Thursday, September 17, 2020 – For our last FORM OF PRAYER, we will be talking about PRAISE. If you remember a few days ago, we had a lovely discussion about blessing and adoration, and there was a crazy tangent by yours truly about a nutty definition found on the website of the Cathedral for my Read More
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Day 184 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part VIII)
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 – For me, today’s FORM OF PRAYER is probably the easiest to understand. We will be covering prayers of THANKSGIVING. Simply put, prayers of thanksgiving is when you thank God for all the good things He does for you, and I mean everything! All the great things that happen in your Read More
Day 183 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part VII)
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Yesterday we talked about prayers of petition and that they are asking God for forgiveness and help. Today we will focus on a form of prayer that is a petition but is also separated out into its own category: INTERCESSION. Why is it separated out? Probably because this form of Read More
Day 182 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part VI)
Monday, September 14, 2020 – Happy Monday! Welcome back to the beginning of week 27 of our pandemic learning series. I am your hostess and teacher, Mrs. Flusche, and I am slowly losing my mind… Anyhoo, back to our FORMS OF PRAYER. Today we will be talking about PETITION, or as it is known in Read More
Day 181 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part V)
Sunday, September 13, 2020 – Howdy, campers! Welcome back! Yesterday we finished up our expressions of prayer, and today we are moving into our FORMS OF PRAYER, beginning with BLESSING and ADORATION. I am covering this one first because that is the order in the Catechism, but also because it goes really (I mean REALLY) Read More
Day 180 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part IV)
Saturday, September 12, 2020 – Today we cover the last of our three expressions of prayer CONTEMPLATIVE (INTERNAL) PRAYER. This is probably the most difficult of the three to understand because it not saying prayers (vocal) or thinking about God’s Truth (meditative). The absolute shortest definition of contemplative prayer is simply being with God. Or, Read More
Day 179 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part III)
Friday, September 11, 2020 – Oh good! You’re back for more of our Super Basic Primer on Prayer! Woot! Today and tomorrow we will be covering INTERNAL PRAYER. Today’s topic is MEDITATIVE prayer, and tomorrow we will cover contemplative prayer. For the record, our older sources do not separate out meditative vs. contemplative prayer, but Read More
Day 178 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part II)
Thursday, September 10, 2020 – Today we are going to start with probably the easiest of our prayer primers: VOCAL (EXTERNAL) PRAYER. Remember, we are starting with our “expressions of prayer.” By “expression” we mean the **how** we pray vs. the types of prayer we will cover later. On its face, VOCAL prayer is exactly Read More
Day 177 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on Types of Prayer (Part I)
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 – A lot of Catholics have trouble with prayer: what is it? How do you do it? Why do we need it? Etc. Well, the “why” we covered a few days ago (Friday, September 4, 2020) when we talked about the Three Eminent Good Works. For that not-so-in-depth exposé, see: Mrs. Read More
Day 174 – Mrs. Flusche’s Super Basic Primer on the Three Eminent Good Works (Part IV)
Sunday, September 6, 2020 – And for our final of the THREE EMINENT GOOD WORKS…I bring you ALMSGIVING (AKA ELEEMOSYNA). On the face, this seems like the easiest of the three, but it is way more than a mantra of “give to the poor” or the three Hebrew tithes. Side note: the third Hebrew tithe Read More
