School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)

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1. Local Prayers

   

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   When waking in the morning I offer up this prayer:

   Thanks be to thee for bring me safe over the night.

   It is always the custom when starting work to bless yourself.
   When going on a journey I usally say:

   In the name of God I'll start out;
   and I say a Hail Mary that nothing will happen me on my way.

   When going into the church I say:

   Ó Jesús in the blessed scrament help me.

   When going into bed I say

   I must die, I do not know, how, where, or when
   But if I die in mortal sin
   I am lost for ever,

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. prayers (~3,266)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Lynch

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilbeg Lower, Co. Meath