Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a censure present. We need to keep talking about prayer.

I have a good friend. He lived down in Texas. He seems like Gormley and Mike has said this. He said as Catholics

We're not often taught how to pray or taught how to repeat and I thought that is a great line

because

This is kind of true. It's like a lot of times our prayer is like okay, say your prayers, right?

Here's how you pray our Father who art in heaven. Here's how you pray. He'll marry full of grace. Here's how you pray

Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit like those are all great prayers

Jesus prayed memorized prayers. He prayed this probably prayed the Psalms every day of his life and so having memorized prayers to pray is a good thing

I think one of the reasons why is because a when Jesus was asked

He just to pray as John Tuddy's disciples. He taught them a memorized prayer the our Father be

Because so you know you've got himself giving us these words be sometimes I don't have the words and so

I just need to say God you give me the words and be able to pray the Psalms or any of those other kind of inspired prayers is

A really great gift because I can't put into words

How what I'm going through but here the psalmist did it for me or God did it through the psalmist for me and for you

But we don't necessarily know how to pray

So I'm going to give you one of the simplest tools for prayer and if you use this simple tool

I guarantee you it will transform the way that you pray it comes from a place called IPF

Which is the Institute for Priestly Formation down in

Nebraska this habit of prayer is called the pirate prayer and it's called the pirate prayer because

The initials to remind you of what to do are a are are are so our right pirate prayer are

Sorry, that was lame whenever we go into prayer

It's not a method. It's not a procedure. It's not a checklist

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