NO TIME TO Pray

I knelt to pray but

not for long.
I had too much to do
Must hurry up and
go to work
 So I knelt and said a hurried
prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now
done
My soul could rest at ease.
 All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer.
No time to speak of Christ to
friends,
They’d laugh at me I’d fear.
No time, no time , too much to
do,
That was my constant cry.
No time to give to souls in
need
But at last the time to die.
 I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast
eyes.
For in His hands God held a
book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into His book
and said
“Your name I cannot find.
I once was going to write
it down…
 But
NEVER
found the
TIME.”
-Monsignor Lawrence Luciana
THE IMPORTANCE
OF PRAYER
 "Prayer," St. John
Damascene wrote, "is
the raising of one's
mind and heart to God
or the requesting of
good things from God."
 At an even more basic
level, a prayer is a form of
communication, a way of
talking to God or to the
saints, just as we talk to
family or friends.
 PRAYER is
COMMUNICATION
with GOD.
 When we
communicate,
we TALK and we
NEED to LISTEN.
 TYPES OF
PRAYERS
T – Thanksgiving
I – Intercession
P – Petition
A – Adoration
C - Contrition
 TYPES OF PRAYERS
T – Thanksgiving - Perhaps
the most neglected type of
prayer is a prayer of
thanksgiving. Recognizing
that God is the source of
everything. Gratitude.
 While Grace Before Meals is a
good example of a prayer of
thanksgiving, we should get into
the habit of thanking God
throughout the day for the good
things that happen to us and
others. Adding the Grace After
Meals to our regular prayers is
I – Intercession - Prayers of
intercession are another
form of prayers of petition,
but they are important
enough to be considered
their own type of prayer..
Catechism of the Catholic
Church notes (Para. 2634),
"Intercession is a prayer of
petition which leads us to pray
as Jesus did." In a prayer of
intercession, we're not
concerned with our needs but
with the needs of others.
Just as we ask the saints to
intercede for us, we, in
turn, intercede through our
prayers for our fellow
Christians, asking God to
shower His mercy on them
by answering their
A Prayer of Parents for
Their Children and these
Weekly Prayers for the
Faithful Departed are good
examples of prayers of
intercession for the needs
of others.
P – Petition Outside of the
Mass, prayers of petition are
the type of prayer with which
we are most familiar. In them,
we ask God for things we
need—primarily spiritual
needs, but physical ones as
well.
A Prayer of Parents for
Their Children and these
Weekly Prayers for the
Faithful Departed are good
examples of prayers of
intercession for the needs
of others.
Our prayers of petition
should always include a
statement of our
willingness to accept
God's Will, whether He
directly answers our
The Our Father is a good
example of a prayer of
petition, and the line "Thy will
be done" shows that, in the
end, we acknowledge that
God's plans for us are more
important than what we
A – Adoration - prayers
of adoration or worship,
we exalt the greatness
of God, and we
acknowledge our
dependence on Him in
The Mass and the other liturgies
of the Church are full of prayers
of adoration or worship, such as
the Gloria (the Glory to God).
Among private prayers, the Act of
Faith is a prayer of adoration. In
extolling the greatness of God,
we also acknowledge our own
humility;
C – Contrition – prayer
acknowledging our
sinfulness and being
sorry for the sins we
have committed against
God and our fellowmen.
BIBLICAL BASIS OF
PRAYER
St. Paul says, “Pray without
ceasing.” (1Thessalonians 5:17)
Jesus showed His love to the
Father by praying. “Rising very
early in the morning, while it was
dark, He departed and went out
to desolate place, and there He
prayed.” (Mark 1:35)
grateful for the many
blessings God has
showered us. “Every good
gift and every perfect gift
is from above, coming
down from the Father of
lights.” (James 1:17)
We pray to acknowledge
our dependence on God.
As Paul preached at the
Areopagus, “In Him we
live and move and have
our being.” (Acts 17:28)
 BASIC PRAYERS
(FORMULATED PRAYERS)
1. The Lord’s Prayer – (Our Father)
(St. Luke 11: 2 – 4) (St. Matthew 6: 9
– 13)
2. Hail Mary – (Lk. 1:28)
3. Glory be (Doxology)
4. Prayer to the Guardian Angel
5. Morning Offering
6. Act of Contrition
7. Apostles’ Creed
GIFTS OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT
 Wisdom: the gift of wisdom. For the wise
person, the wonders of nature, historical
events, and the ups and downs of our lives
take on deeper meaning. The matters of
judgment about the truth, and being able to
see the whole image of God. We see God as
our Father and other people with dignity.
 Understanding: we comprehend how we need to
live as a follower of Christ. A person with
understanding is not confused by all the
conflicting messages in our culture about the
right way to live. The gift of understanding
perfects a person's speculative reason in the
apprehension of truth. It is the gift whereby
self-evident principles are known
 Counsel (Right Judgment): With the gift of counsel/right
judgment, we know the difference between right and
wrong, and we choose to do what is right. A person with
right judgment avoids sin and lives out the values taught
by Jesus. The gift of truth that allows the person to
respond prudently, and happily to believe our Christ the
Lord
 Fortitude (Courage): With the gift of
fortitude/courage, we overcome our fear and
are willing to take risks as a follower of Jesus
Christ. A person with courage is willing to stand
up for what is right in the sight of God, even if it
means accepting rejection, verbal abuse, or
even physical harm and death.
 Knowledge: With the gift of
knowledge, we understand the
meaning of God. The gift of
knowledge is more than an
accumulation of facts.
 Piety (Reverence): With the gift of
reverence, sometimes called piety,
we have a deep sense of respect
for God and the church. we
overcome our fear and are willing
to take risks as a follower of Jesus
Christ. and comes before God with
humility, trust, and love.
 Fear of the Lord (Wonder and Awe):
With the gift of fear of the Lord we
are aware of the glory and majesty of
God. A person with wonder and awe
knows that God is the perfection of
all we desire: perfect knowledge,
perfect goodness, perfect power, and
perfect love
FRUITS OF
THE HOLY
SPIRIT
•Love / Charity
- is love, both of
God and of neighbor.
It is our love for God
above all things for
for his own sake
and our neighbor
as ourselves for
the love of God.
•Joy
is the happiness
found in union
with the Lord. As
C.S.Lewis described
it,
It is a glimpse of the
perfect happiness of
heaven that leads us
to desire heaven.
•Peace
refers to dealing justly
with the world, as well as
remaining in good
conscience before God.
•Patience
Also known as long-suffering
refers to the tendency to
endure both temptation and
suffering without it leading to
sin.
• Long suffering in doing good

is the tendency to avoid sin and

do good. This is sometimes
translated as “patience”. It is
not the patience of bearing the
burdens which life places upon
us.
• Long suffering in doing good

Rather it is the patience of

continuing to do good even
when it is hard and causes
us to suffer, and when we do
not see the fruits of our
good deeds.
•Kindness
whatever is pleasing,
desirable, useful,
lovely, valuable or
morally good.
- Goodness
-a disposition by which
one is ready to do good
to others. God
is faithful: his love and
his promises will never
be withdrawn.
•Generosity
is an openness to
-

sharing one's own gifts

and goods with others.
It is the opposite of
both gluttony and envy.
•Faithfulness
is the standing
-

strong in faith, and

strength against
diversion away from
faith and virtue.
•Gentleness
Also known as
-

mildness, is the
tendency to allow
provocations to go
unanswered.
•Self-control
is a fruit of the Spirit in that the
mastery over one's wayward desires is
not something we achieve on our own.
Rather, it comes from belonging to
Christ. Paul is speaking not of control
by the self, but of giving over control of
the self to the Spirit of Jesus.
•One who lives by the Spirit
of Christ shares also in this
quality, as also in the
gentleness characteristic of
the heart of Jesus (Matthew
11:28-29).
IMAGES OF
THE HOLY
SPIRIT