If You’re Looking for a Book on Prayer, Get This One First

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 08-24-16 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Mad Dawg]

Okay intercession falls under petition, as does penitence. And wordless adoration is, or at least implies, thanksgiving.

Some of us Catholics pray almost the entire Psalter every 4 weeks. My experience, having done this for decades, is that a psalm or a chunk of a Psalm will come unbidden but aptly to my alleged mind.

So, yeah, one can and many do pray rote prayers unconsciously. “We do not know how to pray as we ought.” But I don’t think they’re worthless. I may pray distractedly today what comes to my lips with power and urgency tomorrow. (Also, passages from scripture used as hymns or prayers are part of our daily practice.)

[chud]

If you want to follow the 1962 Mass/Breviary readings:

Amazon link for: With The Church

Amazon link for: Divine Intimacy

Between the two I would pick With The Church by Fr. Goossens. His meditations are wonderful, packed with scriptural insights, and the book is small enough to carry around easily (compared to Divine Intimacy).

Thanks for the recommendations!
I ordered Divine Intimacy based on the number of positive reviews, and the fact that it's easier to get (still published).
I'm a Trad at heart, so I greatly appreciate your recommendations.

[dsc]

Imitation of Christ, Book 3, 50 (87) How a Desolate Person Ought to Commit Himself into the Hands of God

...Let him be a little slighted, let him be humbled, let him fail in the sight of men, let him be afflicted with sufferings and pains, so that he may rise again with You in the dawn of the new light and be glorified in heaven...

[Salvation]

It’s a great book. Everyone needs to read it.

[dsc]

I’m undertaking to read one link a day.

[editor-surveyor]

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Yahweh has been demolished by real Paleo-Hebrew scholars for over a decade.

Wikipedophiles are always way behind the curve of real knowledge.

Yahweh is the choice of the “Jew-a-bes” along with their other contra-biblical nonsense like wearing Kipas, and calling their nicolaitans “Rabbi.”

It lets them feel so “Jewish.” (Jewish = Phariseeish)

They forget that our Messiach completely denounced every word and practice of the Pharisees in his ministry, and declared that our righteousness must greatly exceed that of the Pharisees.

King David is supposed to be our example.
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[Nifster]

Jesus taught us how to pray

[Mad Dawg]

And still teaches us.

[LadyDoc]

Try reading Andrew Murray with Christ in the school of prayer for a good Evangelical approach to fearing the voice of God in Prayer. The audio
Can be found here.

https://librivox.org/with-christ-in-the-school-of-prayer-by-andrew-murray/

Ralph Martin tends to use the Catholic vocabulary and is pentecostal in style, so might turn some people off. I haven’t read the book.

[HLPhat]

Or you could just follow Jesus' instructions:

Matt 6:5-15

5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 "This, then, is how you should pray:

"'Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

10 your kingdom come,

your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 Forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.'a

14 For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

NIV