my secret prayer

Welcome to another (probably my first) of my the Catholic religion 101. Well, this is probably more generalized than specifically to the Catholic religion. But either way, i think it's important to understand what prayer really is about!

Why do we pray? good question. And have i got a good answer for you! Let's first talk about love.

Love, when you love someone, be it your family, girlfriend, friends, and what not, you want to stay in touch, keep updated and stuff right. And we do this through so many means, talking, phone calls, emails. If we love God, it's only right we do the same.

I look at it this way. prayer is like a cellphone, think about it! We don't have a phone number or an email address we can call God with, so we do this through prayer, and how convenient is that, it's free of charge and you can do it anywhere anytime!

What do we prayer about? well, what would you like to talk to God about, that's really the question. Prayer should come natural, Prayer is not something you have to do just because your parents told you to *cough cough*, well most of the time it starts of that way, but you should really understand what prayer is. But anyway, some of the generally always used in prayer, (a tip for prayer beginners) is asking for God's grace, help, forgiveness, thanking him, praising him...

Besides that, there's always the classic prayers that everyone loves, The Our Father, The Hail Mary, Glory Be, Fatima's Prayer, Angel of God.

And here are some other prayers i've found useful in my life, and i'm sure you would too.

Prayer to St. Jude

Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help

A prayer i believe is a means of building up our relationship with God, which makes total sense, as when you get to know someone the more you guys talk the more you get to know that someone. And one thing about prayers is, don't be discouraged if you don't think you prayed correctly or had some mis-perfections in your prayer. No one is perfect like God. I think praying is like building up a Gunpla, each prayer is a different part, sometimes you might have cut it wrongly, or chipped it a little, something wrong, but with more practice, you get better at it, and when you look at the whole gunpla, it's probably not as bad as you think it was. Same as prayers, the more you do it, the better you get at it, and somehow it'll work out. And hopefully by the end of your life on earth, you'll have a shelf full of gunplas! and by that i mean prayers!

So with that in mind, remember to prayer everyday!