The Deep Breath of Prayer (Part 1 on Prayer)

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Do we depend on God as much as we depend on oxygen? In the first installment of this two-part miniseries, Dr. Sri shares basic principles of how to prepare our hearts for prayer in order to fully receive what God desires to give to us.

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If we realize how important daily prayer is, we are going to make it a top priority no matter the circumstances.
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.0	Do you have a desire on your heart to go deeper with God in prayer?
0:17.7	Do you sense that God may be inviting you to develop a stronger friendship with Him in
0:23.0	your interior life and your prayer life?
0:25.0	He's inviting you to pray every day to really make that a priority to be consistent.
0:31.6	And by prayer, I'm talking about here more than just saying prayers like the our Father,
0:35.3	Hail Mary, Glory be, or devotions like the Rosary or the Divine Mercy Chapel.
0:39.5	These are all good, important to have as a part of our spiritual life, but I'm talking
0:43.6	about a deeper conversation with the Lord.
0:47.4	Do you know how to have a deep conversation with God?
0:50.7	When I'm talking about daily prayer, I'm talking here more than just listening to prayers.
0:55.3	You know, I know today there's a lot of great online resources and apps that can help us with prayer,
0:59.9	but I'm talking about something more than that.
1:02.5	I'm talking about meeting God, meeting God whether in the chapel or at home, but meeting Him in your heart.
1:09.8	Sometimes when I'm traveling, I'll meet people and we talk about prayer.
1:12.5	I'm often presenting on prayer at parish conferences and things like that.
1:15.5	And I'll meet people and ask them about their prayer life and what their struggles are,
1:19.9	what I pick up on is there's a lot of Catholics out there that say,
1:22.7	oh, yeah, I pray when I'm in the car.
1:24.7	I pray while I'm listening to a podcast, yeah, that's my prayer.
1:27.5	Or I pray when I'm listening to Catholic radio or I like listening to prayers online.
1:32.4	And again, this is all good.
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