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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER
"...difficulties in the practice of prayer are distraction and dryness. the remedy lies in faith, conversion, and vigilance of heart."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER
"Two frequent temptations threaten prayer: lack of faith and acedia - a form of depression stemming from lax ascetical practice that leads to discouragement."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL
"From this unshakeable faith springs forth the hope that sustains each of the seven petitions, which express the groanings of the present age, this time of patience and expectation during which "it does not yet appear what we shall be."[22] The Eucharist and the Lord's Prayer..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN
"...one person. There is only one God, and he is recognized as Father by those who, through faith in his only Son, are reborn of him by water and the Spirit.[47] The Church is this new communion of God and men. United with the only Son, who has become "the firstborn among many..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN
"...remains our common patrimony and an urgent summons for all the baptized. In communion by faith in Christ and by Baptism, they ought to join in Jesus' prayer for the unity of his disciples.[50]"
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"By the three first petitions, we are strengthened in faith, filled with hope, and set aflame by charity. Being creatures and still sinners, we have to petition for us, for that "us" bound by the world and history, which we offer to the boundless love of God. For through the name..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.[125]"
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...in expectation of Christ's return By praying in this way, she anticipates in humility of faith the gathering together of everyone and everything in him who has "the keys of Death and Hades," who "is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."[174]
Deliver us, Lord, we..."