CHRISTIAN PRAYER
CHRISTIAN PRAYER is not diving into a soft chair for a moment to catalogue the day’s activities and chart the peaks and valleys of your emotions. Rather, you start by asking the Holy Spirit to form your prayer into the likeness of Christ the merciful and faithful high priest.
YOU PRAY when having abandoned the noise of the day, you undertake the work of contemplating God’s ideas, loving them, and obeying them to your utmost. Ask God for wisdom to understand that all his ideas really are just one idea, one Truth, one Person--Our Lord Jesus Christ through whom all things were made. [cf. Jn 1:1-3]
PRAYER IS the summit of all worthy human ideas, indeed the knowledge that all good things lead to one thing--Jesus Christ. He is worth dying for in this life and living with eternally in the next. So pray fervently to spread the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere"! [2Cor 2:14]