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Deepening our prayer life through our own spirituality

Emily ClaryMarch 12 & 16, 2015Mothers in Faith

Video: How to Go to Confession:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8pzvnnL20

Suggests we PRAY, FAST, and GIVE ALMS

We give something up, and we share with the poor.

PRAYER is an action too!!—a state of being.

40 days to prepare for NEW LIFE in Christ

Like a garden Orthodox Good Friday

Lent, means “Spring”

The Skinny on Prayer: https://skitguys.com/videos/item/the-skinny-on-prayer

(watch until 3:15)

What Prayer tends to Look Like….

We raise our MINDS and our HEARTS to God

We maintain our RELATIONSHIP with God

We strive for HOLINESS through God’s GRACE

We were CREATED for communion with God

PRAYER:

1) Blessing2) Adoration (Praise)3) Petition (Contrition) 4) Thanksgiving5) Intercession

*Why do we pray for others?*We are the BODY OF CHRIST (universal believers)*God tells us to pray for one another

Vocal Prayer:

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. “This is how you are to pray:Our Father in heaven,*

hallowed be your name,your kingdom come,*

your will be done,on earth as in heaven.Give us today our daily bread;and forgive us our debts,*

as we forgive our debtors;and do not subject us to the final test,*

but deliver us from the evil one.If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.

Finish watching “the skinny on prayer” video

The perfect prayer….

*Prayer to LISTEN to God, and to LEARN from God*Meditation ALWAYS reflects on Jesus.

Meditative Prayer:

“Be still, and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10

“It is Good that we are here” Matthew 17:4

Contemplative Prayer:

Rosary: Encompasses all three ways to pray.

Spirituality: How we connect with God and the Church

Sometimes called a charism

St. Ignatius of Loyola:

Spiritual Exercises

Silence

The Daily Examen

https://skitguys.com/videos/item/the-way-we-pray

(watch from 11:50 onward)

How God wants our Prayer…..