Prayer: Resources

General Prayer Aids Prayer Request Prayers Church Documents Victor Hoagland, C.P. Monastic Primer On Prayer Lectio Divina	Reviews of Web Sites on Prayers Prayer Posters & Art Prints Last Words of Jesus: Meditation The Lord's Prayer Listening to the Lord's Prayer Posters of the Lord's Prayer Rosary Spirituality The Magnificat 1st Mystery of Light: The Baptism of Jesus

Prayer and Christian life are inseparable, for they concern the same love and the same renunciation, proceeding from love; the same filial and loving conformity with the Father's plan of love; the same transforming union in the Holy Spirit who conforms us more and more to Christ Jesus; the same love for all men, the love with which Jesus has loved us. "Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he [will] give it to you. This I command you, to love one another." -- Catechism of the Catholic Church #2745

The prayer of the Church, nourished by the Word of God and the celebration of the liturgy, teaches us to pray to the Lord Jesus. Even though her prayer is addressed above all to the Father, it includes in all the liturgical traditions forms of prayer addressed to Christ. Certain psalms, given their use in the Prayer of the Church, and the New Testament place on our lips and engrave in our hearts prayer to Christ in the form of invocations: Son of God, Word of God, Lord, Savior, Lamb of God, King, Beloved Son, Son of the Virgin, Good Shepherd, our Life, our Light, our Hope, our Resurrection, Friend of mankind. . . . -- Catechism of the Catholic Church #2765