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501 4, 1, 3, 2712 | Contemplative prayer is the prayer of the child of God, of
502 4, 1, 3, 2712 | from God. Contemplative prayer is the poor and humble surrender
503 4, 1, 3, 2713 | 2713 Contemplative prayer is the simplest expression
504 4, 1, 3, 2713 | expression of the mystery of prayer. It is a gift, a grace;
505 4, 1, 3, 2713 | and poverty. Contemplative prayer is a covenant relationship
506 4, 1, 3, 2713 | our hearts.9 Contemplative prayer is a communion in which
507 4, 1, 3, 2714 | 2714 Contemplative prayer is also the pre-eminently
508 4, 1, 3, 2714 | pre-eminently intense time of prayer. In it the Father strengthens
509 4, 1, 3, 2715 | his holy cure about his prayer before the tabernacle. This
510 4, 1, 3, 2716 | 2716 Contemplative prayer is hearing the Word of God.
511 4, 1, 3, 2717 | 2717 Contemplative prayer is silence, the "symbol
512 4, 1, 3, 2717 | Words in this kind of prayer are not speeches; they are
513 4, 1, 3, 2717 | enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus.~
514 4, 1, 3, 2718 | 2718 Contemplative prayer is a union with the prayer
515 4, 1, 3, 2718 | prayer is a union with the prayer of Christ insofar as it
516 4, 1, 3, 2718 | come alive in contemplative prayer so that our charity will
517 4, 1, 3, 2719 | 2719 Contemplative prayer is a communion of love bearing
518 4, 1, 3, 2719 | weak") brings to life in prayer. We must be willing to "
519 4, 1, 3, 2720 | the faithful to regular prayer: daily prayers, the Liturgy
520 4, 1, 3, 2721 | expressions of the life of prayer: vocal prayer, meditation,
521 4, 1, 3, 2721 | the life of prayer: vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplative
522 4, 1, 3, 2721 | meditation, and contemplative prayer. They have in common the
523 4, 1, 3, 2722 | 2722 Vocal prayer, founded on the union of
524 4, 1, 3, 2722 | the body with the interior prayer of the heart, following
525 4, 1, 3, 2724 | 2724 Contemplative prayer is the simple expression
526 4, 1, 3, 2724 | expression of the mystery of prayer. It is a gaze of faith fixed
527 4, 1, 3, 2724 | achieves real union with the prayer of Christ to the extent
528 4, 1, 3 | Article 2~THE BATTLE OF PRAYER~
529 4, 1, 3, 2725 | 2725 Prayer is both a gift of grace
530 4, 1, 3, 2725 | effort. the great figures of prayer of the Old Covenant before
531 4, 1, 3, 2725 | himself, all teach us this: prayer is a battle. Against whom?
532 4, 1, 3, 2725 | can to turn man away from prayer, away from union with God.
533 4, 1, 3, 2725 | inseparable from the battle of prayer.~
534 4, 1, 3 | I. Objections to Prayer~
535 4, 1, 3, 2726 | 2726 In the battle of prayer, we must face in ourselves
536 4, 1, 3, 2726 | us erroneous notions of prayer. Some people view prayer
537 4, 1, 3, 2726 | prayer. Some people view prayer as a simple psychological
538 4, 1, 3, 2726 | void. Still others reduce prayer to ritual words and postures.
539 4, 1, 3, 2726 | Christians unconsciously regard prayer as an occupation that is
540 4, 1, 3, 2726 | Those who seek God by prayer are quickly discouraged
541 4, 1, 3, 2726 | because they do not know that prayer comes also from the Holy
542 4, 1, 3, 2727 | reason and science; yet prayer is a mystery that overflows
543 4, 1, 3, 2727 | production and profit; thus prayer, being unproductive, is
544 4, 1, 3, 2727 | and the beautiful; whereas prayer, the "love of beauty" (philokalia),
545 4, 1, 3, 2727 | true God. Finally, some see prayer as a flight from the world
546 4, 1, 3, 2727 | but in fact, Christian prayer is neither an escape from
547 4, 1, 3, 2728 | experience as failure in prayer: discouragement during periods
548 4, 1, 3, 2728 | resistance to the idea that prayer is a free and unmerited
549 4, 1, 3 | Heart~Facing difficulties in prayer~
550 4, 1, 3, 2729 | The habitual difficulty in prayer is distraction. It can affect
551 4, 1, 3, 2729 | and their meaning in vocal prayer; it can concern, more profoundly,
552 4, 1, 3, 2729 | we are praying, in vocal prayer (liturgical or personal),
553 4, 1, 3, 2729 | meditation, and contemplative prayer. To set about hunting down
554 4, 1, 3, 2731 | belongs to contemplative prayer when the heart is separated
555 4, 1, 3, 2731 | Facing temptations in prayer~
556 4, 1, 3, 2734 | difficulty concerns the prayer of petition, for oneself
557 4, 1, 3, 2734 | not been heard? How is our prayer heard, how is it "efficacious"? ~
558 4, 1, 3, 2735 | concerned whether or not our prayer is acceptable to him. On
559 4, 1, 3, 2735 | of God that motivates our prayer: an instrument to be used?
560 4, 1, 3, 2737 | while you cling to him in prayer.29~God wills that our desire
561 4, 1, 3, 2737 | desire should be exercised in prayer, that we may be able to
562 4, 1, 3, 2737 | prepared to give.30~How is our prayer efficacious?~
563 4, 1, 3, 2738 | 2738 The revelation of prayer in the economy of salvation
564 4, 1, 3, 2738 | Resurrection of his Son. Christian prayer is cooperation with his
565 4, 1, 3, 2739 | is bold, founded on the prayer of the Spirit in us and
566 4, 1, 3, 2740 | 2740 The prayer of Jesus makes Christian
567 4, 1, 3, 2740 | of Jesus makes Christian prayer an efficacious petition.
568 4, 1, 3, 2740 | the Father, how could the prayer of the children of adoption
569 4, 1, 3, 2741 | with the Father.32 If our prayer is resolutely united with
570 4, 1, 3, 2742 | in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that
571 4, 1, 3, 2742 | laziness, the battle of prayer is that of humble, trusting,
572 4, 1, 3, 2742 | life-giving facts of faith about prayer.~
573 4, 1, 3, 2743 | possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public
574 4, 1, 3, 2744 | 2744 Prayer is a vital necessity. Proof
575 4, 1, 3, 2744 | him?~Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible
576 4, 1, 3, 2745 | 2745 Prayer and Christian life are inseparable,
577 4, 1, 3, 2745 | without ceasing" who unites prayer to works and good works
578 4, 1, 3, 2745 | works and good works to prayer. Only in this way can we
579 4, 1, 3 | Article 3~THE PRAYER OF THE HOUR OF JESUS~
580 4, 1, 3, 2746 | prayed to the Father.43 His prayer, the longest transmitted
581 4, 1, 3, 2746 | death and Resurrection. the prayer of the Hour of Jesus always
582 4, 1, 3, 2747 | Tradition rightly calls this prayer the "priestly" prayer of
583 4, 1, 3, 2747 | this prayer the "priestly" prayer of Jesus. It is the prayer
584 4, 1, 3, 2747 | prayer of Jesus. It is the prayer of our high priest, inseparable
585 4, 1, 3, 2748 | Paschal and sacrificial prayer, everything is recapitulated
586 4, 1, 3, 2748 | humiliation and glory. It is the prayer of unity.~
587 4, 1, 3, 2749 | the Father completely; his prayer, like his sacrifice, extends
588 4, 1, 3, 2749 | until the end of time. the prayer of this hour fills the end-times
589 4, 1, 3, 2749 | and the God who hears our prayer.~
590 4, 1, 3, 2750 | accept, from within, the prayer he teaches us: "Our Father!"
591 4, 1, 3, 2750 | Our Father!" His priestly prayer fulfills, from within, the
592 4, 1, 3, 2750 | petitions of the Lord's Prayer: concern for the Father'
593 4, 1, 3, 2751 | 2751 Finally, in this prayer Jesus reveals and gives
594 4, 1, 3, 2751 | very mystery of the life of prayer.~
595 4, 1, 3, 2752 | 2752 Prayer presupposes an effort, a
596 4, 1, 3, 2752 | the Tempter. the battle of prayer is inseparable from the
597 4, 1, 3, 2753 | 2753 In the battle of prayer we must confront erroneous
598 4, 1, 3, 2753 | erroneous conceptions of prayer, various currents of thought,
599 4, 1, 3, 2753 | even the possibility of prayer.~
600 4, 1, 3, 2754 | difficulties in the practice of prayer are distraction and dryness.
601 4, 1, 3, 2755 | frequent temptations threaten prayer: lack of faith and acedia -
602 4, 1, 3, 2756 | test when we feel that our prayer is not always heard. the
603 4, 1, 3, 2756 | about the conformity of our prayer to the desire of the Spirit.~
604 4, 1, 3, 2757 | even a vital necessity. Prayer and Christian life are inseparable.~
605 4, 1, 3, 2758 | 2758 The prayer of the hour of Jesus, rightly
606 4, 1, 3, 2758 | rightly called the "priestly prayer" (cf Jn 17), sums up the
607 4, 2 | SECTION TWO~THE LORD'S PRAYER~I. "OUR FATHER!"~
608 4, 2, 0, 2759 | the fundamental Christian prayer. St. Luke presents a brief
609 4, 2, 0, 2760 | usage concluded the Lord's Prayer with a doxology. In the
610 4, 2, 0, 2760 | to our day in ecumenical prayer.5 ~The Byzantine tradition
611 4, 2, 0, 2760(6) | Embolism after the Lord's Prayer.~
612 4, 2, 0, 2761 | 2761 The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of
613 4, 2, 0, 2761 | handing over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and
614 4, 2, 0, 2761 | regular and appropriate prayer [the Lord's Prayer] is said
615 4, 2, 0, 2761 | appropriate prayer [the Lord's Prayer] is said first, as the foundation
616 4, 2, 0, 2762 | principal food of Christian prayer and flow together in the
617 4, 2, 0, 2762 | and included in the Lord's Prayer.9~
618 4, 2, 0, 2763 | Sermon on the Mount;11 The prayer to our Father is at the
619 4, 2, 0, 2763 | illuminated:~The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers....
620 4, 2, 0, 2763 | should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask
621 4, 2, 0, 2764 | life, the Our Father is a prayer; but in both the one and
622 4, 2, 0, 2764 | us to ask for it by our prayer. the rightness of our life
623 4, 2, 0, 2764 | on the rightness of our prayer.~
624 4, 2, 0 | II. The Lord's Prayer~
625 4, 2, 0, 2765 | traditional expression "the Lord's Prayer" - oratio Dominica - means
626 4, 2, 0, 2765 | Dominica - means that the prayer to our Father is taught
627 4, 2, 0, 2765 | us by the Lord Jesus. the prayer that comes to us from Jesus
628 4, 2, 0, 2765 | hand, in the words of this prayer the only Son gives us the
629 4, 2, 0, 2765 | he is the master of our prayer. On the other, as Word incarnate,
630 4, 2, 0, 2765 | he is the model of our prayer.~
631 4, 2, 0, 2766 | mechanically.14 As in every vocal prayer, it is through the Word
632 4, 2, 0, 2766 | the words of our filial prayer; at the same time he gives
633 4, 2, 0, 2766 | possibility of our filial prayer is that the Father "sent
634 4, 2, 0, 2766 | Abba! Father!'"16 Since our prayer sets forth our desires before
635 4, 2, 0, 2766 | the will of God."17 The prayer to Our Father is inserted
636 4, 2, 0 | III. The Prayer of the Church~
637 4, 2, 0, 2767 | communities prayed the Lord's Prayer three times a day,18 in
638 4, 2, 0, 2768 | apostolic tradition, the Lord's Prayer is essentially rooted in
639 4, 2, 0, 2768 | essentially rooted in liturgical prayer:~[The Lord] teaches us to
640 4, 2, 0, 2768 | Lord] teaches us to make prayer in common for all our brethren.
641 4, 2, 0, 2768 | liturgical traditions, the Lord's Prayer is an integral part of the
642 4, 2, 0, 2769 | traditio) of the Lord's Prayer signifies new birth into
643 4, 2, 0, 2769 | divine life. Since Christian prayer is our speaking to God with
644 4, 2, 0, 2769 | Church prays the Lord's Prayer, it is always the people
645 4, 2, 0, 2770 | Eucharistic liturgy the Lord's Prayer appears as the prayer of
646 4, 2, 0, 2770 | s Prayer appears as the prayer of the whole Church and
647 4, 2, 0, 2770 | anaphora (the Eucharistic prayer) and the communion, the
648 4, 2, 0, 2770 | the communion, the Lord's Prayer sums up on the one hand
649 4, 2, 0, 2771 | the Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer also reveals the eschatological
650 4, 2, 0, 2771 | petitions. It is the proper prayer of "the end-time," the time
651 4, 2, 0, 2772 | Eucharist and the Lord's Prayer look eagerly for the Lord'
652 4, 2, 0, 2773 | the fundamental Christian prayer, the Our Father.~
653 4, 2, 0, 2774 | 2774 "The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of
654 4, 2, 0, 2775 | It is called "the Lord's Prayer" because it comes to us
655 4, 2, 0, 2775 | master and model of our prayer.~
656 4, 2, 0, 2776 | 2776 The Lord's Prayer is the quintessential prayer
657 4, 2, 0, 2776 | Prayer is the quintessential prayer of the Church. It is an
658 4, 2, 0, 2778 | introduces us to the Lord's Prayer is expressed in the liturgies
659 4, 2, 0, 2779 | exclamation of the Lord's Prayer, we must humbly cleanse
660 4, 2, 0, 2783 | 2783 Thus the Lord's Prayer reveals us to ourselves
661 4, 2, 0, 2785 | Father is revealed.42~[The prayer is accomplished] by the
662 4, 2, 0, 2788 | 2788 Since the Lord's Prayer is that of his people in
663 4, 2, 0, 2791 | divisions among Christians, this prayer to "our" Father remains
664 4, 2, 0, 2791 | ought to join in Jesus' prayer for the unity of his disciples.50~
665 4, 2, 0, 2792 | beginning of the Lord's Prayer, like the "us" of the last
666 4, 2, 0, 2793 | bounds, neither should our prayer.52 Praying "our" Father
667 4, 2, 0, 2793 | the great practitioners of prayer; it should extend our prayer
668 4, 2, 0, 2793 | prayer; it should extend our prayer to the full breadth of love
669 4, 2, 0, 2799 | 2799 The Lord's Prayer brings us into communion
670 4, 2, 0, 2805 | of life - that battle of prayer.~
671 4, 2, 0, 2812 | the heart of his priestly prayer: "Holy Father . . . for
672 4, 2, 0, 2814 | inseparably on our life and our prayer:~We ask God to hallow his
673 4, 2, 0, 2815 | it is fulfilled by the prayer of Christ. Prayer to our
674 4, 2, 0, 2815 | by the prayer of Christ. Prayer to our Father is our prayer,
675 4, 2, 0, 2815 | Prayer to our Father is our prayer, if it is prayed in the
676 4, 2, 0, 2815 | Jesus.84 In his priestly prayer, Jesus asks: "Holy Father,
677 4, 2, 0, 2818 | 2818 In the Lord's Prayer, "thy kingdom come" refers
678 4, 2, 0, 2818(89) | Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118.~
679 4, 2, 0, 2821 | taken up and granted in the prayer of Jesus which is present
680 4, 2, 0, 2824 | pleasing to him."100 In the prayer of his agony, he consents
681 4, 2, 0, 2826 | 2826 By prayer we can discern "what is
682 4, 2, 0, 2827 | the power of the Church's prayer in the name of her Lord,
683 4, 2, 0, 2827 | all in the Eucharist. Her prayer is also a communion of intercession
684 4, 2, 0, 2831 | This petition of the Lord's Prayer cannot be isolated from
685 4, 2, 0, 2838 | petitions of the Lord's Prayer, since Christ's sacrifice
686 4, 2, 0, 2844 | 2844 Christian prayer extends to the forgiveness
687 4, 2, 0, 2844 | high-point of Christian prayer; only hearts attuned to
688 4, 2, 0, 2844 | can receive the gift of prayer. Forgiveness also bears
689 4, 2, 0, 2845 | ship. It is lived out in prayer, above all in the Eucharist.148~
690 4, 2, 0, 2849 | become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that
691 4, 2, 0, 2849 | through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the
692 4, 2, 0, 2850 | also included in Jesus' prayer: "I am not asking you to
693 4, 2, 0, 2850 | human family. the Lord's Prayer continually opens us to
694 4, 2, 0, 2852(166)| Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 125.~
695 4, 2, 0, 2854(175)| Embolism after the Lord's Prayer, 126: Libera nos,~ quaesumus,
696 4, 2, 0, 2856 | 2856 "Then, after the prayer is over you say 'Amen,'
697 4, 2, 0, 2856 | what is contained in the prayer that God has taught us."179~
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