What is Prayer?
This Saint defined prayer as: "the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”
Who is St. John Damascene?
Name 1 of the 3 times Jesus prays before an important event in His ministry.
1. His Baptism OR
2. His Transfiguration OR
3. His Passion and Death
This is the highest form of prayer.
What is the Mass?
This kind of prayer using scripture involves the prayerful reading and meditation of passages from anywhere in the scripture.
What is Lectio Divina.
True or False? Spiritual reading can be described as: "reading something that explains some aspect of Catholic truth in an attractive, enriching way."
True
Prayer is the _______ relationship between God and Man.
What is Covenant Relationship?
Jesus begins his prayers with this.
What is Thanksgiving?
This form of prayer involves words, both mental and vocal, directed towards God.
What is Vocal Prayer?
This kind of prayer using sacred scripture involves placing ourselves in scenes where Jesus is interacting with other people.
What is Gospel Contemplation?
False
Prayer is ________ because it invites us into a loving relationship with God.
What is God's Gift?
What is solitude?
This form of prayer directs all of our attention towards the Lord.
What is contemplative prayer?
This type of prayer involves Lection, Medatio, Oratio and this.
What is contemplatio?
True or False? Spiritual Reading can include the following genres: autobiographies, biographies, spiritual devotions, true stories and private writings?
True
Prayer is ________ because we are in relationship with the thrice-holy God.
What is Communion?
Jesus teaches us to pray with this kind of boldness.
What is filial boldness?
This form of prayer involves the quest to understand the why and how of the Christian life.
What is Meditative Prayer?
If you are looking for help in selecting scriptural passages, you can look to these for some inspiration?
What are the daily readings?
True or False? Spiritual Reading includes passages taken from the Bible?
What is the Our Father?
Jesus teaches us to pray with the interior conversion of this bodily organ?
Which one of the following is NOT a form of prayer?
1. Liturgy of the Hours
2. Adoration
3. The Rosary
4. Liturgy of the Lord
Liturgy of the Lord
True or False? The point of praying with scripture is certain outcomes, not your engagement with God.
False, it is about true engagement with God, not about a specific outcome.
In spiritual reading we can reflect on beauty, goodness and _________.
What is Truth?