Rved midterms  Dealing with satan and demons (putting on the

full armor) & (binding and loosing)

Prayer
5. Prayers of Agreement (Corporate Prayer)
Talking with God
6. Watch and Pray (Continual state of awareness
 Prayer is our direct line with heaven as a watchman on the wall)
 Prayer is a communication process that allows 7. Prayer of thanksgiving (Count your blessings
us to talk to God name them one by one)

What exactly is prayer?

- It is a way of relating to God, to ourselves, to those Love of the Cross

around us…For some, action is their gateway to praying,
Scripture Text:
helping those in need, getting on with their daily work,
or chores can be a way of putting every moment into Mark 14:32-42 Agony in the Garden
the presence of God.
Mark 14:26-31 Peter’s Denials
What is prayer in the Bible?
Mark 15:33-47 Jesus’ Death and Burial
- Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an evolving means of
Phil. 3:10-11 “...to spare his sufferings by
interacting with God, most frequently through a
reproducing the patterns of His death.”
spontaneous, individual, unorganized form of
petitioning and/or thanking. In these instances, such as
with Isaac, Moses, Samuel, and job, the act of praying is
method of changing a situation for the better. What is the symbol of LOVE?

Four forms / major types of prayer

1. Adoration: Praising God Why do cross symbolizes LOVE?

To adore god is to worship God for who he is and not

only for what he does. In adoration you verbalize your
worship, praise, honor, and exaltation of God. Many of
the psalms can help us to focus on the attributes of
God, such as his loving kindness, his mercy, and his
majesty. Adoration is an expression of love and trust.
2. Contrition - Asking for God’s forgiveness
3. Thanksgiving - showing God gratitude
4. Petition / Supplication - asking god for a favor.
Seven types of Prayer:
1. Communion- means sharing (All day all the
time)
2. Supplication (Lifting up your needs)
3. Intercession (On behalf of others)
4. Spriritual warfare
There are two types:
 Dealing with yourself (your mind is the
battlefield) & (repentance and forgiveness)
The greatest love of all.
Made known upon the Cross.
Christ Jesus crucified.
Jesus Christ shed His blood for us.
Jesus wasn’t forced to die. He wasn’t overpowered,
outnumbered, or tricked into it. He chose the Cross
because He loves you and me. Jesus’ passionate love for
us took Him to the Cross - with pain, humiliation, and
complete separation from Christ.
Throughout our lives, we have opportunities to show
God that we love Him. We do these things not to earn
His love but in response to His unconditional,
unstoppable love. Because our hearts burn with
thesame kind of passion that lives in Him. So, activate
that passion in your life today. —— Worship Him
passionately. Seek Him first. Share His love with your
family. Reach out to others. Let’s turn our lives, our
families, our communities, and the world around for
Jesus!
Christ died for sinners. Not for the good and worthy -
but the lost and perishing; He lay down His precious life.
The vertical beam of the Cross is love for God; the
horizontal beam is our love for neighbor. To be His
disciple, then, is not an exercise of merely “offering up
my suffering”. It is to love as He loved us. (It is to
clothe the naked, give bread to the hungry, pray for our
enemies, forgive those who hurt us, wash the dishes,
sweep the floor and to serve all those around us as if
they were Christ Hinself.)
So when you wake up each day to “carry your cross”,
the focus should not be on your own suffering but on
others. Think to yourself how you can love and serve
that day - even if it’s only by your spouse or young
children, even if it’s only by prayer as you lay sick in
bed. This is the Cross, for the Cross is Love.
Love is the Cross which we must carry, and to the extent
that the sin of others and our own sinfulness pervades,
it will bring the weight, coarseness, thorns and nails of
pain, suffering, humiliation, loneliness,
misunderstanding, mockery, and persecution.
But in the next life, that Cross of Love will become for
you the Tree of Life from which you will reap the fruit
of joy and peace for all eternity. And Jesus Himself will
wipe away every one of your tears.
St Francis of Assisi asked of God two things before he
died: that he might experience the pain that Jesus
experienced on the Cross and that he might experience
the love with which Jesus gave His life for the world.
When St. Francis contemplated the Crucifixion he used
to weep, lamenting that, “Love is not loved.” After his
conversion, Francis modeled the Friars’ habit according
to the pattern of the Cross. Finally, near the end of his
life, Francis himself was imprinted with the marks of the
Cross, the stigmata, on his hands, feet and side.
St. Francis saw in the Cross the humble, self-emptying
love of God for the sake of his creatures. Throughout his
entire life, he never ceased to contemplate this
marvelous mystery. He had one desire in everything, to
be conformed to the Cross of Jesus Christ.
Have you ever asked yourself whether God really loves
you?
And considered how you can know with certainty that
he does? Current racial, political, and international
turmoil swirling throughout the world might cause
some to ask, “If God does love us, how do we know?”
St. Mary Euphrasia experienced so many crosses and
tribulations during her life but, she accepted them for
the glory of God and the salvation of souls. “Embrace
the crosses you will meet, don’t fear them. Great works
take their rise in the midst of all sorts of trial and labors.
A Religious of the Good Shepherd never says it is
enough... CROSSES are a great prelude to great graces.
St. John Eudes too, endured much from all sorts of
groups, but these crosses never stopped him from
working with great zeal to follow the will of God.
St. John Eudes and St. Mary Euphrasia suffered much
from friends.
- Did you ever experience a similar cross?
What is your attitude towards crosses? Fear?
Avoidance? Welcome? Resignation? Embrace it for the
love of Jesus?
- Have you ever asked yourself whether God really
loves you?

- “If God does loves us, how do we know?”

- Did you ever experience a similar cross?

- What is your attitude towards crosses? Fear?

Avoidance? Welcome? Resignation? Embrace it for the
love of Jesus?

“Kenosis” is derived from the Greek word “kenoo”

which means to empty.

The word “kenosis” has entered theological language

from Philippians 2:7, where in the sentence “emptied
himself” the Greek verb is ekenosen.

“Kenosis”, then, the corresponding noun, has become a

technical term for the humiliation of the son in the
incarnation.

For St. John Eudes the condition of emptying means

nothingness, abnegation, detachment and debasement.

Emptying implies DYING to self, a kenotic phase… It can

be effective only when it’s accompanied by
detachment.

For St. John Eudes our life must be a continuation and

fulfillment of Jesus’ life on earth.

St. Paul expresses this clearly in Philippian and

Galatians. “It is no longer I who live but Christ living on
me.”