Prayer

You are invited to join us in regularly praying the Pray 2010 prayer set out below.

May the God of Love
draw us even closer
in our restless seeking
for the deep wisdoms
that enrich our journey.

May the Christ of Compassion
shine in our hearts
as we greet Jesus
in the smiles and cries
of those who suffer.

May the Holy Spirit
erupt in us
awakening our senses
to the beauty of our world
and the moments of grace
breaking into our lives.

Amen.

You can download the first Pray 2010 prayercard here. 

You can download the second Pray 2010 prayercard here. 
 

Pray 2010 Prayer Experiences

Some of the prayer experiences that will be offered during Pray 2010 will include:

• Celebrating the Eucharist
• Morning & Evening Prayer of the Church
• Praying the Scriptures
• Christian Meditation
• Marian Prayer
• Eucharistic Adoration
• Intercessory prayer
• Journaling Prayer
• Contemplative Prayer
• Ignatian Prayer
• Worship in Song
• Taize Prayer
• Prayer for Married Couples
• Family Prayer
• Healing Prayer
• Children's Prayer
• Walking Prayer
• Praying with the Saints
• Creative Mediums in Prayer
   

Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul...when it is practised with the whole heart, it has great power. -- Mechthild of Magdeburg

God aspires us into Himself in contemplation, and then we must be wholly His; but afterwards the Spirit of God expires us without, for the practice of love and good works. -- Jan Van Ruysbroek

Dog-tiredness is such a lovely prayer, really, if only we would recognize it as such. Sometimes I hear, "I'm so dog-tired when I get to chapel, I can't pray." But what does it matter? We don't matter. Our Lord can pray just as well through a dog-tired body and mind as through a well rested one, better perhaps. It is the same with pain and suffering of all kinds. -- Mother Maribel of Wantage

O God, Founder of the universe, help me that I may pray aright, that I may act as one worthy to be heard by you and, finally, set me free. -- St. Augustine, The Soliloquies

As for prayer, don't burden yourself with making considerations; neither your mind or mine is good at that. Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently and simply, as your heart dictates. -- Jane de Chantal, Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: Letters of Spiritual Direction

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice -- Meister Eckart

In this temple of God, in this divine dwelling place, God alone rejoices with the soul in the deepest silence. There is no reason for the intellect to stir or seek anything, for the Lord who created it wishes to give it repose here. Teresa of Avila, "The Seventh Dwelling Place,"

Those who would storm the heavenly heights by fierceness and ascetic practices deceive themselves badly. Such people carry grim hearts within themselves; they lack true humility which alone leads to the soul of God. -- Mechthild of Magdeburg

Therefore we pray to him urgently that he may do what is pleasing to him, as if he were to say: "How could you please me more than by entreating me, urgently, wisely and sincerely, to do the thing that I want to have done?" And so the soul by prayer is made of one accord with God. -- Julian of Norwich, Showings

To pray is to work, to work is to pray. -- Ancient motto of the Benedictine Order

Short prayer pierces heaven -- The Cloud of Unknowing

I am never alone. Christ is always present, always praying in me and I pray in him. -- Elizabeth of the Trinity