Unit 1
The Boundaries of Prayer
“Everything about Jesus says, ‘Dear Father.’”
Reflection Questions
Is Christ involved in all your own experiences of prayer? If all of them, in what way? If some of them, which ones and in what way? If none of them, why not?
Reading
Into the Heart of the Father, Chapter One (pp. 9–21)
Discussion Questions
See p. 21 of Into the Heart of the Father
Assignment Question
In this chapter, DeLorenzo recalls the memory of jumping into his Father’s arms from a staircase to help us begin to imagine the risk of and trust in prayer. If you were to share a memory or image from your own life to begin to teach someone else about prayer, what memory or image would you select and why?
Additional Resources
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 2558–2565 and 2598–2622
Timothy Verdon, Art & Prayer: The Beauty of Turning to God (Brewster, MA: Mount Tabor, 2016). This text is a good companion all throughout. Well worth the cost of purchasing.
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