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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"[123] that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...the depths of the heart, in the holiness and the mercy and the love of our God. Only the Spirit by whom we live can make "ours" the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.[140] Then the unity of forgiveness becomes possible and we find ourselves "forgiving one another, as God in..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER
"...asking God not to allow us to take the path that leads to sin. This petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength; it requests the grace of vigilance and final perseverance."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE REVELATION OF PRAYER - THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO PRAYER › IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
"...both those who are praying and all men. the Psalms arose from the communities of the Holy Land and the Diaspora, but embrace all creation. Their prayer recalls the saving events of the past, yet extends into the future, even to the end of history; it commemorates the..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE REVELATION OF PRAYER - THE UNIVERSAL CALL TO PRAYER › IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
"...his prayer through what his witnesses proclaim to us in the Gospel is to approach the holy Lord Jesus as Moses approached the burning bush: first to contemplate him in prayer, then to hear how he teaches us to pray, in order to know how he hears our prayer."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE TRADITION OF PRAYER
"...to the Father; it can also be directed toward Jesus, particularly by the invocation of his holy name: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners.""
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER
"...and after meals, the Liturgy of the Hours. Sundays, centered on the Eucharist, are kept holy primarily by prayer. the cycle of the liturgical year and its great feasts are also basic rhythms of the Christian's life of prayer."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER › EXPRESSIONS OF PRAYER
"...and Christians do not want for them: the Sacred Scriptures, particularly the Gospels, holy icons, liturgical texts of the day or season, writings of the spiritual fathers, works of spirituality, the great book of creation, and that of history the page on which the "today"..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER › EXPRESSIONS OF PRAYER
"...established by God within our hearts.[9] Contemplative prayer is a communion in which the Holy Trinity conforms man, the image of God, "to his likeness.""
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER › EXPRESSIONS OF PRAYER
"...look at him and he looks at me": this is what a certain peasant of Ars used to say to his holy cure about his prayer before the tabernacle. This focus on Jesus is a renunciation of self. His gaze purifies our heart; the light of the countenance of Jesus illumines the eyes of..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE › THE LIFE OF PRAYER › THE PRAYER OF THE HOUR OF JESUS
"By entering into the holy name of the Lord Jesus we can accept, from within, the prayer he teaches us: "Our Father!" His priestly prayer fulfills, from within, the great petitions of the Lord's Prayer: concern for the Father's name;[47] passionate zeal for his kingdom..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL
"...the petitions of the Our Father, St. Augustine concludes:
Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer.[9]"
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER
"...we say "Our" Father, we are invoking the new covenant in Jesus Christ, communion with the Holy Trinity, and the divine love which spreads through the Church to encompass the world."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...From the covenant of Sinai onwards, this people is "his own" and it is to be a "holy (or "consecrated": the same word is used for both in Hebrew) nation,"[73] because the name of God dwells in it."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...our prayer, if it is prayed in the name of Jesus.[84] In his priestly prayer, Jesus asks: "Holy Father, protect in your name those whom you have given me."[85]"
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...above all in the Eucharist. Her prayer is also a communion of intercession with the all-holy Mother of God[111] and all the saints who have been pleasing to the Lord because they willed his will alone:
It would not be inconsistent with the truth to understand the words,..."
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CHRISTIAN PRAYER › THE LORD'S PRAYER › THE SEVEN PETITIONS
"...name be hallowed, we were in fact asking him that we ourselves might be always made more holy. But though we are clothed with the baptismal garment, we do not cease to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition, we return to him like the prodigal son and, like the..."