Small Lived Experiences of the Faith
Based on Signs of Life by Scott Hahn

This Week's Focus:
January 24 (3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Theme:  Prayers of Aspiration & Mental Prayer
Chapters in the Book:  12 & 37 (pages 89-94 & 238-241)  

Sunday Readings:  ENGLISH     SPANISH

Tami Maurer, Coordinator of Religious Education
Grades K-2
Video:  Why Do We Pray?
Activity & Craft:  Prayer Garden

Grades 3-5
Video:  God's Story:  Prayer
Activity & Craft:  Prayer Journal

Grades 6-8
Video:  Ignite Your Catholic Faith - What Is Prayer?

Chad Grube, Director of Adult Faith Formation & Evangelization

"Remember: the value of mental prayer is not measured by how many things we do. On the contrary: the closer prayer comes to that simple act of love, the more it is worth. Normally, too, prayer becomes more simple the further we progress in the spiritual life."

            -- Fr. Jacques Philippe in Time for God

Resources

• Resources on FORMED
  • Lectio:  Prayer Finding Intimacy with God with Dr. Tim Gray
  • ECHO - God Calls Us to Pray with Bishop Donald Hying
  • Prayer:  A Surge of the Heart
  • Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft (AUDIOBOOK)
  • Prayer for Beginners by Peter Kreeft (EBOOK)
  • Deep Conversion/Deep Prayer by Fr. Thomas Dubay (AUDIOBOOK)
  • Prayer:  Gateway to the Spiritual Life by Archbishop Paul Coakley (AUDIO)
  • A School of Prayer:  The Saints Show Us How to Pray by Pope Benedict XVI (EBOOK)
  • Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales (EBOOK)
• Outside Resources
  • 4 Videos from Fr. Mike Schmitz on Prayer:  VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2, VIDEO 3, VIDEO 4
  • Prayer by Bishop Robert Barron
  • What Is Prayer? by Fr. Mark Toups
  • Mental Prayer - A Homily by Cardinal Arinze
  • How to Meditate by Fr. John Bartunek and Dan Burke in The Better Part
  • Mental Prayer from 3 Minute Theology by Joan Watson
  • The Ways of Mental Prayer by Dom Vitalis Lehoday (AUDIOBOOK in 14 parts)
  • St. Francis de Sales on The Necessity of Prayer, How to Practice Mental Prayer, & Aspirations/Ejaculatory Prayer/Holy Thoughts (from Introduction to the Devout Life)
  • Letter 130 - Full length version of St. Augustine's Letter to a Widow, esp. Chapter 10 (mentioned in Chapter 12 of Hahn's Book)
  • Saint Teresa of Avila Speaks on Mental Prayer
  • Mental Prayer - An Article from OurCatholicPrayers.com
  • Catechism (#2700-2724) on Expressions of Prayer
  • Catechism (#2725-2745) on The Battle of Prayer