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Remaining HUMAN during prayer. Wisdom from a Contemplative Nun - Ruth Burrows.

LIFE - God's presence in us is our Spiritual LIFE. And here's how to feed this relationship, so that it grows in a healthy way.

Desire is at the heart of prayer. Here are 5 things to ask God for in prayer to grow in your desire.

God lives in your soul and wants to be free to make you great. Practically how to pray through Faith, Hope, and Love.

Spending TIME with God is what matters most, not getting it just right.

God's only got one purpose for you. When you find yourself fighting the wrong battles. Prayer that refocuses your life's direction.

Listening to God's voice can be tricky. Here's a simple technique that allows you to dig deeper into your perspective of God's love for you.

Are you walking away from your prayer with concrete resolutions? - Good! Are your concrete resolutions from prayer leading you to reach the vocation God is calling you to? - Hmmm, not always that easy, right?

We all struggle. We will always be struggling. Prayer should be a safe place where we bring God our weaknesses, and allow him to strengthen our weakest links.

Everyone who's running is trying to win. What sets the winners apart from the losers is thus not the fact that they have clear goals. How to pray about decisions in a way that connects with the actions that concretely lead you to become a better person.

We rush, rush, rush - and spend little time being grateful. Prayer is where we practice virtues so that we can learn to live them without effort.

We beg for healing, but God often wants to give us so much more. The example of Jesus talking to little James in Season 3, Episode 2 of "The Chosen."

Embracing weakness, as Saint Paul reminds us, is our very path toward becoming strong in and through God’s love and strength. “For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (2 Cor 12:10) The very essence of prayer reminds us that we cannot do anything on our own. That which matters most, our intimate connection with the divine, is at the same time the highest and the hardest goal to attain – indeed, the very purpose of life. And so prayer is both asking for help knowing how to relate with the infinite and putting it into practice. We both beg God to help us know, love, and serve him and actually put knowledge, love, and service into practice through our time of prayer. The result is that humility must always be present. God doesn’t ask us to go it alone; he created us weak and needy; we are supposed to rely on him so that we can successfully rely on him.

Socrates' Know Thyself. Discover what's on your heart. Like a little girl at a carnival.

Listening can change your life, but only if you're profoundly receptive and proactive, as opposed to just tolerating, hearing the words, or wanting to criticize or teach.

A practical way to pray in a way that connects with your everyday life, beyond mere words and formulas, to a deeper connection with God.

Change from Do to Be. How to confront self-perspective with God's perspective of your identity.

Prayer should teach us to live in the NOW: Awareness of God's Presence Self-Awareness: Inside and out Ongoing Discernment in Every Moment Reflecting how my Now Affects my Eternity

The difference between the 3 modes of discernment. A concrete step-by-step process for praying through ordinary decisions like career choices, investments, or whether or not to volunteer at the parish.

How to take advantage of confession and turn it into a powerful prayer experience. Turn a regular routine into a catalyst for change.

All the ways that try your faith, or require faith, or allow you to use it. Can you think of any more?

Please and Thank You are the easiest way to allow prayer and life to connect. Faith, Hope, and Love point us to be bold in our prayer and to be more aware of the giver of the gifts in our life. Needs and Haves help us to depend on our heavenly Father.

Have you ever wondered how we can relate to one God from the perspective of three different virtues? This episode explains how they converge, and how our prayer helps us to deepen in our union with God today. Oh, bridges and skyscrapers too!

This episode provides practical pointers that include the physical aspects that surround our time of prayer, and the motivations behind spending time with God. Beginning well, paying attention to external elements, and being aware of God's presence are ways to give ourselves an edge.

Do you love God? ... that's not easy to answer. Do you desire peace? ... Oh yes, absolutely! Often, focusing in prayer on our deep desires for God can help us seek and find him in our lives.

The Analogy of the Mountain, which connects past and future into your present moment. We recognize that we only have NOW. It's impossible to be a saint in the past or the future.

The more we can focus on heaven, the better we will live. Being aware of being a spiritual, eternal being, helps us keep our focus on what matters most.

We spend our lives running after greatness, only to fall short. There is no greatness outside of God. There is no success, no purpose, no ideal, no reason. To live in God is why you were created. Following his lead, his love and his rewards alone can fill your deepest yearning for happiness.

Plática 30 Nov 2023. Aprendiendo a depender del Espìritu Santo. Sobre el base de las virtudes y el Sacramento del Bautismo.

Prayer, Virtue, and Purification - They all have it! Normal spiritual maturity requires it. Does the Catholic Prayer Journal account for people being on different levels in their journey?

The third spiritual principle. Babies don't know about God. Three moments when we ask WHY.

Principle #2: Prayer should change you into a better YOU! How we grow in prayer over time, relying more on God. Signs of genuine prayer are increased patience, joy, and generosity.

I encourage you to get started. What if someone broke into my house? How to measure your success.

We explore our humanity and the invitation to speak with God according to how He created us. Highlighting our ability to Feel, to Think, and to Choose. How God wants to enter into a Relationship of love.

This is a quick "letter to you, the future saint" We talk briefly about the history of this project and explain our main objectives.

The reasons we don't pray or why we struggle in prayer. A story about a rosary at breakneck speed. What we need to get right if we're to pray well.

How prayer must connect with our life. A belief that is essential. The importance of getting the principles right. A story about increasing my vertical jump!

I hold my Catholic Prayer Journal in my hands, explain what it means to me, and describe a few of the sections. This podcast will delve deeper into how to pray using a prayer journal.