Diocese of Philadelphia PA October 18 2018 President Institute for Pastoral Leadership Diocese of Pitsburgh Director of Curriculum Development Sophia Institute for Teachers Michel Therrien STL STD ID: 744067
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Prayer: A Conversation with God
Diocese of Philadelphia, PA| October, 18 2018
President, Institute for Pastoral LeadershipDiocese of Pitsburgh
Director of Curriculum DevelopmentSophia Institute for Teachers
Michel Therrien, S.T.L., S.T.D
Mike GutzwillerSlide2
Session 1
Called to Communion: Prayer as Intimacy with GodSlide3
Why Pray? What Good Does it Do?
Communion with GodTransforming the world inside ourselvesSlide4
Who is this God of Ours?
“While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.”Luke 15:20Slide5
What does Jesus see?
Pope Francis, Lumen fidei, no. 18: “In faith, Christ is not simply the one in whom we believe, the supreme manifestation of God’s love; he is also the one with whom we are united precisely in order to believe. Faith does not merely gaze at Jesus, but sees things as Jesus himself sees them, with his own eyes: it is a participation in his way of seeing.”Slide6
Meeting the Gaze of JesusAffirmation: I love You
Reassurance: Martha, you are worried . . . Consolation: My Good and faithful servantForgiveness: Your sins are forgivenPeace: Peace I leave you, my peace I give youDirection: Go and do likewiseChallenge: You have heard it saidSlide7
The Key
SilenceSlide8
Deepening our Communion with Him
Are we disposing ourselves to his daily visits?Do we rest in the Lord, search for his gaze in silence?Do we spend time meditating on his Word?Do we cultivate the practice of recollection?Do we visit him interiorly throughout our day?Do we ask our Mother to bring us to him? Do we behold her face?Slide9
What Jesus teaches about Prayer
In solitudeTo the FatherThanksgiving
Forgiveness Conversion of heart
Filial entrustmentPersistent confidenceVigilance
In His nameIn the SpiritSlide10
Movements of PrayerSlide11
Expressions of Prayer
Body
MindWillSlide12
Struggle in PrayerSlide13
Session 2
Spirituality and the Soul’s journey to GodSlide14
The Spiritual Life is About . . .
The soul’s journey to GodA developmental process of growthBuilding relationship with GodThe restoration of the divine likeness; salvationParticipation in the divine lifeSlide15
The Three Ages of the Spiritual Life
Dark Night of the Senses
Dark Night
of the SpiritConversion to ChristSlide16
New Age Spirituality
Harnessing spiritual energyMental techniques for managing anxietyTranscending the problem of sufferingFocusing inwardSlide17
CCC, 2561: You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10). Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God:
‘They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water’ (Jer. 2:13)! Prayer is the response of faith to the free promise of salvation and also a response of love to the thirst of the only Son of God (John 19:28; Is 12:3).Prayer is Essential to Spiritual GrowthSlide18
A Word about the Psalms
2587 “The Psalter is the book in which the Word of God becomes man's prayer. In other books of the Old Testament, ‘the words proclaim [God's] works and bring to light the mystery they contain.’ The words of the Psalmist, sung for God, both express and acclaim the Lord's saving works; the same Spirit inspires both God's work and man's response. Christ will unite the two. In him, the psalms continue to teach us how to pray.