Friday, May 11, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 469 – Part I.
(Youcat
answer) Prayer is turning the heart toward God. When a person prays, he enters
into a living relationship with God.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC
2558) "Great is
the mystery of the faith!" The Church professes this mystery in the
Apostles' Creed (Part One) and celebrates it in the sacramental liturgy (Part
Two), so that the life of the faithful may be conformed to Christ in the Holy
Spirit to the glory of God the Father (Part Three). This mystery, then,
requires that the faithful believe in it, that they celebrate it, and that they
live from it in a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God.
This relationship is prayer.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Prayer is the great gate leading into faith.
Someone who prays no longer lives on his own, for himself, and by his own
strength. He knows there is a God to whom he can talk. People who pray entrust
themselves more and more to God. Even now they seek union with the one whom
they will encounter one day face to face. Therefore, the effort to pray daily is
part of Christian life. Of course, one cannot learn to pray in the same way one
learns a technique. As strange as it sounds, prayer is a gift one obtains
through prayer.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC
2559) "Prayer is
the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things
from God" (St. John Damascene, De
fide orth. 3, 24: PG 94, 1089C) But when we pray, do we speak from the
height of our pride and will, or "out of the depths" of a humble and
contrite heart? (Ps 130:1). He who humbles himself will be exalted (Cf. Lk
18:9-14); humility is the foundation
of prayer, Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to
pray as we ought" (Rom 8:26), are we ready to receive freely the gift of
prayer. "Man is a beggar before God" (St. Augustine, Sermo 56, 6, 9: PL 38, 381).
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