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CHAPTER THREE
THE LIFE OF PRAYER

ARTICLE 1
EXPRESSIONS OF PRAYER

I. VOCAL PRAYER

2700 Through his Word, God speaks to man. By words, mental or vocal, our prayer takes flesh. Yet it is most important that the heart should be present to him to whom we are speaking in prayer: "Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of words, but on the fervor of our souls."2

2701 Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani.3

2702 The need to involve the senses in interior prayer corresponds to a requirement of our human nature. We are body and spirit, and we experience the need to translate our feelings externally. We must pray with our whole being to give all power possible to our supplication.

2703 This need also corresponds to a divine requirement. God seeks worshippers in Spirit and in Truth, and consequently living prayer that rises from the depths of the soul. He also wants the external expression that associates the body with interior prayer, for it renders him that perfect homage which is his due.

2704 Because it is external and so thoroughly human, vocal prayer is the form of prayer most readily accessible to groups. Even interior prayer, however, cannot neglect vocal prayer. Prayer is internalized to the extent that we become aware of him "to whom we speak;"4 Thus vocal prayer becomes an initial form of contemplative prayer.

II. MEDITATION

2705 Meditation is above all a quest. The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life, in order to adhere and respond to what the Lord is asking. The required attentiveness is difficult to sustain. We are usually helped by books, 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" of God is written.

2706 To meditate on what we read helps us to make it our own by confronting it with ourselves. Here, another book is opened: the book of life. We pass from thoughts to reality. To the extent that we are humble and faithful, we discover in meditation the movements that stir the heart and we are able to discern them. It is a question of acting truthfully in order to come into the light: "Lord, what do you want me to do?"

2707 There are as many and varied methods of meditation as there are spiritual masters. Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble the three first kinds of soil in the parable of the sower.5 But a method is only a guide; the important thing is to advance, with the Holy Spirit, along the one way of prayer: Christ Jesus.

2708 Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. This mobilization of faculties is necessary in order to deepen our convictions of faith, prompt the conversion of our heart, and strengthen our will to follow Christ. Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary. This form of prayerful reflection is of great value, but Christian prayer should go further: to the knowledge of the love of the Lord Jesus, to union with him.

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  • Jesus is coming, that's what he's voicing.

  • I believe he says a man filmed this image one morning as he saw it in a cloud , as it appeared to be a cross.

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  • @heartlessraza Huh!?

  • Devil work to miss guide ppl and strongen Chirstains wrong belifes

  • Project blue beam research it!

  • @jshaw313 If there's no god,then who created you?did you create yourself?do you actually know just how complex your brain is and to say no-one created and designed it is just stupid and ridiculous...and btw,Jesus(peace be upon him) WILL return to earth because our prophet Muhammad(s.a.w) told us that and he(s.a.w) does not speak of his(s.a.w) own desire but only through revelation from Almighty God.

  • PROJECT BLUE BEAM

    is a load of crap.

    I don't know what the hell that is but it's neither Jesus or the NWO.

  • Our time is short and we have to Repent before Jesus Christ returns and the destruction continues.

  • @RetroZombieee no. never have. sorry can you pm me with this? or links to it? ( links to any info out there) ill draw my own conclusions on this

  • Praise God!!! 

  • First of all, why would GOD put a killing device in the sky?

    Second, its called Adobe AfterEffects.

    Third, project bluebeam would be my last guess.

  • @jshaw313 You are very ignorant, and arrogant. It's silly to say there is no god, saying there is no god is also saying "I know %100 of everything there is to know, so I am always right."

    BELIEVING there is no God, is different, and acceptable. You have some thinking to do.

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