I’ll start things off - please pray for Eric, who will be a freshman at Harvard this year and for all of his classmates.  Also, please pray for all students who will be beginning college this year - and for their parents as well!

Please pray for Steve, starting next week at LaSalle University.  Special prayers for his companions in the Service Scholarship program and University Ministry.

I ask for prayers for those who will be educating these young minds in the classroom, myself included, that we will inspire them in some way.

Please pray for Tim attending Stetson University in Florida.

Awesome idea! I will definitely spread the word about this prayer effort.

Also, here is a post that might help any new college students heading away to school: http://www.fallibleblogma.com/index.php/15-tips-for-catholics-going-away-to-college/

Lisa I’ve enjoyed your college countdown series. I sent my oldest son Patrick off to college last year. It was hard to let go but I tried to remind myself this is what we are working towards as mothers. We want our children to become independent adults.
At any rate please pray for Patrick as he returns for his second year of college seminary at The Pontifical College Josephinum. Please pray for all seminarians discerning a vocation to the priesthood.

Please pray for my sister Julie as she heads to St. John Fischer College in NY.

Good stuff Lisa. Please pray for all of our new Aggie Catholics. We are expecting another record-breaking attendance this year and our church is already too small. We will have over 5,000 students in Masses starting in a couple of weekends, including over-flow Masses and spilling into our adoration chapel to watch on closed-circuit TV.
http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-succeed-in-college.html

Please pray for my husband, James, who is working on his dissertation for his S.T.D. and will also be teaching at Catholic University of America this year, and also for his students.

Please pray for my son Jack who will be a junior at Vanderbilt in the fall. Please pray for my twin girls who are heading off to separate colleges as freshmen this fall.
Kellyann will be at Miami University of Ohio and Dianne will attend Boston College. My prayer for all college students is that God will guide them in all they do and keep them safe and that they will turn to Mary, their heavenly Mother, in prayer.

Please pray for my son, Matt, who is returning to Texas Tech this year. He will be in an appartment this year, not the dorms.

You have no idea how important and timely this post is!  Please pray for Brian who we dropped off at University of IL-Urbana-Champaign, Newman Hall (awesome reception by Priests, Catholic students living there I might add).  We also have Brother Joseph in Rome who is discerning the Priesthood to keep in your prayers.  I promise to pray for all the post-ers students and families.
God Bless

Please keep those prayer requests and promises coming, and please help us to spread the word.  I want our kids to know that we have an army of Catholic moms praying for them!  Thanks!

For all my former CYO students studying at Benedictine, KU and KState!

Please pray for my daughter, Cate, who is continuing her graduate studies at Catholic and assisting as a teacher, my daughter, Joan, who will be a senior at York College, John, who will be a sophomore at Franciscan(and had a rough first year) and Matthew, who will be a freshman at Penn State York. And pray I find a job as I have been looking to rejoin the work force after20 years( as you can see we need it!). I will pray for all of our students. What a great idea!

I have entrusted my daughter Claire to the Blessed Mother as she starts her freshman year at a state university.  She stopped attending Mass when she turned 18 last spring, and asked that the parish NOT send her name to the diocesan college ministry, as she does not want to be contacted.  Knowing her irritation with the church, and especially with my practice of it, I hesitated to do my normal blessing before leaving her at the dorm.  Surprisingly, she was glad that I brought Holy Water and blessed all the corners of her room, and her, before leaving for my 3 hour drive home.  Can’t figure these kids out!  I recommend bringing Holy Water, (and/or blessed salt, if you are going by plane,) to bless your children’s dorm rooms.

I’ll be going to my second year at UT. Please pray for me!
If you’d like be to pray for any of our brothers and sisters, I’m ready and willing.
Thank you so much!! and God bless!!
-Wayne
(ps this is really cool)

Please pray for Matt who will be returning to San Francisco State this fall as a Sophomore. He is now in an apartment and out of the dorms. Please pray that he will be able to add the additional classes he needs this semester. Budget tightening and furloughs have reduced the number of classes being offered.

Whoa, late to the party…what a lovely idea. My son, Jonathan, is off to Georgia Tech this morning, my daughter, Christy, is in her third year at Middle Georgia, and my daughter Vicky is studying at the Defense Language Institute in CA (additional prayers for her health and recovery from an injury sustained in military training)

Please include our daughter, Kelsey, in your prayers.  She is entering her senior year at D’Youville College in Buffalo.  Immediately upon gradauation, she enters her doctorate program for physical therapy.  God bless all of our students, parents and educators!

Please pray for my brother, Kevin, who will begin his first year at the University of Cincinnati in September, as well as my sister, Casey, who begins her final year at the University of Dayton in a few days.

I am so happy to see the additional acknowledgements for those entering ministry, etc and those that are attending well-publicized University’s…  I am asking for prayers for my adopted daughter who will be returning to MSU at Bozeman, Mt in January “11”....she has had a difficult time in her junior year partially because her mother was an alcoholic during her pregnancy with Allie….however, she is a miracle because she made it this far…..  My prayers will be for those that work so hard in the face of life’s challenges and find University to be a little more challenging that most students… God is proud of you Allie… Blessings….

Please pray for my nieces,  C. and E. who will be studying in St. Louis, and K. who will be studying in Fredericksburg.  Thank you!

Following a freshman year that was one of the most blessed years of her life, our daughter Allie will soon be making the trek back to Steubenville, Ohio for Year 2 at Franciscan. Please pray for her and for all students, studying both here and abroad this year.

Please pray for my daughter, E, who will be returning to Princeton University next month. Last year was a very difficult adjustment for her; pray that she will do better this time around. Please also pray for a young man from our parish, N, who is entering his freshman year at Harvard.  And prayers for my second daughter, S, as she applies to colleges this year.  She really wants to go to Thomas Aquinas College in California, but we live on the east coast, and it’s so far!!!!

Please pray for our daughter, Liz, who will be a freshman at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.  She is undecided on a major but will be minoring in Catholic Studies.  Also please pray for two of her friends, Nick and John, who left today for NET Ministries.

Please pray for Sarah who just left for Adelphi Univ. I pray for all these students that their faith will stay strong and they will be wrapped in God’s mantel.

Please pray for my daughter Lillian who just today flew all the way from our home here in Seattle to attend Belmont Abbey in North Carolina! It is along way from home but we expect and pray for great things for her at Belmont.

Please pray for my son R.J. who will be attending Grand Valley State University in Allendale/Grand Rapids, MI.  Pray that he will find a community of believers on campus or in the area in which he will bond with in the Spirit and worship with in The Spirit and in Truth.

Please add Andrew to your prayers. He will begin his college years at Knox College this fall.

Prayers for Brendan, living at home and attending community college, for a better 2nd year (he has always struggled with school) and for Maura, who is beginning freshman year at USC - Columbia and says she no longer believes -heartbreaking.

Please pray for my daughter, Cecilia, who will be starting her freshman year at George Washington University in DC.

Three of my own are heading off: Chris to Miami of Ohio, Stephanie at Ashland and Brian at Otterbein. Please pray for them and the three nephews who are also heading off!