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Prayer

Prayer is a relationship before it is a method. These pages introduce the prayers and practices Catholics return to most, with enough detail to begin today.

  1. What Prayer Is Prayer as a living relationship with God: its five forms, its three expressions, what to do with distraction and dryness, and how to begin.
  2. The Our Father The prayer Jesus taught his disciples, line by line: its address to the Father, its seven petitions and its closing Amen.
  3. The Rosary A Scripture-based meditation on the life of Christ, prayed with Mary: how to pray it step by step, the twenty mysteries and their days.
  4. The Liturgy of the Hours The Church's daily prayer of psalms, which sanctifies the hours of the day: its parts, who prays it, and an easy way for a beginner to start.
  5. Lectio Divina An ancient way of praying with Scripture in four steps (reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation), with a worked example from John's Gospel.
  6. The Examen St Ignatius of Loyola's short daily prayer of review: five steps, a ten-minute version, and how it differs from preparing for confession.

Awaiting review The articles in this library are awaiting review by a priest. Until then, read them alongside the Catechism paragraphs they cite, and take questions to your parish.

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A library for deepening the Catholic faith, named for St Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), who used the web to show people the Eucharist.

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The illustrations in The Mass are those of the book it is set from, Rahasia Indah Dibalik Misa.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Kompendium Katekismus Gereja Katolik © 2009 Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia and Penerbit Kanisius, translated by Harry Susanto, SJ.

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