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 1 Int  |              continues to repeat that prayer or the interior life are «
 2 Int  |         attributes the whole value to prayer and the interior life while
 3 Int  |               the reserves drawn from prayer become gradually exhausted,
 4 Int  |              search for unity between prayer and the apostolate, in the
 5 Int  |             the paradox, assigning to prayer the apostolic value which
 6 Int  |              seems should be given to prayer and interior life.~To guide
 7 Int  |              to do or the practice of prayer and spiritual exercises: «
 8 Int  |              charity will be found in prayer and especially in the eucharistic
 9 Int  |               more intimately through prayer into the mystery of Christ».~
10 Int  |           remind them of the need for prayer in order to fulfil the Father'
11 Int  |               as a proof of authentic prayer. The post-synodal Exhortation
12 Int  |               one is obliged to leave prayer to attend to a poor person
13 Int  |             poor person in need, that prayer is not really interrupted
14 Int  |            and the apostolic value of prayer into unity of life. They
15 Int  |             at the end of this study.~Prayer and apostolate, interior
16 Int  |            the limit say: what use is prayer? What is the purpose of
17 Int  |               selfgiving and service. Prayer helps us to live explicitly
18 Int  |        servant, consecrated and sent, prayer and life, like in Jesus,
19 Int  |             is the measure of genuine prayer, of a real interior life
20 Int  |             that every real Christian prayer has a value in itself, even
21 Int  |      apostolic commitment it arouses. Prayer is the moment of our response.
22 Int  |             come later. In liturgical prayer and in personal prayer the
23 Int  |     liturgical prayer and in personal prayer the priest, the religious,
24 Int  |             to fulfil it.~This is why prayer should never be measured
25 Int  |     usefulness but of gratuitousness. Prayer is a gift which God gives
26 Int  |              is of the very nature of prayer and love to leave to God
27 Int  |               he identifies. It is in prayer that we learn to accept
28 Int  |             serve better.~Saying that prayer must lead to action now
29 Int  |         basically not very devoted to prayer, precisely so that they
30 Int  |            great mystic, a teacher of prayer and service. In her we will
31 1    |               life and of the path of prayer. In making this necessary
32 1    |           famous: «This is the aim of prayer: this is the purpose of
33 1    |           basis of a real pedagogy of prayer «It will profit me little
34 1    |                   Giving an outlet to prayer, linking the continuity
35 1    |             linking the continuity of prayer and works is Teresa's pedagogical
36 1    |               an idealism that leaves prayer in good words and thoughts,
37 1    | misunderstandings that could belittle prayer, the Saint hastens to make
38 1    |            make an obvious defence of prayer and of everything in it
39 1    |             was wrong when I said it [prayer] will profit me little,
40 1    |         Teresa is convinced that when prayer expresses a real desire
41 1    |            she wishes to find help in prayer, she must learn to subdue
42 1    |          friendship. A Church without prayer diminishes her essence.
43 1    |                as a Temple from which prayer and the spiritual sacrifice
44 1    |               out as a celebration of prayer. We do not let ourselves
45 2    |           speaks of the union between prayer and life, disguised with
46 2    |            withdrawing into piety and prayer without offering an outlet
47 2    |             build upon foundations of prayer and con­templation alone,
48 2    |             is a harmonious growth of prayer and virtues; the spiritual
49 2    |           person grows and matures in prayer which unites him to God
50 2    |             harmonious unity of life. Prayer needs the vital space of
51 2    |         nature of Christian life when prayer and life are opposed to
52 2    |                Instead the fruit of a prayer that seeks consistency in
53 2    |           should desire and engage in prayer, not for our enjoyment,
54 2    |               Bethany.~Unity of life: prayer and action, contemplation
55 3    |           with which she asserts that prayer is apostolic, when it fully
56 3    |       neighbour: love of God lived in prayer impels one to manifest it
57 3    |               great teacher's idea of prayer and the apostolate:~The
58 3    |               apostolic ,exodus­ from prayer towards our neighbour, like
59 3    |         harmonious growth of profound prayer and real apostolate. If
60 3    |               and real apostolate. If prayer and holiness demand works,
61 3    |             guided by Him not only in prayer but also in our activity.
62 3    |             and lead more forcibly to prayer.~We only need to look at
63 3    |              to be convinced of this. Prayer makes us like Christ and
64 3    |               in the mission, through prayer, the liturgy, personal maturity,
65 Concl|              consciousness aroused by prayer and the possibilities open
66 Concl|              of Christian asceticism, prayer, discernment, an ever deeper
67 Concl|           which unifies the Church in prayer and action - the two movements
68 Concl|              apostolic service and in prayer we, have the synthesis of
69 Concl|           That height in which he, in prayer and in the gift of self,