YOUCAT the catechism
for Catholic youth
506 Is prayer not just a
sort of conversation with yourself?
The distinctive feature about prayer is precisely the fact
that one goes from Me to You, from self-centeredness to radical openness. Someone who is really praying can experience
the fact that God speaks—and that often he does not speak as we expect and
would like.
Sermon on the Mount where
Jesus taught his disciples how to pray (see Matthew 6:5). Painting by Carl
Heinrich Bloch 1834-1890. …...506
Those who are experienced in prayer report that a person
very often comes out of a prayer session different from the way he went
in. Sometimes expectations are met: you
are sad and find consolation; you lack confidence and receive new strength. It can also happen, though, that you would
like to forget pressures but are made even more uneasy; that you would like to
be left in peace and instead receive an assignment. A real encounter with God—the kind that
occurs again and again in prayer—can shatter our preconceptions about both God
and prayer.
Fight the good fight of the faith. –1 Timothy 6:12
“Here God and the devil struggle, and the battleground is
the human heart.” --Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
As long as we live, we fight, and as long as we are
fighting, that is a sign that we are not defeated and that the good Spirit
dwells within us. And if death does not
meet you as the victor, he should find you a warrior.. –St. Augustine (354-430)
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