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Chapter Two Prayer Gaudete Sunday

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Opening Prayer

Come, Holy SpiritCome, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful andenkindle in them the fire of Your love.V. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit, Youhave taught the hearts of Your faithful. In the same Spirithelp us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice inYour consolation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.Amen.

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First Joyful Mystery The Annunciation

The Third Joyful MysteryThe Nativity of Christ

And it came to pass, that in those days there went out adecree from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world

should be enrolled. And it came to pass, that when theywere there, her days were accomplished, that she should

be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, andwrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in amanger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:1, 6-7

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Prayer

Successful Prayer Jesus on Prayer Jesus Answers Every Prayer Called to Prayer Expressions of Prayer Forms of Prayer Impediments to Prayer PsalmsCatholic PrayersPrayer Plan for the Day

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What makes prayer successful?

Successful prayer requires a change of heart, a desire to see the will of others and the will of God accomplished instead of our own.

To pray is not towithdraw to our own private corner of happiness.When we pray properly we undergo a process of inner purification

which opens us up to God and thus to our fellow human beings as well.In prayer, we must learn what we can truly ask of God - what is worthyof God. We must learn that we cannot pray against others, that wecannot ask for the superficial and comfortable things that we desire atthis moment - that meager, misplaced hope that leads us away from God- and we must learn to purify our desires and our hopes.

- Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi , #33

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Jesus on Prayer Urgent Prayer

I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs

because of his persistence. And I tell you, ask and you willreceive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will beopened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the onewho seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will beopened.

If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the holySpirit to those who ask him?

Luke 11:8-10, 13

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Jesus on Prayer Pray Without Ceasing

There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected man. And a widow in that town used to come to him andsay, Render a just decision for me against my adversary. For along time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, Whileit is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,

because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decisionfor her lest she finally come and strike me.

The Lord said, Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Willnot God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to himday and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he willsee to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?

Luke 18:2-8

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Jesus on Prayer Pray With Humility

Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee,and the other a publican. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus withhimself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. I

fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyestowards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, bemerciful to me a sinner.

I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall behumbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

Luke 18:10-14

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Jesus Answers Every Prayer

Ask the Father in Jesus Name

Sign of the Cross

Ask for Things Needed for Salvation

No ATM Prayers

Pray Confidently as Jesus Did

Be in the State of Grace when Praying

But most of all, pray that Gods will be done!

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Called to Prayer

Sunday Mass

Morning Prayer

Evening Prayers

Before and After Meals

In Time of Need

Liturgy of the Hours

Daily Mass

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Expressions of Prayer

Vocal Prayer

Meditation

Contemplation

This is not Centering Prayer Must Be Avoided

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Forms of Prayer

Adoration

Before the Tabernacle

Exposition

ThanksgivingSilently after Communion

Contrition

Nightly after Examination of Conscience

Petition

For Spiritual Strength and Wisdom

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Impediments to Prayer

Dryness

Noise

Over-tasking

Blow Away Impediments with:

Faith

Use Scripture

Imitate the Saints

Patience and perseverance

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Psalms

Numbering Septuagint and English

Types

Praying the Psalms

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Psalms Numbering

Same Numbering Ps 1-10

English Numbering Splits Ps 10 into 10 and 11

English after 10 = Septuagint +1

Septuagint Splits 146 into 146 and 147

Same Numbering Ps 148

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Psalm TypesPsalms of Praise

8, 19, 29, 33, 10[0,103,104], 11[1,3,4,7], 13[5-6], 145-150

Psalms of Lament

Community 12, 14, 44, 5[3,8], 60, 7[4,9], 8[0,3,5,9], 9[0,4],

106, 12[3,6], 137Individual 3-7,1, [3,7], 2[2,5-8], 3[1,5,6,8,9],4[0,2,3], 51

5[2,4-7,9], 6[1,3,4,9], 7[0,1,7], 8[6,8], 10[2,9], 120, 130, 14[0-3]

Praying the Psalms of Thanksgiving

Individual 9, 1[0,1,6], 23, 3[0,2,4], 41, 62, 9[1,2], 116, 121,13[1,8]

Community 6[5-8], 75, 107, 11[5,8], 12[4,5,9]

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Praying the Psalms

Psalms have the power to raise men's minds to God and to evoke inthem holy and wholesome thoughts GILH 100

Each Psalm has a literal meaning which even in our time cannot be

neglected. GILH 107The Holy Spirit who inspired the psalmists, is always present withHis grace to those Christians who with good intention sing andrecite these songs GILH 101

The Psalms express the deepest movements of the soul in wordsthat are designed to be prayed in common.... When prayed in

private, alone the Psalms by their very nature join us to the wholeBody of Christ The School of Prayer , p43

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Structure of the Psalms

ParallelismSome trust in chariots, and some in horses:

but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God. Ps 20:8Unless the Lord build the house,

they labor in vain that build it. Ps 127:1Israel: The ChurchForces of Nature: CreationCovenant: Christ in the new covenantExodus: Our spiritual journey

The King: ChristExile: the Church MilitantThe Temple: Christ the new temple His PresenceMt Zion, Jerusalem: The Church on Earth and in Heaven

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Catholic Prayers

Sign of the CrossOur Father Hail MaryGlory BeApostles' CreedAct of ContritionMorning Offering

AngelusHail Holy QueenBlessing before MealsGrace after MealsPrayer to St. MichaelEternal Rest

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Catholic Prayers

Sign of the CrossOur Father Hail MaryGlory BeApostles' CreedAct of ContritionMorning Offering

AngelusHail Holy QueenBlessing before MealsGrace after MealsPrayer to St. MichaelEternal RestShort Ejaculations