Does Your Church Believe: There is no other way of Christian prayer than Christ?

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The text below is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is what the Catholic Church believes. I believe, we have common ground with nearly every other Christian Church in this regards. Am I right or wrong? Is there a different view “out there”.

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2663 In the living tradition of prayer, each Church proposes to its faithful, according to its historic, social, and cultural context, a language for prayer: words, melodies, gestures, iconography. The Magisterium of the Church15 has the task of discerning the fidelity of these ways of praying to the tradition of apostolic faith; it is for pastors and catechists to explain their meaning, always in relation to Jesus Christ.
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Prayer to the Father
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2664 There is no other way of Christian prayer than Christ. Whether our prayer is communal or personal, vocal or interior, it has access to the Father only if we pray “in the name” of Jesus. The sacred humanity of Jesus is therefore the way by which the Holy Spirit teaches us to pray to God our Father.
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2665 The prayer of the Church, nourished by the Word of God and the celebration of the liturgy, teaches us to pray to the Lord Jesus. Even though her prayer is addressed above all to the Father, it includes in all the liturgical traditions forms of prayer addressed to Christ. Certain psalms, given their use in the Prayer of the Church, and the New Testament place on our lips and engrave in our hearts prayer to Christ in the form of invocations: Son of God, Word of God, Lord, Savior, Lamb of God, King, Beloved Son, Son of the Virgin, Good Shepherd, our Life, our Light, our Hope, our Resurrection, Friend of mankind. . . .
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2666 But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. The divine name may not be spoken by human lips, but by assuming our humanity The Word of God hands it over to us and we can invoke it: “Jesus,” "YHWH saves."16 The name “Jesus” contains all: God and man and the whole economy of creation and salvation. To pray “Jesus” is to invoke him and to call him within us. His name is the only one that contains the presence it signifies. Jesus is the Risen One, and whoever invokes the name of Jesus is welcoming the Son of God who loved him and who gave himself up for him.17
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This is one of the many things that gives us common ground, but remember that there are many Protestant groups who don’t believe that Our Lord is truly God (like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Mormons, which can’t even be classified as Christian, and many other Unversalist denominations).

Also, we must reach out to them and extend a hand to help them learn the truth and effectively blot out the errors that the doctrines and teachings contain, that only when they reunite with the true Church, the mystical body of Christ, can they be fully receptive of God’s loving grace and truly Not just settle merely on a little common ground though it is an excellent start.
 
Interesting Pork,

I always wonder what everyone’s prayer life is like. 😉
 
How would you answer 1 Timothy 2:5 in light of Catholic teaching?
 
Porknpie said:
The text below is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is what the Catholic Church believes. I believe, we have common ground with nearly every other Christian Church in this regards. Am I right or wrong? Is there a different view “out there”.

Catechism Link to Paragraph 2663 Here

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I would say amen to this. As for groups who do not accept the Christian understanding of the Person of Christ, in a true sense, they are not Christian, though I do not mean that in a disrespectful way. Christianity is Trinitarian.

Jon
 
GaryTaylor said:
Interesting Pork,

I always wonder what everyone’s prayer life is like. 😉
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Gary,

I thought maybe so. In my signature line, I reference reading the catechism in a year. I read those paragraphs today (week #14…Sunday…I’m a day ahead). It got me wondering…

After being on CAF for a year now…I’ve mellowed a bit I think… looking more often for where we are in common but curious as to when and why we are not … from our separated brothers in Christ.

There you go…sometime 2,000 years from now…someone reading this thread may not understand what I just meant by “brother”. Almost time for a new thread. :rolleyes:

It’s been a wonderful twelve months as I’ve learned so much about my faith and that of those separated…

Amen (thanks Jon)

Pork
 
Porknpie said:
Gary,

I thought maybe so. In my signature line, I reference reading the catechism in a year. I read those paragraphs today (week #14…Sunday…I’m a day ahead). It got me wondering…

After being on CAF for a year now…I’ve mellowed a bit I think… looking more often for where we are in common but curious as to when and why we are not … from our separated brothers in Christ.

There you go…sometime 2,000 years from now…someone reading this thread may not understand what I just meant by “brother”. Almost time for a new thread. :rolleyes:

It’s been a wonderful twelve months as I’ve learned so much about my faith and that of those separated…

Amen (thanks Jon)

Pork
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:pshaw:

I gain much more than I give here. And I’ve gained much by making your acquaintance.

Jon
 
Pork, I am most familiar with the Methodist, Lutheran (ELCA), and Episcopalian churches, and they all use the Lord’s Prayer, the prayer Jesus taught His disciples, as part of their service. They believe in the Trinity.

I was a member of the Unitarian church for a while. They are not Christian; they contain people of many different faiths or of none. The Unitarians split off because they believed God was not a Trinity.
 
Any prayer, offered with sincere heart and sincere intent is heard…all prayer be it Buddhist, Wiccan, Catholic, Mormon, Protestant, Satanist is seen and heard by God…He hears not the words…but Knows the intent of the heart…and THAT is where true prayer is known.
 
Publisher said:
Any prayer, offered with sincere heart and sincere intent is heard…all prayer be it Buddhist, Wiccan, Catholic, Mormon, Protestant, Satanist is seen and heard by God…He hears not the words…but Knows the intent of the heart…and THAT is where true prayer is known.
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Publisher, what is the prayer intent of satanist to God? Curious I am.

🙂
 
LoyalViews said:
remember that there are many Protestant groups who don’t believe that Our Lord is truly God (like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Mormons, which can’t even be classified as Christian, and many other Unversalist denominations).
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I don’t think it is fair to Protestants, who are Christians, to refer to these *non-Christian *religions with the term “Protestant.” Yes, it’s true that many of their founding members such as Joseph Smith were once Protestants, but present adherents are no longer any kind of Christian at all. 🙂
GreatergoodGod said:
How would you answer 1 Timothy 2:5 in light of Catholic teaching?
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1Timothy 2:5 is Catholic teaching, so it’s not something to be “answered” but taught. 🙂
 
LoyalViews said:
This is one of the many things that gives us common ground, but remember that there are many Protestant groups who don’t believe that Our Lord is truly God (like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Mormons, which can’t even be classified as Christian, and many other Unversalist denominations).

Also, we must reach out to them and extend a hand to help them learn the truth and effectively blot out the errors that the doctrines and teachings contain, that only when they reunite with the true Church, the mystical body of Christ, can they be fully receptive of God’s loving grace and truly Not just settle merely on a little common ground though it is an excellent start.
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Jehovah’s Witness, LDS, and Universalists are not Protestant groups for a variety of reasons: First, they were not part of the original Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. Second, they reject all of the banners of the Reformation; and Third, they are not Christians.
 
Porknpie said:
Gary,

I thought maybe so. In my signature line, I reference reading the catechism in a year. I read those paragraphs today (week #14…Sunday…I’m a day ahead). It got me wondering…

After being on CAF for a year now…I’ve mellowed a bit I think… looking more often for where we are in common but curious as to when and why we are not … from our separated brothers in Christ.

There you go…sometime 2,000 years from now…someone reading this thread may not understand what I just meant by “brother”. Almost time for a new thread. :rolleyes:

It’s been a wonderful twelve months as I’ve learned so much about my faith and that of those separated…

Amen (thanks Jon)

Pork
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I agree, I’ve come to realize prayer centers me as not to act off temptation here. Imho the past couple years have bought a closer unity in Christianity, I believe CAF has also helped in the sense that many differences are also misunderstanding, so the platform is an opportunity to interact in that regard. Its also inspired me to seek out others I have know a very long time in various areas of the universal church here in the community. The larger issues of society have indeed become a great concern. The turmoil reverts all believers back to the basic words of prayer. Deliver us from evil/God help us. I find we don’t disagree much on what indeed is evil, we all become more agreeable here I see.

The CCC is a blessing, it definitely leads to the councils. early church fathers. encyclicals. I see the further I read the more I understand the range of the term practicing Catholic.

Prayer though I am convinced the Church is correct; “the law of prayer is the law of belief” which comes back to the CCC “The Church invites us to invoke the Holy Spirit as the interior Teacher of Christian prayer”

Yes, it has been an insightful, never dull adventure into Christianity here.

Peace, Gary
 
If there is no other way to God but through Christ, then how is there any other way of Christian prayer than through Christ? But I’m Catholic, so obviously I agree. 🤷
 
CrossofChrist said:
If there is no other way to God but through Christ, then how is there any other way of Christian prayer than through Christ? But I’m Catholic, so obviously I agree. 🤷
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Amen. I will even give you a Baptist aymen.
 
Publisher said:
Any prayer, offered with sincere heart. And sincere intent is heard…all prayer be it Buddhist, Wiccan, Catholic, Mormon, Protestant, Satanist is seen and heard by God…He hears not the words…but Knows the intent of the heart…and THAT is where true prayer is known.
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I don’t mean to offend, Publisher…but God is not schizophrenic. He is a God of truth who d oes not take the worship of false gods for the worship of Himself. When the Caananites prayed to Baal, they were not praying to Yaweh.
 
Right, I figured Publisher would be back to elaborate for us there. 🙂
 
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