PRAYER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Question 1

“to pray means to think lovingly about jesus, prayer is the souls attention that is concentrated on jesus. the more you love jesus, the better you pray.”

Answer 1

bl. charles de foucauld

Question 2

bl. charles de foucauld is best known for his

Answer 2

best known for his life of study and prayer after 1905
in the Sahara deser

Question 3

waht happened to charles in 1916?

Answer 3

charles was kidnapped and killed by his tribal raiders.

Question 4

his dead was recognizsed by

Answer 4

the church as martyrdom, leading to his beatification under pope benedict XVI

Question 5

how did jesus pray?

Answer 5

jesus learned to pray from his family and in the synagogue. yet jesus vroke through the boundaries of traditional prayer

Question 6

jesus is bothj?

Answer 6

god and man

Question 7

soem,thing spevial in jesus

Answer 7

the finding in the temoke shiws that there is something original, profund and unique in his union with the father.

Question 8

3 jesus’ life is a single prayer:

Answer 8

temptation iin the desert
selection of the apostles
passion and death

Question 9

jesus; prayer was intense:

Answer 9

he is often in solitude , especially at night

he is one with the father and the holy spirit- guiding princicple of his earthly life

Question 10

jesus also experienced intense human fear

Answer 10

when he faced daeth, yet he found strength to trust in his heavenly father

Question 11

what guyided jesus in those hours?

Answer 11

his absolute wilingness to entreust himself to the love and care of his father

Question 12

how to pray

Answer 12

entering to his boundless trust
joining in his prayer
being led by him, step by step to the father

Question 13

Jesus worked a
whole series of

Answer 13

well-attested
cures, signs and
miracles to the
lepers, the blind,
deaf-mute,
paralytic and
more

Question 14

the synagogue
official, whose
daughter was healed
by Jesus

Answer 14

jairus

Question 15

1904-1984

Answer 15

german jesuit theologian

Question 16

two parts to a prayer of petition

Answer 16

1. assurance that the prayer will be heard
2. absolute renunciation of an answer ccording to one’s own plan

Question 17

prayer is

Answer 17

ultimately self-giveiing in response to gods love. if we say fiat as mary did, god has the oppoortunity to lead his life in or life.

Question 18

mary was the

Answer 18

first christian and is the perfect model of what it is to vbe a achristian

Question 19

Why do Catholics
venerate Mary as
“Mother of God”?

Answer 19

Mary was
chosen by God to conceive and bear a son,
Jesus, who will be called Son of the Most
High.

Question 20

Mary is the

Answer 20

mother of God because she is
the mother of Jesus, the God-man.

Question 21

atheist philosopher

Answer 21

ludwig feuerbach

Question 22

french abbot

Answer 22

st. bernard of clairvaux