When someone asks us what it is prayer and how it should look without difficulty, each of us przytoczy definition of prayer as "conversation with God." Let us, however, our prayers and consider whether it is.
Most of us pray in this way that the sign of the cross recite some prayers, we say to God what we want him to say and to finish the prayer. But this is a conversation? Conversation is a dialogue, and so the situation in which two people talk and listen to each other. However, in our prayer we say only, so it is rather our monologue. Why is this happening?
In a conversation with God we have a problem, because God is the person to whom, humanly speaking, we can not see and hear. So is the Church made a mistake by defining prayer just as conversation with God? Or maybe we do not know how we listen to God? How can we change our prayer a monologue in a real dialogue with God? How to improve our prayer?
those who ask themselves these questions can help Seating prayers placed on our website. We find in him both the text of the prayer ("On Prayer"), help us to systematize our knowledge on this subject, as well as examples of prayers of the saints ("Treasury of Prayer") that will help us to pray when you do not find their own words.
But the most important role of this department our site is to help us in everyday listening to the voice of God. Here you can help us guns, "Daily Prayer", in which we find "Morning Prayer," "Evening Prayer", "Reading Day" (the ones that we hear at Mass.), So called. "An hour Readings from the Liturgy of the Hours, as well as" Meditation on 'to a fragment of the readings of the day. All of these tabs contain the Word of God for the day, they change so every day. They are not ready to pray, but the text of the Word of God to use in our personal prayer.
How use them in prayer? How should our prayer with the Word of God?
first stand in the presence of God - this is the first thing we do to our prayer at all an encounter with God. How do I do? First, we must calm down and realize Kim was about to meet, what to us is God. He is not someone far away who are not interested in us, there is also a colleague with whom I can drink coffee. He is our Creator and loving Father who wants us the best. To express our awareness that we should devote a special time for prayer (not the way to work or school) and take the appropriate attitude.
second Prayer to the Holy Spirit - At the beginning of the prayers we should ask the Holy Spirit to guide our prayer so that it was a real encounter with God. Above all, for a moment to read the Word of God transformed our minds and we can read in it the word of God addressed to us.
third Reading God's Word - At this moment in our prayers we must realize that Word of God contained in Scripture. is the word of God addressed to us also. Reading him in prayer serves two functions: First, read it every day in prayer, renews our mind and transforms our thinking so that our thoughts become the thoughts of God and that we "through the eyes of God" can look at the world and our lives. Secondly, it is a "favorite" way to communicate God with us. The Holy Spirit may use a portion of Scripture. to help us understand God's response to our specific problem or life situation. In this place of prayer the most common trouble is the choice part of the Bible that we read. And here we come with the help of prayer section of our site. In "Morning Prayer," "Evening Prayer" we have the short text of Scripture. (A psalm and a brief reading). For a long prayer, you can use the 'readings' on' (they are fragments of Scripture. Read during Mass. In the day) or so. "Office of Readings" (in which we are a long passage from Scripture. Przeżywanemu corresponding to the liturgical seasons and a text of the Church Fathers.) All articles with Scripture. in these sectors are changing every day, so that every prayer we have another piece. This is a great richness of the Word of God that can transform not only our prayers, but our thinking and consequently our lives. Therefore uses this wealth as the most abundant.
4th Our response - When you obey God, we need him to answer our prayers. Preferably in their own words to tell God everything we want to tell him how your best friend or our Father, of whom we know loves us. Morning we entrust God our whole day, evening, "summed up" it together with God, to do self-examination. For a long prayer to talk to God about specific issues of our lives.
5th Completion of prayer - At the end we may refuse to Our Father, Glory to the Father or some other prayer, which we like.
When in this way, we pray, our prayer will be any different. Above all, it becomes a dialogue with God, or as they say the saints' conversation with him by whom we know loves us. " It will become a means of union with God and the transforming power of our lives. Sincerely wish that all our Internet users.
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