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The human being as ‘pray- er ’

The human being as ‘pray- er ’. Religious Education Coursework Day, 25/1/2013 Dr Fáinche Ryan, Lecturer in Systematic Theology. Fr Alec Reid. administers the last rites to a murdered British army officer who was dragged from a car and beaten to death on Mar 19, 1988 .

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The human being as ‘pray- er ’

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  1. The human being as ‘pray-er’ Religious Education Coursework Day, 25/1/2013 Dr Fáinche Ryan, Lecturer in Systematic Theology.

  2. Fr Alec Reid administers the last rites to a murdered British army officer who was dragged from a car and beaten to death on Mar 19, 1988

  3. “I’m glad you were there, and that you prayed for them.”

  4. Saints – God dwells by faith • ‘It would be outrageous for me to ask God for mercy and not grant mercy to my fellow servant.’ The Lectures on Matthew

  5. What is Prayer?

  6. What is Prayer? • ‘a raising up of one’s mind to God’ • ST II-II q.83 a.17 • ACTIVITY • In us as we move towards God

  7. What is Prayer? • Adoration • Thanksgiving • Petition • Presume not on your own strength, but trust in the grace of God

  8. What is Prayer? • An event of grace in the heart of the Church/community • Conversation – with ‘an intimate and devoted friend’ In OrationemDominicam

  9. Why do we pray? • God is concerned about us • Ask God

  10. Why do we pray? • A living hope – praying with a strength far greater than our own • Protection from evil

  11. How do we pray? • Confidence • ‘Of all things required of us when we pray confidence is great avail.’

  12. How do we pray?

  13. Our Father A Prayer of Adoration A Prayer of Asking ‘God himself taught us this prayer’

  14. Seven Petitions • Three directed solely to the glory of God • Hallowed • Kingdom • Will

  15. Seven Petitions • Four to human hope of enjoying the glory • Give us • Forgive us • As we forgive • Lead us not

  16. Our Father • ‘Prayer is offered to God not that we might make God change his mind but that we might excite in ourselves the confidence to ask… and that’s why we say Our Father.’ ST II-II q.83 a.9 ad 5

  17. Forgive Our Enemies! • ‘in evil people there are two things to be considered: the nature by which they are human, and the malice in which they are evil. Since by their nature they bear in themselves the image of God and are capable of receiving divine life, they are therefore to be loved from charity according to the nature. Their malice, however, is contrary to divine life, and it is therefore to be hated in them.’ Scriptum super librosSententiarum, Bk 3, Dist.28, a.4

  18. MalalaYousafzai: God has given me a second life

  19. The human being as ‘pray-er’ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTfs_ZcGP0A • ww.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/04/malala-yousafzai-god-second-life

  20. Religious Education Coursework Day, 25/1/2013 Dr Fáinche Ryan, Lecturer in Systematic Theology.

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