Why Should We Pray Together?

[Galnextdoor]

I know that when two or more are gathered in God’s name he will be there. But… God is everywhere so wouldn’t that mean He would be there anyway? So why should we pray the rosary together or say any prayers together?

I understand the need to go to mass, to praise God and receive the Eucharist, but why the other forms of public prayers?

 

[alitaptap]

The family that prays together stays together.

 

[Galnextdoor]

The family that prays together stays together.

I’ve heard that, but it didn’t work in my family.

 

[Ferds_Guiang]

I believe prayer is not just a private devotion required by God. Public and group prayer in the form of the Holy Mass or other liturgical celebrations has the purpose of making the Church feel her communitarian spirit. And of course the joint prayers of people are more powerful. We cannot be fully a Church, a family of God, without praying as a group.

 

[seagal]

I believe prayer is not just a private devotion required by God. Public and group prayer in the form of the Holy Mass or other liturgical celebrations has the purpose of making the Church feel her communitarian spirit. And of course the joint prayers of people are more powerful. We cannot be fully a Church, a family of God, without praying as a group.

I agree. Remember that the prayer Jesus taught us to pray uses the plural: Our Father…give us this day…forgive us our trespasses… He expected us and taught us to pray together, not just individually.

 

[velvetsky]

I know that when two or more are gathered in God’s name he will be there. But… God is everywhere so wouldn’t that mean He would be there anyway? So why should we pray the rosary together or say any prayers together?

I understand the need to go to mass, to praise God and receive the Eucharist, but why the other forms of public prayers?

Thats a good question, I’ve wondered that too

 

[aspirant]

God is everywhere so wouldn’t that mean He would be there anyway?

The graces received can be different.

I understand the need to go to mass, to praise God and receive the Eucharist, but why the other forms of public prayers?

Our Father is not making us into lone rangers, but into a family, a fellowship, a communion, a Body.

you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit."
“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’”