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Why should we adore God?

Every person who understands that he is God’s creature will humbly recognize the Almighty and adore him. Christian adoration, however, sees not only the greatness, omnipotence, and →HOLINESS of God. It also kneels before the divine Love that became man in Jesus Christ.

Someone who really adores God kneels down before him or prostrates himself on the ground. This gives expression to the truth about the relation between man and God: He is great and we are little. At the same time, man is never greater than when he freely and devoutly kneels down before God. The unbeliever who is seeking God and is beginning to pray can find God in this way.

Every day, at sunrise and sunset, believers renew their “adoration” or acknowledgment of the presence of God, Creator and Lord of the Universe. This recognition is full of gratitude that wells up from the depths of their heart and floods their entire being, for it is only by adoring and loving God above all things that human beings can totally fulfill themselves.

POPE BENEDICT XVI,

August 7, 2005

Why should we petition God?

What role did prayer play among the first Christians?

The first Christians prayed intensively. The early Church was moved by the Holy Spirit, who had come down upon the disciples and to whom they owed all their influence. “They held steadfastly to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers” (Acts 2:42).

What are the names of the five main types of prayer?

The five main types of prayer are → BLESSING and adoration, prayer of petition, prayer of intercession, prayer of thanksgiving, and prayer of praise. [2626-2643]

What is a prayer of blessing?

MARY AND THE ROSARY

What are the words of the “Hail Mary”?

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

In Latin:

Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum.

Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

How do you pray the Rosary?

1. In the name of the Father. . .

2. Apostles’ Creed 

3. Our Father

4. Three Hail Marys

5. “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

6. Five decades, each with one Our Father, ten Hail Marys, and a Glory Be to the Father.

What can we learn from the way in which Mary prayed?

To learn from Mary how to pray means to join in her prayer: “Let it be to me according to your word” (Lk 1:38). 

Prayer is ultimately self-giving in response to God’s love. If we say Yes as Mary did, God has the opportunity to lead his life in our life. [2617-2618, 2622, 2674] 84-85, 117

Where faith in the Mother of God declines, so does faith in the Son of God and in the Father.

LUDWIG FEUERBACH,

(1804-1872), atheist philosopher

Call on Mary with devotion, and she will not leave your needs unattended, since she is merciful, indeed, the Mother of Mercy.

ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

(1090-1153)

Why can we be confident that our prayer is heard by God?

Many people called on Jesus during his earthly life for healing, and their prayers were answered. Jesus, who rose from the dead, listens to our petitions and brings them to the Father.

[2615-2616, 2621]

Even today we know the name of the synagogue official: Jairus was the name of the man who begged Jesus for help, and his prayer was answered. 

His little daughter was deathly ill. No one could help her. Jesus not only healed his little girl, he even raised her from the dead (Mk 5:21-43). 

Jesus worked a whole series of well-attested cures. He performed signs and miracles. The lame, the lepers, and the blind did not ask Jesus in vain. There are testimonies also of prayers answered by all the saints of the Church. 

Many Christians can tell stories of how they called to God and God heard their prayer. 

God, however, is not an automat. We must leave it up to him how he will answer our petitions. 40, 51

He [Jesus] prays for us as our priest; he prays in us as our Head; we pray to him as our God. Let us therefore hear our voice in him and his voice in us.

ST. AUGUSTINE

(354-430)

If you would really pray to him for conversion, it would be granted to you.

ST. JOHN VIANNEY

(1786-1859)

What does it mean to learn from Jesus how to pray?

Learning from Jesus how to pray means entering into his boundless trust, joining in his prayer, and being led by him, step by step, to the Father. [2607-2614, 2621]

The disciples, who lived in community with Jesus, learned to pray by listening to and imitating Jesus, whose whole life was prayer. 

Like him, they had to be watchful and strive for purity of heart, to given up everything for the coming of God’s kingdom, to forgive their enemies, to trust boldly in God, and to love him above all things. 

By this example of devotion, Jesus invited his disciples to say to God Almighty, “Abba, dear Father”.