Articles on Prayer

Here are links to articles on prayer gleaned from various online sources:

• A Good Way for Catechists (or Anyone!) to Pray
  
• The Lord's Prayer during Lent by Jeanne Heiberg
  
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Prayers for Teachers and Students
  
• Parables Prayer Service: Lessons of Love from Jesus, The Master Teacher by Jean Grant - Help your students understand Jesus' use of parables with this prayer service.
  
• Praying to the God Who “Remembers” - The Word Among Us
  
• Names Written in Heaven by Sandi Belleque - "This is a good reflection prayer for anytime. It can be especially powerful during Lent."
  
• Praydreaming: Key to Discernment, by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J., Catholic Update - "We Christians don’t just decide things, we discern them. That is, we do our best to figure out what God is calling us to in every situation. We do our best to say yes to that divine invitation. But how do we discern God’s will for us? That’s the tricky part."
  
• How Can We Pray Unceasingly? by Ronald D. Witherup, S.S., The Passionists - Compassion - Spring, 2008 - Developing the habit of praying constantly, without ceasing, is a habit of the heart. If we heighten our awareness of God’s presence and action in the world and do not waiver in that desire, our life can become our “prayer” in the proper sense.
  
• Listening to that Soft Still Voice Within by Mother Nadine
  
• The Bible and Prayer by Michael D. Guinan, O.F.M. - When Pope Benedict XVI gathered Catholic Bishops to discuss the Bible at the Synod for Sacred Scripture, there was a lot of talk about the Eucharist, Scripture, and the practice of Lectio divina.
  
• Finding Your Own Way to Pray, by Jom and Susan Vogt, Every Day Catholic "Prayer generally falls into the broad categories of verbal or nonverbal, individual or communal, memorized or spontaneous, contemplative or active. Seekers might experiment with many of the following forms of prayer and let trial and error lead them to deeper conversation with God"