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Strands of Prayer

Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy…. CCC 2744
Christian prayer is covenant relationship between God and man in Christ. CCC 2564
Christian prayer is cooperation with God’s providence, his plan of love for men. CCC 2739
Prayer and Christian life are inseparable, for they concern the same love and the same renunciation, proceeding from love; CCC 2745

Prayer restores man to God’s likeness and enables him to share in the power of God’s love that saves the multitude. CCC 2572

Prayer of petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ. CCC 2632

Prayer of intercession consists in asking on behalf of another. CCC 2647

Prayer of praise is entirely disinterested and rises to God, lauds him, and gives him glory for his own sake, quite beyond what he has done, but simply because HE IS. CCC 2649
Prayer cannot be reduced to the spontaneous outpouring of interior impulse: in order to pray, one must have the will to pray. CCC 2650

Prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. CCC 2560

Prayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit. CCC 2565
Prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.” CCC 2558

Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.” CCC 2559

Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God. CCC 2561
Prayer is bound up with human history, for it is the relationship with God in historical events. CCC 2568
Prayer is lived in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. CCC 2569
Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.” ​CCC 2590
Prayer is a vital necessity. CCC 2744
Abraham’s prayer is expressed first by deeds. When God calls him, Abraham goes forth “as the Lord had told him”; a man of silence, he constructs an altar to the Lord at each stage of his journey. CCC 2570
The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers…. CCC 2763
The spiritual tradition of the Church has retained the symbol of prayer as a battle of faith and as the triumph of perseverance. CCC 2573
For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin. CCC 2744
“Our time is in the hands of God: It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop, . . . while buying or selling, . . . or even while cooking.” 
CCC 2743