Topic: Prayer

Christ calls us to continue to grow in the measure of our love, prayer and good works.

A fortified inner self not only enables a person to offer love properly but to receive love properly, even from God, to give without strings, to receive without suspicion.

By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.

God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.

The Bible highlights the consequences of the world’s unjust economic system, and we, as the church, are called to find ways of living out our prayer for justice.

Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.

The three most valuable helps for those who would learn to pray are, 1) an experienced mentor or spiritual director,  2) the use of well prepared set prayers, and 3) perseverance.

Prayer is a learned discipline which begins with acknowledging God’s goodness and aligning ourselves with God’s purposes.