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Hey there, it's Browns. Today is Friday, April 12th, 2019, and we are still in the fifth week of

Lent. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been learning about prayer from our guide

and our teacher, Jesus Christ. We have learned that prayer is simple. It's simply coming into the

presence of God that we can do at any moment. We've also learned from Jesus that we should pray first,

that we should value recited prayers and commit especially the Our Father, which he taught us to memory and to pray it from

the depths of our heart. We've also learned that Jesus used scripture a lot when he was praying

and facing temptation. Therefore, we should read the Bible, know the Bible, and even have a few verses memorized.

Finally, yesterday, we looked at the agony in the garden, and we thought about how we should

allow God to enter into the pain with us too. We shouldn't just bring our petitions to him,

but we should pour our heart out to him.

Today, we are going to look at the biggest, most perfect form of prayer that we get to celebrate

at least once a week, and that is the Mass. Now, there is a lot, a lot that we could say about the Mass and that I could never possibly

cover in one Catholic Spouts episode.

So we are going to look at just a couple of things.

First of all, realize, my friends, that the Eucharist, the highest point of the mass, is something

directly instituted and taught by Jesus Christ. Throughout his whole life, he taught us a lot

about prayer, and he gave us the Our Father. He also gave us the Eucharist. Now, a lot of the types of

prayer that we have been talking about this week are done in the private. Some of them are even done

in the depths of our heart. They don't even have words that go along with them. The mass is different.

The mass is what we call communal prayer, meaning we do it as a community, as a group.

There are certain people that have to be there for us to celebrate the mass.

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