Teaching Catholics to pray should be a snap because we use so many prayer postures week after week. We genuflect, cross ourselves, kneel, bow, and strike our breasts. But somehow the phrase “teaching prayer” makes us feel uptight, and we think “memorization.” The “enthusiasm and joy” that the Pope asks of us during this Year of Faith disappears. “Faith grows when it is lived as an experience of love received and when it is communicated as an experience of grace and joy,” he says (Porta Fidei, n. 7).Continue reading "Teaching Prayer in the Year of Faith"
