A Prayer for Students and Teachers For the New School Year

As taken from the St. Christopher Greek Orthodox Church website.

O Lord our God and Creator, Who has honoured mankind with Your own image; Who has taught Your elect, so that most wise are they who obey Your teaching; Who reveals wisdom to us; Who has imparted Your teaching unto Solomon and unto all who have sought Your wisdom: Open the hearts, the minds, and the lips of all of your servants so we may receive the power of Your law, and understand the knowledge which shall be taught to us, to the glory of Your all-holy Name, to the profit and building up of Your holy Church, and that we may comprehend Your good and perfect will. Deliver us from every hostile oppression; preserve us in the Orthodox faith, and in holiness all the days of our lives, that we may increase in wisdom and in the fulfilling of Your commandments, that being thus prepared we may glorify Your all-holy Name and become heirs of Your kingdom. For You are God, mighty in mercy, and gracious in strength, and unto You is due glory: To the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.

Amen.