In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity (Jeremiah 31:31-34) every person can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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1. Why bother with God at all? What if God isn’t real? Cf. Catholic Answers.com / Bishop Barron YouTube
2. About praying – Cf. Prayer… what is that ?
3. How can we possibly get to know God? How can we be known by God? Cf. Developing Christian Disciplines as RC’s
4.
If prayer is a divine fire, just
putting the kindling and logs together isn’t enough. We need a spark or match
or lighter to produce the first flame. What’s a spiritual match, lighter, or
spark?
(1)
The Book of Psalms in the Old
Testament of the Bible
(2)
The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles
in the New Testament of the Bible
(3)
The Wisdom books in the Old
Testament
(4)
The Letters of Paul, Peter, John,
James & Jude in the New Testament
(5) These are a good start, and then there’s a lot more.
5.
Is it possible to get coaching or
mentoring in prayer and in the spiritual life?
(1)
The most personal opportunity to
experience the healing power of God’s love and to be interiorly touched
personally by God is in the Sacrament of Penance / Reconciliation, which is
also called Confession and is available from all priests in the R.C. Church.
Just find a priest you can trust or with whom you may feel comfortable and ask
him.
(2)
The Ignatian Center of Montreal in
NDG provides Prayer Companions
(3)
The Ignatian Center of Montreal in
NDG also provides Spiritual Directors
(4)
You can obtain spiritual direction
on various retreat experiences in retreat centers
(5)
You can ask your parish priest
(6)
Your parish may provide spiritual
exercises that might help you
(7) Our Church provides many opportunities for formation, learning, and accompaniment
6.
What are the essentials of prayer?
The acronym ACTS can help you
remember easily.
(1)
Adoration:
expressing reverence for God by attitude, posture, words, interior disposition
(2)
Contrition:
expressing to God sincere regret for wrongs / sins / omissions / neglect
(3)
Thanksgiving:
giving thanks to God for his benefits we notice and those we haven’t
(4)
Supplication:
putting our needs and requests and those of others to God – He already knows,
but we need to exercise our desire in order to get ready for his answer
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7.
What different kinds or methods or
styles of prayer are there? Answer: an almost infinite variety
(1)
Prayerfully reading and pondering
the inspired Word of God in Sacred Scripture: the Bible
(2)
Prayerfully participating in the
various Sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist / Mass
(3)
Praying and meditating on the
Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(4)
Praying the Liturgy of the Hours,
also called the Divine Office or The Breviary
(5)
Occupational Prayer: shooting short
prayer phrases to God in the midst of daily occupations
(6)
The Prayer of Silence or
Contemplation: silently welcoming the Holy Trinity as interior Guests
(7)
Various forms of meditation:
relating personally to work of religious art as a window to God
(8)
Calling on a saint to keep you
company and help you to pray to God: e.g. Mary in the Rosary
(9)
Many, many more…. e.g. Ignatian
Prayer, Carmelite Prayer, Franciscan Prayer….
In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity (Jeremiah 31:31-34) every person can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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