2024 - Year of Prayer

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Year of Prayer – 2024

After the year devoted to reflecting on the documents and studying the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis has proposed that 2024 should be marked as a year dedicated to prayer. In preparation for the Jubilee, dioceses are invited to promote initiatives to remind people of the centrality of both individual prayer and community prayer. One idea might be for “pilgrimages of prayer” to be organised at a diocesan level – these would be effectively courses or ‘schools of prayer’ with monthly or weekly meetings, presided over by the local bishops, but open to the entire People of God. In addition, to help mark this year more fruitfully, the Dicastery for Evangelisation will publish a series of “Prayer Notebooks”, with material taken from the many forms of prayer to be found in the rich Catholic tradition.

 

"Prayer Reflections"

 

 

1.     PRAYER TODAY: A CHALLENGE TO OVERCOME
Preface: Pope Francis
By Angelo Comastri

 

4.     PRAYING WITH SAINTS AND SINNERS
By Paul Brendan Murray

 

7.      THE PRAYER OF MARY AND THE SAINTS
By Catherine Aubin

 

2.      PRAYING WITH THE PSALMS
By Gianfranco Ravasi

 

3.      THE PRAYER OF JESUS
By Juan Lopez Vergara

 

5.      PARABLES ON PRAYER
By Antonio Pitta

 

6.      THE CHURCH IN PRAYER
By a monk

 

8.      THE PRAYER JESUS TAUGHT US: THE "OUR FATHER"
By Ugo Vanni