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2644 The Holy Spirit who teaches the Church and recalls to her all that Jesus said also instructs her in the l~fe of prayer, inspiring new expressions of the same basic forms ofprayer: blessing, petition, intercession, thanksgiving and praise. 2645 Because God blesses the human heart, it
can in return bless him who is the source of every blessing.
2646 Forgiveness, the quest for the
Kingdom, and every true need are objects of the prayer of
petition. 2647 Prayer of
intercession consists in asking on behalf of another. It
knows no boundaries and extends to one’s enemies.
2648 Everyjoy and suffering, every event and need
can become the matterfor thanksgiving which, sharing in that
of Christ, should fill one’s whole life:
‘Give thanks in all circumstances’ (i Th
5:18). 2649 Prayer ofpraise is
entirely disinterested and rises to God, lauds him and gives
him glory for his own sake, quite beyond what he has done,
but simply because HE Is. 2650 Prayer cannot be reduced to the spontaneous
outpouring of interior impulse: in order to pray, one must
have the will to pray. Nor is it enough to know what the
Scriptures reveal about prayer: one
must also learn how to pray. Through a living transmission
75 (Sacred Tradition) within ‘the believing and
praying Church’,’ the Holy
Spirit teaches the children of God how to pray.
2651 The tradition of Christian prayer is one of the ways
in which the tradition of faith takes shape and grows,
especially through the contemplation
and study of believers who treasure in their hearts the
events and words of the economy of salvation, and through
their profound grasp of the spiritual realities they
experience.2
in the heart that prays. It is he who
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