Simple Ways to Pray

Emilie Griffin

doi:10.5771/9781461667803

Summary

In Simple Ways to Pray, Emilie Griffin offers her readers an intimate and accessible introduction to the history and practice of prayer in the Catholic tradition. Meaning both to engage the beginner and encourage the experienced, Griffin explores the different types, devotional styles and techniques of prayer as well as outlining practical strategies for starting and sustaining an interior spiritual life.

Describing prayer as "that deep urgency or longing for something beyond–something greater than ourselves," Griffin extends an open and inclusive invitation to all readers to put themselves in the presence of God. And, by doing so, to open up their hands, minds and hearts to receive the full potential of God's love and know the richness of living an engaged spiritual life. This book is ideal for individual or group use in parishes and classrooms.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2005
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-5084-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6780-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 193
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. A New Start No access
2. Why Should I Pray? No access
3. What Is Prayer? No access
4. Developing an Inner Disposition No access
5. What Holds Us Back? No access
6. Excuses We Give Ourselves No access
7. A Praying Attitude No access
8. Letting Our Defenses Down No access
9. Put Yourself in the Presence of God No access
10. How Do I Know I'm Really Praying? No access
11. God, So Quickly No access
12. Many Moods of Prayer No access
13. Mapping the Spiritual Journey No access
14. A Few Fundamentals No access
15. Examining One's Heart No access
16. Asking and Receiving No access
17. What If God Doesn't Give Us What We Ask For? No access
18. A Word about Intensity No access
1. God in Three Persons: Making the Sign of the Cross No access
2. Addressing the Father: The Our Father No access
3. Eucharistic Prayers: Eucharist as Prayer No access
4. Praying the Prefaces No access
5. Praying the Psalms No access
6. The Liturgy of the Hours No access
7. Sample Texts: The Lord's Prayer; Sample Preface; Sample Eucharistic Prayer; Excerpt from Morning Prayer; Hymn No access
1. Christ-Centered Prayer: Eucharistic Adoration No access
2. The Window in the Wall No access
3. Praising God in the Blessed Sacrament No access
4. The Sacred Heart No access
5. Icons, Images, and Stained Glass No access
6. St. Francis of Assisi and the Crucifix No access
7. Sacred Works of Art No access
8. The Way of the Cross No access
9. Sample Texts: "Adoro Te Devote"; "Coeur de Jésus Hymn"; Way of the Cross No access
1. Opening Up to the Spirit No access
2. Charismatic Prayer No access
3. Healing Prayer No access
4. Gifts of the Spirit No access
5. Sample Texts: "Veni, Creator Spiritus"; "Veni, Sancte Spiritus" No access
1. What Marian Prayer Is All About No access
2. The Nativity Scene No access
3. The Angelus No access
4. Familiar Prayers to Mary No access
5. Litany of the Blessed Virgin No access
6. Sample Texts for Marian Prayer: The Hail Mary; Hail, Holy Queen; The Lord's Prayer; Glory Be No access
1. Heavenly Intercessors No access
2. Guardian Angels No access
3. St. Michael Archangel No access
4. Interpreting Angels No access
5. Personal Devotion to Angels No access
6. Patron Saints of Nations No access
7. Nonverbal Devotion to Angels and Saints No access
8. Angels Attend a Baptism No access
9. Sample Texts: The Divine Praises No access
1. The Rationale No access
2. Humility in Prayer No access
3. Lord, Teach Us to Pray No access
4. Perseverance in Prayer No access
5. The Power of Intercession No access
6. Sample Texts for Prayer No access
1. What Is Contemplation? No access
2. Getting Used to Silence No access
3. Sweetness and Consolation No access
4. Can I Be Solitary? No access
5. Oratio, the Latin Name for Prayer No access
6. The Prayer of Recollection No access
7. The Way of the Heart (Desert Fathers and Mothers) No access
8. Lectio (Lectio Divina) No access
9. Meditatio (Meditation) No access
10. Entering into the Biblical Story No access
11. Praying with the People of the Bible No access
12. Contemplatives in Action No access
13. Effects of Contemplative Prayer No access
14. Sample Texts No access
1. Regular Prayer Times No access
2. Frequent Attendance at Mass No access
3. Small Group Participation No access
4. Spiritual Reading No access
5. Music as Prayer No access
6. Journal Keeping No access
7. Blessings and Daily Life No access
8. Common Questions about Prayer No access
9. Spiritual Direction No access
10. Prayer and the Virtuous Life No access
11. Charity and Social Concern No access
1. The Interior Life No access
2. Do I Have to Be Catholic to Pray in the Catholic Tradition? No access
3. Openness No access
4. Sample Text: Anima Christi No access
Index No access Pages 177 - 190
About the Author No access Pages 191 - 193