praying with women doctors

How’s Your Prayer Life?

Learning from the

Women Doctors St. Peter’s in the Loop – Chicago

October 30, 2014

Melanie Rigney

About the Doctors

What’s a Doctor of the Church?

How many are there?

About the women

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582; named a Doctor

October 1970)

Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897; October 1997)

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380; October 1970)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179; October 2012)

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About Prayer

When do you pray?

Where do you pray?

How do you pray?

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Teresa of Avila

The early challenges

The four stages of prayer

The Interior Castle refinements

What we can learn

Be patient

Let the Lord be in charge

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Therese of Lisieux

The early challenges

The “Little Way” epiphany

What we can learn

Don’t overthink prayer

There’s no wrong way to talk

with God

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Catherine of Siena

The early challenges

The road to “perfection”

What we can learn

“Perfect” prayer is easier

than we think

Great learning is not

required to have a great

prayer life

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Hildegard of Bingen

The early challenges

Obedient yet bold

What we can learn

Prayer comes in many forms

Don’t make prayer harder

than it needs to be

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Summing It Up: Be patient with yourself… and God… in

prayer (He is).

Love God… and yourself (He does).

Thanks for Coming!

God Bless!

Melanie Rigney

www.sisterhoodofsaintsbook.com

melanie@melanierigney.com

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