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This prayer book strives to instill in young Catholics not only a
love of our Lord in the Holy Eucharist but also a love of prayer
and a practical knowledge of the art of meditation.
As examples of the many ways to pray, this book contains prayers
to pray out loud (vocal prayer) or in the silence of your heart. It
shows how you can talk with God, and more importantly, how you can
love God. It shows how to use pictures and images-like holy cards
and the Stations of the Cross-to help you pray and meditate. This
book also shows you how to use Bible stories to meditate on the
lessons Jesus taught. You will see how you can talk with God
silently in the quiet of your room, in church, outdoors in His
wonderful creation-at all times, in all places.
As you progress through this book-from discovering what prayer
is to reading and reciting simple prayers to understanding
meditation and then to helps for deeper meditation-you will see
that prayer and meditation often go together. Meditation is
described by the big "Catechism of the Catholic Church "as nothing
more than "prayerful reflection" or holy thinking. You can use
books, devotions, pictures, holy cards, and images (such as the
stained glass windows in church) to help you think or meditate on
holy people, events, and ideas.
This book gives many suggestions about how to talk with God so
that each day you can love Him more and become closer friends.
Learn to hear His loving voice and follow His holy will.
MANY circumstances will determine the character of our preparation
for the visit of a guest-his rank, his relations with us, the
object of his visit, and perhaps Onr special needs at the time. But
one disposition will ensure its fitness and its acceptableness in
every caso. Let him but hear "Welcome" from our lips, or rather see
"Welcome " in our face, and he will be satisfied. "Welcome" greets
the sovereign in letters of light. It is seemly on the lips of the
poorest peasant, of the casual acquaintance, of the intimate
friend, of the parent, and of the child It never tires, it never
grows monotonous or superfluous. For it takes a new meaning with
every change of circumstance affecting our guest or ourselves. If
either is joyous or sad, wronged, weary, anxious, burdened,
disturbed-it suits itself to every need. Our Lord is one of us and
like us in all things, sin excepted. His Heart responds like ours
to the sound of "Welcome " It beat quicker as, tired at evening
with His daily toil, He crossed the threshold of His house at
Nazareth and read it in Mary's face. As He saw it stamped clear and
bright all the house over at Bethany. As He heard Martha.'s
greeting, reverent yet hearty, and her sister's whisper inaudible
to all but Him. So sweet to His ear is its sound, that He
condescends to invite it: "Zacheus, make haste and come down, for
this day I must abide in thy house. And he came down and received
Him with joy." "And they drew nigh to the town whither they were
going, and He made as though He would go farther. But they
constrained Him, saying: stay with us, because it is towards
evening, and the day is now far spent. And He went in with them."
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