How do i pray?

This is it OP. Also, Thomas Merton wrote a very slim book on contemplative prayer that's worth picking up.

Not gonna get better advice than this OP.

1. go to church
2. watch
3. learn
4. repeat 1-3

you are a church user

oy vey

>not posting the superior version

Our Father in heaven
May your name be hallowed
May your kingdom come
May your will be done
as in heaven, so upon earth
Give us today our sufficient bread
and forgive us our debts
as we also have forgiven our debtors
And bring us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil

>not posting the superior version

Pater noster, qui es in caelis:
sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie.
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in temptationem,
sed libera nos a malo.
Quia tuum est regnum et potestas et gloria
in saecula.
Amen.

learn this by heart and chant it like this
youtube.com/watch?v=1hWE52zsOaA

Along with Our Fathers and Hail Mary's, speak to God like he's your father. Read the Psalms how David bore everything in front of the Lord. Tell the everything that is hurting you, bothering you, but most of all thank him and profess your love to him. Ask him to feel his love.

>When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do

Why do Protestants so frequently get BTFO by the Scriptures they claim to love?

The Merton Prayer
Author: Thomas Merton

My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation is a *wonderful* book, as is his autobiography, The Seven-Story Mountain, the latter with much discussion of Merton's groping efforts to learn to pray, the former illustrating the profound fruit of Merton's prayer after he had been for some years a monk.

Try reading Psalm 25. I like the NASB translation:

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm 25

Here's a short talk addressing Augustine's approach to prayer:

clarepriory.org.uk/foa/augustineonprayer.pdf

Flannery O'Connor kept a prayer journal in 1946 (age 21). Here are some excerpts:

newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/16/my-dear-god

B. Dylan's "Thoughts on Woody Guthrie" is a kind of prayer, especially towards the end.

Transcribed here: bobdylan.com/songs/last-thoughts-woody-guthrie/

Spoken here: youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OdNY8Aybw

The Catholic priest Fulton Sheen explains prayer here: youtube.com/watch?v=1uBQ9M4IFAg

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Ask and you shall receive.

>If you have to ask you've already failed

This is patently false.

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Kek I was just thinking about how my proddy friends tend to just word vomit prayer

I hope you fellas are not Deus Vult idiots who glorify the crusades

Has no one seriously posted the proper version?

Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

No, I am not a Deus Vult poster. I understand the crusades are a very nuanced topic.
Why did you bring up the crusades when I was talking about prayer?

Ignore other people than this guy and also memorize some psalms.

disgusting church latin
those c's should hard, not ch

When every breath is a prayer.

That's not right user. Don't you know you need secret gnosis to pray? Commoners can't do it.

I don't understand what prayer is. Repeating some stock phrases over and over? For what purpose? Surely an omnipotent god already knows your needs. Surely if god has some divine plan, he's not going to change it up because you asked nicely.

what is it you long for, truly? what non material thing can you not live without? ask for that, it will whet your appetite which will propel you to learn and gain knowledge where you can, and with that comes growth and most importantly patience and resilience, you'll notice you'll whine much less if at all

With sincerity.

testing to see if you're /pol/

>what non material thing can you not live without?
I can think of nothing.

Whatever your prayer, you must say it aloud or write it down. You can not pray properly keeping it inside.

I usually keep my prayers short and sweet and pray in whispers. e.g.

"Lord, I pray that you will protect everyone close to me including me from any evil or harm. Bless us with your presence in our everyday life. Amen."

Wrong!

No, you're wrong. You can do it in private but it must be spoken or written into existence.

I already named some for you user. Patience, resilience, even compassion, hope etc. Number one reason were here is to love and to be loved. Without love life cannot be sustained. It becomes dreary, bleak, morbid. God is Love. Ask him to become a part of your life and that you seek a relationship with him. Try it. What's the worse that could happen, for a moment you forget about your misery?

Much of what God asks us to do is for our benefit, not His. God already knows what we want, but He wants us to ask for it anyway. God wants us to confront our desires, examine them before the Christian faith, see if they're truly worth asking Him about in light of the divine plan.

>sufficient bread

i fucking vomited

face down ass up
that's the way Allah likes to fuck