
5 Replies to Questions About Catholic (and Biblical) Prayer
‘Prayer is Christian insofar as it is communion with Christ and extends throughout the Church, which is his Body. Its dimensions are those of Christ's love.’ (CCC 2565)
‘Prayer is Christian insofar as it is communion with Christ and extends throughout the Church, which is his Body. Its dimensions are those of Christ's love.’ (CCC 2565)
COMMENTARY: The only way to give our spouse and children the best — which is Jesus himself loving them through us — is to deepen our interior life through the commitment to daily prayer.
‘The Holy Spirit who teaches the Church and recalls to her all that Jesus said also instructs her in the life of prayer, inspiring new expressions of the same basic forms of prayer: blessing, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise.’ (CCC 2644)
‘We need time dedicated to God,’ the Holy Father said Oct. 16, when ‘we open our hearts to him so that he can daily pour out on us love, peace, joy, strength, hope, thus nourishing our faith.’
Meeting the Lord in prayer should produce joy, not fear or sadness, which are signs of distance from him.
‘Blessed is the man who goes to sleep under the protection of that outpost, the outpost of those three or four words.’ —Charles Peguy
COMMENTARY: Liturgical Christianity has given me everything my heart had longed for in prayer.
User’s Guide to Sunday, July 17
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