Chapter 4

Question 1

What is a good definition of prayer?

Answer 1

Lifting up of the mind and heart to God

Question 2

What is Communal Prayer?

Answer 2

Praying with others

Question 3

What does communal prayer do?

Answer 3

Strengthens our unity in Christ

Question 4

What did Jesus pray?

Answer 4

The traditional Jewish prayers: meal prayers, the psalms, and the Shema, the central Jewish prayer of faith in the one God

Question 5

What did Jesus practice?

Answer 5

Deep personal prayer

Question 6

What did Jesus tell his followers? Who else did he tell this to?

Answer 6

How to pray

Us

Question 7

What did Jesus tell his followers to pray?

Answer 7

The Lord’s Prayer

Question 8

What is the most important prayer of the church?

Answer 8

The Lord’s Prayer

Question 9

Who was a women of prayer?

Answer 9

Mary the Mother of the church

Question 10

Who had a listening heart?

Answer 10

Mary

Question 11

What is a listening heat?

Answer 11

A pondering heart

Question 12

What is the liturgy?

Answer 12

The public worship of the church. In its broad sense, it includes the celebration of the seven sacraments and the prayer called the liturgy of the hours.

Question 13

What is the churches greatest community prayer?

Answer 13

The mass

Question 14

What does the mass include?

Answer 14

Adoration, contrition, thanksgiving and supplication (petition)

Question 15

What are we sent to do from the mass?

Answer 15

We are sent forth to love lives of charity and justice

Question 16

What led to the practice of the liturgy of the hours?

Answer 16

When the Christians wanted to extend their worship of Jesus

Question 17

What kind of prayer is the liturgy of the hours?

Answer 17

A prayer based on readings and prayers from the mass of the day

Question 18

What does the church invite all Christians to pray?

Answer 18

The prayer of Chirstians

Question 19

What does th liturgy of the hours includes?

Answer 19

Hymns, psalms, sripture readings, petitions,, The Lords Prayer, and times of reflexive silence

Question 20

What are the three major expressions of the life of prayer?

Answer 20

Vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplative prayer

Question 21

What includes the three major expressions of the life of prayer?

Answer 21

The liturgy of the hours

Question 22

When can the liturgy of the hours be prayed?,

Answer 22

At seven “hours” or times during the day. It makes the whole day holy

Question 23

What are evening prayers called?

Answer 23

Vespers

Question 24

What did Jesus teach us?

Answer 24

To pray always

Question 25

What is important to schedule?

Answer 25

A time to each day to pray

Question 26

What is an example of a traditional prayer that Jesus prayed?

Answer 26

Shema

Question 27

What is the most important prayer of the church?

Answer 27

The Lord’s Prayer~ The our Father

Question 28

What is Mary and what is she a good example of?

Answer 28

Mother of the church

An example of a good pray-er

Question 29

What are the four types of prayer

Answer 29

Petition (supplication)
Adoration
Contrition (sorrow)
Thanksgiving

Question 30

What is liturgy of the hours?

Answer 30

Extension of praise and worship of the Eucharist into hours of the day you means of scripture, prayer, and spiritual reading~ makes the whole day holy

Question 31

How many hours does the liturgy of the hours extend?

Answer 31

Extends prayer through the day 7 hours