
:: Marian antiphon for the season sung in chant (my 1yo's favorite part!)
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After this thread last summer: What do morning prayers look like? , I was very inspired! I loved that thread!
This year, we've been doing our morning prayers right after we clean up breakfast, around the kid's small table in the kitchen.
I absolutely LOVE the Child's Treasury of Daily Prayers that Jen linked above, and now that the girls are getting older, maybe we'd switch to that sometimes and still use the "little ones prayer" on alternating days?? I just LOVE the format of the Treasury, the selection of prayers, and the variety and focus on the months and days of the week. They will learn so many beautiful prayers! And, the artwork selection is so nice.
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And, yes....like Jen said, the only negative about the Treasury book, is it's lack of durability. That booklet would last 2 weeks in a house full of small/young ones, so it def. needs something...laminating, binding, cover, folder, etc....SOMETHING!
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| And, yes....like Jen said, the only negative about the Treasury book, is it's lack of durability. That booklet would last 2 weeks in a house full of small/young ones, so it def. needs something...laminating, binding, cover, folder, etc....SOMETHING! |
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Ours has lasted over a year and we have a few little ones (one who likes to rip books). We keep it in our prayer area on a shelf, take it out when it is time to pray, and then put it back on the shelf. It still looks almost new.
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I bought one yesterday and received an email today:
The item you ordered Child's Treasury of Daily Prayers is on backorder. We expect it by the end of next week and will process and ship your order as soon as we can. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
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Thank you, Paula!
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