Father Brian Park's Podcast

Father Brian Park's Top 15 Favorite Quotes about Prayer:1. "The greatest deception, and deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God" -St. John Paul II 2. "Great is the mystery of the faith!" The Church professes this mystery in the Apostles' Creed and celebrates it in the sacramental liturgy, so that the life of the faithful may be conformed to Christ in the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father. This mystery, then, requires that the faithful believe in it, that they celebrate it, and that they live from it in a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer. (CCC 2558)3. "Prayer is a vital necessity." "Prayer and Christian life are inseparable." (CCC 2744 & 2745)4. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God." (CCC 2559)5. "The air which we breathe, the bread which we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human be