Here are some prayer suggestions you might consider using with your teens during the Advent season. Also, consider having your teen and your family create their own Advent prayers as a part of this liturgical season.
Advent Prayer During Exams
You bring joy and salvation into the world.
Give us the strength to find joy amidst the stress of semester tests
And the wisdom to find truth in our studies.
We ask this in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Advent Prayer for the Poor
You bring glad tidings to the poor.
Create in us this Advent season, the desire to help those in need
That we may recognize in them the face of Christ
We ask this through Christ, our Lord.
Advent Prayer of Reconciliation
You have given us your Son as your loving presence in this world.
Create in our hearts the room for your love to grow.
Forgive our shortcomings and prepare our hearts for your coming.
We ask this in the name Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, one God, forever and ever,
You are the light of the world.
Shine your light on all our choices this day.
Create in us the ability to let your light shine forth for others.
We ask this in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Prayer for the Third Week of Advent
Only you help me not to find my identity amid people’s misfortunes.
You are the one I seek because I no longer trust my own thoughts and reactions.
Your life teaches me to live amid the shackles of people’s sufferin
In these Advent days, I slowly find my heart awake and singing.
Faith creeps out of the cracks of my soul from my uncertainty.
Gratitude lights up the morning inside me and relaxes my silence in my still body.