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Getting a group of young people, whether in a classroom or in a youth group, to pray together often poses major problems for teachers and youth leaders. For several years now the Christian Brothers have been working on this problem and have devised this collection of 22 approaches or formats which have been tried and tested in widespread pilot schemes. The forms, each one set out clearly in a step by step way, are: Praying the Our Father; Prayer for Each Other; Dramatization of a Gospel Story; Gospel Story Analysis; Meditation with Slides; Audio-Visual Session; Letter to Jesus; Shared Decade of the Rosary; Praying the Word; Unstructured Shared Prayer; Penitential Service; Meditating on Scripture; Guided Scripture Meditation; Advent Paraliturgy; Liturgical Hour; Psalm Analysis; Shared Prayer and the Reluctant Group; Literary Reflection; Directions for Oriental Prayer; Shared Prayer.