Monday, September 30, 2013

POPE FRANCIS & 'courageous prayer'

 
MORE from Pope Francis on 'Prayer'
 
(This comment appeared in the June/July 2013 issue of INSIDE THE VATICAN  -- www.insidethevatican.  It  is written by Angela Ambrogetti and appeared in an article entitled:  Homilies from the Heart ;  pp. 12-13.)  
 
 
Pope Francis is creating his own small school of prayer.   He encourages all Catholics to engage in "a courageous prayer,"  a prayer that "struggles to achieve a miracle, not prayers of courtesy.   'Ah, I will pray for you.'   I say an Our Father,  a Hail Mary, and then I forget.
 
No:   a courageous prayer, like that of Abraham, who struggled with the Lord to save a city;  like that of Moses, who held his hands high and tired himself out, praying to the Lord;  like that of many people, so many people who have faith and pray with faith."
 
 
 

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