Prayer 
Family & Intergenerational Learning Programs

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Learning Programs

All Are Called to Pray
​This session explores the Christian call to prayer, what prayer is, the importance of prayer in our lives as disciples, and some of the rich paths of prayer that enable us to spend time with Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit. We profess the mystery of our faith in the Apostles' Creed or Nicaean Creed and celebrate it when we gather for liturgy, so that our lives may be conformed to Christ in the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father. This mystery requires that the faithful believe in it, that they celebrate it, and that they have a living and personal relationship with the one true God. This relationship can be called prayer. 

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The Lord's Prayer
This session explores the Lord’s Prayer as the perfect prayer for disciples of Jesus. We will study what the prayer requests of God, the Scriptural basis for the prayer, and ways to connect the Lord’s Prayer to our own lives. The prayer to Our Father is at the center of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel, and is central to our prayer lives as disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Praying through Advent and Christmas 
This session explores how to pray during the Advent and Christmas seasons. In her consent to the angel Gabriel, "let it be with me according to your word" (Luke 1:38), Mary models for us the way to humbly respond in prayer to God's initiative in our lives. The Canticle of Mary, or the Magnificat, was her prayer of cooperating with the Father's plan of loving salvation.

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Praying through Lent and Easter 
This session explores how to pray during the Lent and Easter seasons. No other season or feast throughout the year calls for deeper, more heartfelt prayer than Lent and the Easter season. Lent calls us to pray as Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, offering humble obedience to the will of the Father. And the Easter season calls each of us to prayerfully consider how to fulfill our baptismal promise of discipleship.

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Catholic Prayers and Devotions
This session focuses on treasured and traditional forms of Catholic prayer and devotion. The Catholic Church has a rich tradition of prayer, including Eucharistic adoration, Liturgy of the Hours, novenas, and prayers to patron saints. All of these prayer paths lead us to intimate communion with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit and all call us to be Christ-like in the world.

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Praying the Rosary
This session explores the Rosary as a devotion of the Catholic Church. We will look at how to pray the Rosary, the Scriptural basis for the mysteries, and ways to connect the Rosary to our lives. 

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Practice of Prayer
Use these prayer activities in the learning program and/or as continuing learning for individuals and families.

1. Prayer in My Life Today
2. Prayer is. . . .
3. Prayer is Relationship with God.
4. Prayer is Opening Our Lives to God.
5. Prayer is Being Changed by God.
6. Prayer is Being Attentive to God and Others.
7. Prayer is Living.
8. Prayer Takes Practice
9. Preparing to Pray
10. Contemplative Prayer Experience 
11. Centering Prayer Experience 
12. Scripture Prayer Experience #1: Reflective Reading
13. Scripture Prayer Experience #2: Imaginative Prayer 
14. Scripture Prayer Experience #3: Lectio Divina
15. Scripture Prayer Experience #4: Visio Divina
16. Scripture Prayer Experience #5: The Psalms 
17. Intercessory Prayer Experience & Intercessory Prayer at Home
18. Praise Prayer Experience #1: Psalm 103
19. Praise Prayer Experience #2: Psalm 95 & Prayers of Praise at Home
20. Thanksgiving Prayer Experience & Prayers of  Thanksgiving at Home 
21. Online Daily Prayer Experiences 
22. Praying through the Day Experiences
23. Closing the Day: The Prayer of Examen Experience 
24. Praying in Families with Children & Prayer Activities for Children

Prayer Activities

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Children's Prayer Activities

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Video Resources on Prayer

The family and intergenerational sessions do not include video content. You can easily integrate video presentations into the learning sessions to substitute for presentations by the leaders or for reading activities. For video resources on Prayer go to the Lifelong Faith Studio. Check out videos for children, adolescents, adults, and families. 

• Go to Prayer Resources: www.lifelongfaithstudio.com/prayer--spiritual-life.html​

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Online Activities on Prayer

For a list of curated resources of learning activities for all ages, videos, and family activities go the the Lifelong Faith Studio.

• Go to Prayer Resources: www.lifelongfaithstudio.com/prayer--spiritual-life.html​​