In the Catholic Church, prayer is "lifting one's mind and heart to God or asking for the good things of God." This is a moral act of religious virtue, which Catholic theologians identify as part of the cardinal morality of justice.
Prayer can be expressed verbally or mentally. Vocal prayer can be pronounced or sung. Inner prayer can be either meditation or contemplation. The basic forms of prayer are praise, petition (petition), intercession, and thanksgiving.
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Teachings of prayer
The Roman Catholic teaching on the matter of prayer is contained in the Catechism, in which to quote St. John of Damascus, prayer is defined as "... the rapture of one's mind and heart to God or the request of the good things of God". St. ThÃÆ' Â © rÃÆ'¨se from Lisieux describes the prayer as "... a surge of heart, it is a simple view that turns to heaven, it is a cry of confession and love, embracing trials and joys."
With prayer one admits the strength and goodness of God, and his own difficulties and dependencies. It is therefore a religious virtue act that implies deepest respect for God and familiarize someone to see him for everything. Prayer assumes faith in God and hopes in his favor. By both, God, to whom one prayed, transferred the individual to prayer.
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Prayer expression
Vocal prayer
Prayer can be divided into vowel and mental type. Vowel prayer is made by using some form of approved word, read or read; such as the sign of the cross, the Liturgy of the Clock (Divine Office), Angelus, the before and after awards, etc. Inner prayer is made without using any word or formula. Catholics are advised to cautiously underestimate the usefulness or needs of vocal prayers. General vocal prayers include Our Father's Prayer (Our Father, Father Noster), Hail Mary (Ave Maria, Angel's Honor), Glory Be (Gloria Patri, Minor Doxology), and the Apostolic Faith Recognition (Symbolum Apostolorum).
Catholics regard vocal prayer as an essential element of the Christian life. Vowel prayer can be as simple and exhilarating as "Thank You, Lord, for this beautiful morning," or as simply as the Mass celebrates a very special event.
When two or more people gather together to pray, their prayers are called together. Examples of shared prayer are Rosario, prayer prayers including novena and litany, class prayer, and, most importantly, Mass.
Song
St. Ambrosius was introduced in Milan antiphonal singing from the psalm "after the Eastern way".
Prayers
Inner prayer is defined by Fr. John Hardon in his Modern Catholic Dictionary as a form of prayer in which the sentiment expressed is his own and not from others. Inner prayer is a form of prayer where one loves God through dialogue with it, meditating on its words, and contemplating it. This is the moment of silence focused on God and one's relationship with him. It is distinguished from vocal prayers that use the prescribed prayers, although the inner prayer may proceed with the use of vocal prayers to enhance dialogue with God. Inner prayer can be divided into meditation, or active mental prayer; and contemplation, passive mental prayer.
Meditation
Meditation is a form of reflective prayer involving thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. There are many methods of meditation like there is a spiritual teacher. The usual or active mental prayer consists of two operations; one belonging to a faculty of thought that implements imagination, memory, and understanding to consider some truth or mystery. Other operations depend on the will and force one to love, desire, and ask for the good that the mind puts forward, and make a resolution to arrive at it. According to St. Teresa, the soul in this stage is like a gardener, who, with a lot of manpower, draws water from the depths of the well to water plants and flowers.
Contemplation
Contemplative prayer is a silent concern that sees God by contemplating and admiring its attributes. St. Teresa elaborates on contemplative prayer [oración mental] as "... there is nothing else but to share closely between friends; it means taking the time often to be alone with him whom we know love us." In this inner prayer we can still meditate, but our attention is on God Himself. Contemplation, like all prayers, is a pure gift, and not anything one can achieve.
Prayer form
The Roman Catholic Church tradition highlights four basic elements of prayer: Blessings and Adoration Prayer, Petition Prayer, Intercession Prayer, and Prayer of Thanksgiving.
Blessing and adoration
In its broadest application, the word "blessing" has various meanings in the sacred writings. It can be taken in a sense identical to praise; so the psalmist, "I will bless the Lord all the time, the praise will always be in my mouth." Prayer blessings reveal praise and honor to God and is a human response to God's gifts.
Adoration is the first attitude of man to recognize that he is a creature before his Creator. Praise is the fastest form of prayer recognizing that God is God. It glorifies God for his own benefit and gives him glory, beyond what He does, but only because of Him.
Petition
The prayer of petition is a request to God who asks him to make ends meet. With prayer of petition, Catholics recognize their dependence on God. This expression is not meant to instruct or direct God what to do, but to ask for his kindness for the things we need; and that attraction is necessary, not because He does not know our needs or sentiments, but to give a definite form to our desires, to focus all our attention on what we should recommend to him, to help us appreciate our close personal relationships.. The expression does not need external or vowel; internal or mental is enough. The petition prayer is essentially the Law of Faith that the person who prays must believe first, in the existence of God; and secondly, that God is willing and able to grant the petition. The Catechism states that asking for forgiveness, coupled with believing humility, must be the first movement of petition prayer. Jesus said to bring our every need to God in His name and guarantee that "whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you." (John 16:23) Through petitions one can ask God for help with every need no matter how big or small. According to the Catechism , Christ is glorified by what we ask the Father in His name.
Intercession
Intercession is an application prayer that leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is an intermediary with the Father on behalf of everyone, especially sinners. Intercession is also a prayer to Mary and the saints on behalf of others who ask God to help others with the things they need.
Thank you
Thanksgiving is thanks to God for what has been given and done.
Psalms
Psalms have always been an important part of the Catholic liturgy. From the early days to the present day, Christians see the Old Testament as the support of Christ. The evangelists put the words of the psalm on the lips of Jesus during his passion. Along this line, the ancient monks and nuns in the Egyptian desert heard the voice of Jesus in all the psalms. They believe the psalm was written by King David, but they also believe that the pre-existence of Christ inspired David to do the writing (Psalm 110: 1). For this reason, they pray the whole day of the Psalms. This tradition has grown and changed, but still continues, faithful to ancient practice. In Christian monasteries and many religious houses around the world, men and women swear men and women gather three to seven times each day to pray the psalm.
The Liturgy of Jam is rooted in the singing or reading of the Psalms. The early Catholics used the Psalms widely in their personal prayers as well. Until the end of the Middle Ages, the lay people were not known to join the singing of the Little Office of Our Lady, which was a short version of the Liturgy Hour providing a fixed daily cycle of twenty-five psalms to be read.
Devotions
Devotion is a pious prayer or practice used to show respect for a particular aspect of God or the person of Jesus, or for a particular saint. Catholic devotion has various forms, ranging from formal prayers such as novena to activities that do not involve praying, such as Eucharistic adoration, worship of the saints, and even horticultural practices such as maintaining the garden of Mary. Common examples of Catholic devotion include the Rosary, the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Sacred Face of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the worship of the saints, etc. The Congregation for Divine Worship at the Vatican publishes i> Devotional directory and pious practice . Rosary is a devotion to meditation on the mystery of joy, sorrow and glory of Jesus and Mary. Sister Lucia dos Santos said: "The most holy maiden of these last days in which we live has given new efficacy to the rosary reading in such a way that there is no problem, no matter how difficult, whether temporal or above all spiritual, each of us, our family... that Rosary can not solve.No matter, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not finish it with the Holy Rosary. "In his encyclical Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Pope John Paul II, stresses that the ultimate goal of the Christian life is to be transformed, or "transformed," into Christ, and the rosary helps believers come closer to Christ by contemplating Christ.
Learn to pray
Despite the many promises associated with prayer, in his book "The Way to Christ" Pope John Paul II warned against "mechanical prayer" and showed the necessity of self-reflection before prayer. And in his message to the 42nd "Prayer Day", he said:
In the Catholic tradition, there are many legends about the power of persistent prayer. In the fourth century, Saint Monica of Hippo was said to have prayed for the conversion of his son Augustine for fourteen years and he eventually became an influential figure in Christian thought.
See also
- Christian devotional literature
- Christian prayer
- Roman Catholic Prayer to Jesus
Note
References
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition . USCC, Inc. 1997.
- Lehodey, Dom Vitalis (1912). How to Pray Mental . Dublin: M.H. Gill.
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