prayer and worship

• Prayer is a way of life, a need to praise and worship God, and a discipline to help us concentrate on the power of the holy and intensify our sense of the presence of the holy.
• Liturgical renewal should restore the appreciation of the Eucharist as the source and summit of the whole Christian life.
• Silence, devotional readings, set prayers, the rosary, bodily postures and attitudes, music, and works of art, including the icons, observed whether public or private, serve to help the worshipper to concentrate his apprehension of the power of the holy and to intensify his sense of the presence of the holy.
• Prayer is a form of praise and worship, a way of life, a discipline to help us concentrate on the power of the holy and intensify our sense of the presence of the holy.
• Prayer can be observed through silence, devotional readings, set prayers, the rosary, bodily postures and attitudes, music, and works of art, including the icons, observed whether public or private.
• Prayer is a discipline to help us concentrate on the power of the holy and intensify our sense of the presence of the holy.
• Prayer is a need to praise and worship God, a discipline to help us concentrate on the power of the holy and intensify our sense of the presence of the holy.
• Prayer is a way of life, a need to praise and worship God, a discipline to help us concentrate on the power of the holy and intensify our sense of the presence of the holy.
• Reflection in prayer involves God speaking to us through logos, the written scripture and through rhema, God’s personal inspiration.
• Perseverance in prayer is necessary for spiritual growth, as our attitude towards prayer dictates the altitude of our spiritual life.
• Sacraments must be celebrated as sacraments of faith, participants should know the meaning of the sacrament they are about to receive.
• We must learn to live out the liturgy, prayer opens us up to God so that we may do his deeds by becoming instruments of the Spirit that leads us to bring healing and transformation to the whole nation.
• Attunement in prayer means tuning our lives to His will and “Being the change you want to see in the world” (Gandhi).
• Pastors and lay faithful have to be educated to see in this sacrament an encounter with the Lord who reconciles us to himself and to his people.
• Rituals are designed to be repeated, using traditional prayers and actions that link the celebrants with their past and the original religious event that the ritual is celebrating (remembrance).
• Jesus’ transfiguration (Mt 17: 1-8) teaches us many ways that prayer transforms us into His likeness as presented in the acronym P-R-A-Y.
• Prayer transforms us into Christ’s likeness, with grace being enabling power.
• Rituals are symbolic, using natural signs to make present the divine; they involve a certain consecration which enables the participants to share in the divine power/love.
• Our Catholic religion still has to be Christ-centered, in our popular religious practices, our attitude has to be of critical respect, encouragement and renewal, must lead us to the liturgy, vitally related to Filipino life, and serve the cause of full human development, justice, peace and the integrity of Creation.
• Authentic worship necessarily includes both an inner attitude of reverence and homage before the Divine Majesty, and an outward expression in signs of words, actions, songs, dances, usually enacted in public ritual.
• Authentic worship means doing good and rendering justice to the poor, the widow and orphan (cf Is 1:11-17; 58:1-10; Amos 5:21-24).
• True worship consists not in words on the lips but in deeds from the heart.
• Private, personal prayer includes standing before God as an adopted son/daughter, examples being the rosary, novenas, devotions to patron saints, meditations, etc.
• These traits are found in many traditional tribal rituals.
• Public, communal liturgical prayer is performed as members of Christ’s body, communal.
• Prayer is a conscious, deliberate act of the will that seeks to discern and follow the movements of the Holy Spirit, and is open to personal growth through a constant "letting go" which allows another to "tie you fast and carry you off against your will" (Jn 21:18; cf NCDP 322).
• Acts of worship serve to unite, temporarily at least, the ordinary and the transcendent realms through one or more of a variety of possible means.
• The performance of acts of worship rests upon the assumption that there is a realm of being that transcends the ordinary “world” of the worshipper.
• Yielding in prayer means the more we pray the more we should bring out what we prayed about in the world.
• Prayer is a way of life, a need to praise and worship God, and a means to communicate with God.
• Liturgical renewal should restore the appreciation of the Eucharist as the source and summit of the whole Christian life.
• Silence, devotional readings, set prayers, the rosary, bodily postures and attitudes, music, and works of art, including the icons, observed whether public or private, serve to help the worshipper to concentrate his apprehension of the power of the holy and to intensify his sense of the presence of the holy.
• God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and truth.
• John 4: 23-24
• True worship consists not in words on the lips but in deeds from the heart.
• Includes both secular (graduation, inauguration) and religious ceremonies (feasts of Christmas and Holy Week, fiestas, processions).
• In our popular religious practices, our attitude has to be of critical respect, encouragement and renewal, must lead us to the liturgy, vitally related to Filipino life, and serve the cause of full human development, justice, peace and the integrity of Creation.
• Rituals are symbolic, using natural signs to make present the divine; they involve a certain consecration which enables the participants to share in the divine power/love.
• We must learn to live out the liturgy.
• The performance of acts of worship rests upon the assumption that there is a realm of being that transcends the ordinary “world” of the worshipper.