Hope fellow Catholics will enjoy this one ...

[Countingthegreyhairs]

dd (5) when I was putting her to bed last night (saying the Hail Mary)

"Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Play with our scissors,
Now and at the hour of our death
Amen"

Not Catholic, but still enjoy it!

thats heading for the blessed are the cheesemakers life of brian territory

it's lovely you pray with her at night

Ahhhhh! That's brilliant.

I think it's kind of better than the original which is a bit gloomy.

!

DS's version of the Lord's prayer is:

Our Father
Who art in Heaven
Hello

I love these

My mum has a tape of me at 4 saying "Blessed art down and out women" instead of "Blessed art thou amongst women"

my dd when she was 4 said

"Hail Mary
quite contrary
how does your garden grow"

Thanks for all replies... have been chuckling to myself about it on and off today so thought I would share ...

ScaryT & Mary BS - those are fine examples !!

agree Spidermama about gloominess ... although Hail Holy Queen a close runner up .. or am I thinking of the Memorare?

weeping in this veil of tears bit ....

sorry - rushing - bedtime again here (1 hr ahead)

I used to love the Hail Holy Queen. So dark

"To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To thee do we send up our sighs, moaning and weeping in this vale of tears."

Fab.

oh sorry - x posts nametaken - that's inspired!!

thanks Belgo btw - must confess to ulterior motive though - as in "please help juniorCountingthegreyhairs to stop leaving her school shoes in the middle of the dining room table and to eat more fish, Amen" which seems to be more effective than me simply asking!!!

Fallen Madonna, I remember reading (when I was about 9 or so) a Catholic Truth Society pamphlet about St Bernadette and being secretly thrilled/horrified about all her sufferings (bone cancer in the knee as I recall) to the extent that I walked around with a false limp for a while ....

Oh yes. The lives of saints thrilled me when I was young. So dramatic and romantic.

DS is for First Holy Communion this year and he was saying the Lords Prayer, I listened closely to discover that he was saying....

Our Father who aren't in Heaven

I still say Hail Holy Queen (I say mourning, not moaning, but there are a number of diff variations I think) and the Memorare, even though I'm an Anglican now ... we have just acquired a new statue of Mary in our church - Our Lady of Walsingham.

Sorry, was adding in my own childish addition

It is mourning of course.

I'm a dope!

BreeVandeC - I like it

MaryBS - I remember visiting the Walsingham shrine when I was at prep school ... think it's joint C of E and RC isn't it? Also, have distant memory of viewing Oliver Plunkett's fossilised head but that could have been somewhere else .....

Counting

I thought Oliver Plunketts head was in Drogheda some where....did you grow up in Ireland ??

No, in the Midlands BreeVC - and for some reason, I definitely recall standing in a crowd and seeing said relic in the rain at Walsingham in the '70s - perhaps he/it did a "tour" ?

....but having just looked it up in Wikipedia (where there's a lovely mug shot btw ) it would appear that poor Oliver's various body parts have been scattered far and wide ....

They probably reckon him being a saint and all that, that on the last day pulling it all together will be a doddle.

have you heard of the children TV series Pocoyó? The name comes from the way the Spanish series creator's 2 yo child prayed. Instead of saying "como yo" she said pocoyó in "Jesusito de mi vida, eres niño pocoyó" :-)
pocoyo.blogs.com/pocoyo/2006/07/why_pocoyo.html

Counting - yes its joint C of E/RC. There is the RC shrine, which is the Slipper Chapel, and the Anglican shrine which is much bigger (I prefer the RC )