Our Father
What is prayer? Seems like a simple question. Read YouCat 469 p.258.
Question 1: Why is prayer a gift one obtains through prayer?
Why do we pray? How did we come up with this idea? Did we just start talking to ourselves one day and decided to call it prayer?
Read YouCat 470 p.258 and then...
Question 2: List three things that can come from prayer.
There are certainly different types of prayer. Read YouCat 500-504 p.274-276.
Question 3: Which type of prayer is the most unusual to you?
We also have prayers that are memorized. The Sign of the Cross, Hail Mary, and Our Father are very common prayers we say vocally, we can meditate upon these words as well.
Right now we're going to look at the Our Father, the prayer Christ himself taught us to pray. What do you already know about the Our Father?
Read YouCat 511-518 p.280-282.
Question 4: Tell me three things you learned that you did not know before about the Our Father.
Petition ONE: Hallowed be thy name
Read YouCat 519
Petition TWO: Thy kingdom come
Read YouCat 520
Question 5: Look at the margin on p283, what does the verse from Col 3:2 mean to you?
Petition THREE: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Read YouCat 521
Question 6: What does Pope Benedict XVI say has happened when we have removed God from our lives?
Petition FOUR: Give us this day our daily bread
Read YouCat 522
Question 7: What is Blaise Pascal saying about this? (margin pg. 284)
Petition FIVE: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
Read YouCat 524
Petition SIX: Lead us not into temptation
Read YouCat 525
Petition SEVEN: Deliver us from evil
Read YouCat 526
Question 8: What does Charles Baudelaire's quote have to do with Petitions 6 & 7?
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