tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971192879947495978.post3979745170126475857..comments2014-05-15T16:56:01.139-05:00Comments on Justification Rules: How to PrayJay Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08341319092916976045noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971192879947495978.post-27570036794120546382009-08-07T09:48:13.759-05:002009-08-07T09:48:13.759-05:00i couldn't help but notice that in your little...i couldn't help but notice that in your little graphic , the word "Pat[t]erN" appears.... between the catechism and the psalms we have a tremendous "pattern of sound words". As your blog posts end, the kyrie is a biblical prayer to follow also! Beyond that we have the collects and hymns of course. Beyond even that there are certainly ex corde prayers which are also heard.<br /><br />But there's something to going back further, to following a pattern of sound words that helps us... rather than simply praying spontaneously (which often means rather clumsily). It's certainly what Bonhoeffer says in "Psalms: The Prayerbook of the Bible" (in which he follows Luther's example of matching the psalms up with petitions of the Lord's Prayer):<br /><br />"The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart."Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02637730997381642190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971192879947495978.post-44854942656146552372009-07-28T08:44:58.183-05:002009-07-28T08:44:58.183-05:00Hmm, yeah that is a good point that prayer anxiety...Hmm, yeah that is a good point that prayer anxiety has always been a problem. Which should have been obvious to me if I just wrote a post on the 16th century. I'm going to see if I can find any references on how-to-pray from earlier church history... that might be fun to look at.Jay Hobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08341319092916976045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971192879947495978.post-62891510557744699982009-07-27T17:59:31.510-05:002009-07-27T17:59:31.510-05:00Too often we worry about the quality of our prayer...Too often we worry about the quality of our prayers - as though our God were some pagan god who needed to be impressed by our wordsmithing or conviction, rather than the God who takes on Human Flesh and dies so that we might be forgiven.<br /><br />But it is good to remember that prayer anxiety has been a constant throughout the ages of the Church - not just a new-fangled problem.Rev. Eric J Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.com