Prayer and Worship

Question 1

is a loving, conscious, personal relationship with God, our all-loving, good Father, who has adopted us through His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit.

Answer 1

Christian prayer

Question 2

intimate conversation with God who we know loves us

Answer 2

prayer

Question 3

who brings us into this life of communion and fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ

Answer 3

Holy Spirit

Question 4

Authentic Christian prayer, then, is always _______________, since it is through Christ that “we have access in one Spirit to the Father”

Answer 4

Trinitarian

Question 5

develops a conscious awareness of our relationship with God

Answer 5

Prayer

Question 6

is an effort to recognize the presence of God in our life. It is an attempt to establish conscious contact with God, to attend to God, to enter into a personal relationship with God.

Answer 6

Prayer

Question 7

is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God

Answer 7

Prayer

Question 8

Forms of Prayer

Answer 8

Personal Prayer
Public/Communal Prayer

Question 9

It is spending time alone with God.

Answer 9

Personal Prayer

Question 10

Personal prayer can be in a form of:

Answer 10

1. Meditation
2. Contemplation
3. Conversation

Question 11

Awareness of God’s presence in the midst of life; the water, the clouds, the stars, the rolling waves, the forest, fields of grain, music, rhythm of poetry.

Answer 11

Meditation

Question 12

we focus on the universe and our place in it. Then our mind is raised to God, for God is the only answer to the mystery that we meditate upon.

Answer 12

Meditation

Question 13

It means “marvelling at what God must be like.”

Answer 13

Contemplation

Question 14

It means focusing our attention on God and not on ourselves, turning Godward, not self-ward. We allow the idea and experience of God to take hold of us so that we are “spellbound.

Answer 14

Contemplation

Question 15

we remain quietly in the presence of God and allow the Holy Spirit to play in us. We listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit not with our ears but with the depths of our hearts

Answer 15

Contemplation

Question 16

Contemplation is often practiced by the

Answer 16

mystics

Question 17

Here, we speak to God, either with actual words formed by the lips or with the words formed in the heart

Answer 17

Conversation

Question 18

we just do not speak, we also listen for part of our conversation with God involves listening to God in the depths of our heart. Prayer is not a monologue

Answer 18

Conversation

Question 19

It is not enough to pray privately or alone. We are also a Church, a community gathered in the name of the Lord. The Whole Church must pray. Like private prayer, public worship is also a tradition in the church, it is an essential aspect of the church’s life. Prayer with the community is not an option for believing Christians, it is a necessity and an obligation.

Answer 19

Public/Communal Prayer

Question 20

Types of Prayer

Answer 20

Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication and Offering

Question 21

It means true worship of God for what he is in himself, not merely for what God do for us.

Answer 21

Adoration

Question 22

It means recognizing and accepting the infinite difference between god and every creature.

Answer 22

Adoration

Question 23

It is a rejoicing in God’s sanctity and glory as we acclaim “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts”

Answer 23

Adoration

Question 24

It is an expression of sorrow for our sins.

Answer 24

Contrition

Question 25

It involves our consciousness of having failed to live up to the promises we made at our baptism

Answer 25

Contrition

Question 26

It expresses our need to say “I’m sorry” and seek conversion with the help of God’s grace.

Answer 26

Contrition

Question 27

To pray because we are sorry is to recognize and accept the mystery of God’s mercy and compassion, a mercy that reaches out to us in every circumstance no matter what we have done

Answer 27

Contrition

Question 28

Praying to thank God for His goodness to us is one of the great characteristics of the prayer of the Church.

Answer 28

Thanksgiving

Question 29

is the celebration of the great prayer of thanksgiving.

Answer 29

The Eucharist

Question 30

is a part of our relationship with God just like in our human relationships.

Answer 30

Thanksgiving

Question 31

From the Latin supplere, “to beg, to ask insistently”

Answer 31

Supplication

Question 32

The most frequent form of prayer and is also called the prayer of petition.

Answer 32

Supplication

Question 33

The most frequent form of prayer and is also called the prayer of petition.We ask God for what we need because we know that God loves us and is concerned about us, and He is a God of compassion.

Answer 33

Supplication

Question 34

It’s always a good thing to start the day with a prayer of offering; it’s the best thing we can give God first thing of the day.

Answer 34

Offering

Question 35

ecessarily includes both an inner attitude of reverence and homage before the Divine Majesty, and an outward expression in signs of words, actions, songs, dances, usually enacted in public ritual

Answer 35

Authentic worship

Question 36

includes both secular and religious ceremonies. It is basically a social, programmed symbolic activity that has power for creating, communicating, criticizing and even transforming the basic meaning of community life.

Answer 36

Ritual

Question 37

Then there is the famous incident when his apostles, obviously impressed by his prayerfulness, asked him to teach them how to pray. He taught them that most basic of all Christian prayers, the ____________

Answer 37

Our Father