For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Pray subject by subject. Pray short specific prayers rather than save the lost, pray Lord save Moses. Allow time for silent periods as the Spirit leads; do not feel that someone always has to be praying out loud. As one person prays out loud, the others in the group pray silently in agreement for the same requests.
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Prayer Based on the Ten Commandments. Prayer Based on the Ten Commandments 1. Thou shall have no other Gods before Me. Pray that God would be worshiped above all else in our land. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Honor thy father and they mother. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shall not covet. PRAYER I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all me; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Pray to the Father in Heaven This, then, is how you should pray: Pray short specific prayers rather than save the lost, pray Lord save Moses 3. Pray in small groups 7. God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it.
Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.
Because God is the Creator and Ruler of the whole world, and because all we have we received from God. By offering Him our humble prayers, and especially by the Holy sacrifice of the Mass. In treating each commandment of the Decalogue, we will focus on those aspects of the Ten Commandments that are especially relevant in our own pursuit of sanctity. Thus in beginning with the First Commandment, which is first not only chronologically or even just logically, but theologically, absolutely speaking we may say the First Commandment synthesizes all ten.
And beginning then with the First Commandment we shall concentrate on three duties which this, primordial precept prescribes on the whole human race.
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And with particular urgency on us Christians, and even more particularly on us Catholic Christians, and with resounding emphasis on us Catholics in the modern world. The three aspects are adoration, prayer, and sacrifice. Our present meditation is on the first of these three and our plan is to ask ourselves, what else, three questions.
Why must we adore God? And then, how are we to adore our God? That is why we ask ourselves what is adoration? First, a generic definition. Adoration is the recognition with our minds of who God is and the response with our wills to this recognition. I think it is worth repeating. Adoration is therefore first that our minds recognize who God is. Recognition is more than mere knowledge.
Recognition is realized knowledge or if you wish, recognition is realization. Oh how much we can know and how little of what we know can we realize. What are we saying? Recognition is realization of who God is. I recognize who God is. He is real to me. What a pedestrian term on which everything, everything in our lives depends, everything depends on our knowing God because He is real to me. Recognizing God as realizing God means that He is no mere construct of my intellect or conclusion of my reason.
He is a reality. And of course we always capitalize the non-reality when speaking of God. Indeed, He is the first and primary, and necessary reality, without whom and except for whom, nothing else would exist. There would be no other reality, including the one reality that we so, so ardently cherish and so deeply love. This one reality is the one who if I realize does?
I realize not only that God is, I realize who God is.
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This is our principle task in life, to grow in our realization of who is God. Everything else, what a mild and cheap adjective, is secondary. I not only know about God, I know God. Even as I use this human language and crawl along with my human vocabulary, I say to myself, in speaking of God, I am groping in darkness.
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Yet, adoration is founded on our realization of who is God. So, who is God? God is the necessary being. Nothing else, nothing else need exist, only God must exist. There could not have been, to coin an adverb, primordially nothing. There must have been being. Otherwise there would not be lowercase, beings, like who? Pardon me, like us. God is infinite being. Oh, how we can twirl the syllables, and the more mathematics we know the more we know all about infinity, nonsense. God is perfect being.
He not only is intelligent. He not only is loving. He not only is powerful. In a word, God is the Creator of all things that except for Him would not even exist. If there is one aspect of our faith where we can never really say all that we believe it is in speaking about God.
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But if the realization with our minds of who God is, is the foundation of adoration we are to act on that realization. In other words we are to respond with our wills to what our minds tell us is true. It is on this level that adoration is the most fundamental duty we have in life. Fundamental not only logically, but fundamental comprehensibly. Whatever else we do that is pleasing to God, whatever else we do that will gain us our eternal destiny, you name it, it is all, everything a form of adoration, everything, everything!
So then what is this duty referring to our wills? It is the duty to respond to what we believe. We believe with the mind.
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In fact we can say this is the main reason why we have a free will. But why do we have a will? We have a will most fundamentally that we might freely choose to so direct our lives that everything we think, everything we desire, everything we do is to be an expression of our adoration of God. We will talk of this at length when we deal with the Sixth and Ninth Commandments.