Prayer is a moral act

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I am still hoping to find the time to say my idea more clearly.
 
Does any person out there know of any scholars that might know?
 
I hope to find the energy and clarity of mind to answer my own question on this thread.

However, I hope some saintly scholar out there finds this thread and answers it for me.

Thanks.
 
Seamus Sully:
Dorothy!!!

This is my real question–

There seems to be four levels or acts of prayer.

GOD
  1. Contemplation (and it has levels or acts)
  2. Affective acts or levels
  3. Thinking prayers or Meditation (praying about our moral life)
  4. Hearing or reading the Holy Bible
Levels of Scripture
  1. Angogical
  2. Moral
  3. Allegorical
  4. Literal and historical
Again, is there a connection between the four levels of Scripture and the four acts of prayer?

Thanks!!!
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intriguing idea. I would be more inclined to attribute the ability to discern the different senses of scripture to intellectual development. Is it possible that both are tied to intellectual development? Also, one rarely experiences the the senses of scripture or even prayer in an isolated way. It seems to me that they bleed over. Even the rosary, you pray vocally and meditatively. I can understand the story of Joseph (of Egypt) both as a prefigurement of Jesus and also as historical. I can even discern his moral actions.

I guess the connection I would draw would be that each has a development from simpler to complex. Although, I’d say understanding the Bible is easier than developing a prayer life, at least for lazy me.
 
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