Objectives:

1.Compose a
personal prayer to
God
2.Define prayer
3.Share their prayer
with their classmate
4.Enumerate the
different types of
Christian prayer
5.Explain the
importance of prayer
to us as Filipino
Prayer
Is a loving, conscious, personal relationship with God,
our all-loving, good Father, who has adopted us through His
beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit. (CFC no.
1475) 
It is “intimate conversation with God who we know
loves us” (St. Teresa of Avila). 
It is our ascent to God... It is our personal conversation
with God. 
NB:
Actually, it is the Holy Spirit who brings us into this life
of communion and fellowship with the Father and with His
Son, Jesus Christ (Jn. 1:3, 2Cor. 13:13).
Authentic Christian prayer, then, is always Trinitarian,
since it is through Christ that we have access in one Spirit to
the Father (Eph. 2:18). CFC 1475 p. 2
 
 Types of Prayer
1. Adoration
2. Thanksgiving
3. Contrition
4. Petition
5. Offering
Filipino Context of Prayer
It is natural for most Filipino to think of prayer in
terms of explicit vocal prayers like the Our Father
or Hail Mary or devotional acts of piety like
novenas to the Blessed Virgin Mary or their patron
saints. Such explicit prayers are concrete
expressions of a deeper dimension of our personal
lives. For besides being particular, explicit activity,
prayer for authentic believers, is more
fundamentally an essential dimension of whole
lives--- all of life.
According to St. Paul “never cease praying, render
constant thanks; such is God’s will for you in Christ
Jesus” (1Thess. 5:17f).
Prayer is based on the deeper reality that we have
no way of “talking to God” unless He first turns
toward us and reveals Himself, and graces us with
His Spirit.
St. Paul said: prayer is really a grace of God.
Prayer in Scripture
A. In the Old Testament
In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit “Spoke through the
prophets” of Yahweh’s complaint against those who
“honor me with their lips alone, though their hearts are
far from me” (Is 29:13). Such religious hypocrisy fastened
on merely the external forms of prayer, fasting and
sacrifice, while neglecting the basic demands of social
justice and love of neighbour. Is 58:6-9
Authentic prayer, then, is always rooted in the heart, and
related to the neighbour in loving compassion and service.
The Book of Psalm is the masterwork of the Spirit’s
instruction in prayer
B. In the New Testament
Prayer is in the major actions of Jesus: Baptism,
Choosing His apostles, Transfiguration, Passion
on the Cross, Last Supper.
Jesus is the perfect model and teacher of prayer.
But, Christ greatest gift to all his followers was his
sending of the Holy Spirit to be the interior
animating force, source of their whole
Christian life.
C. Christian Prayer
Jesus is the heart of Christian Prayer. He is much
more than just an exterior model to be
imitated and copied like some popular
celebrity, according to our particular fancy. On
the contrary, God has bestowed on us in Christ
every spiritual blessing. It is in Christ and
through his blood that we have been redeemed
and our sins forgiven. God has predestined us to
share the image of His Son. Therefore, we are
told to put on the Lord Jesus Christ make our
own the mind of Christ Jesus.
D. Levels of Christian Prayer
Private or Personal
Novenas, rosary devotions to Patron saints,
meditations
Public or Communal
Liturgical Prayer