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Milton_Sermoud
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Hello! I am without any will to pray, I do not know why I am feeling so. How to “heal” this problem?
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Brassring
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I don’t want to sound trite or dismissive, but my answer is to pray.
I’ve experienced the same problem before. It recurs from time to time. I find that the best way to recover my will to pray is to force myself to pray. If you can get some time in a quiet church or chapel, before the tabernacle, I find that the most beneficial. I know it can be difficult to find an empty chapel, but we have several Catholic hospitals in my city, and the chapels there are usually empty.
I’ve experienced the same problem before. It recurs from time to time. I find that the best way to recover my will to pray is to force myself to pray. If you can get some time in a quiet church or chapel, before the tabernacle, I find that the most beneficial. I know it can be difficult to find an empty chapel, but we have several Catholic hospitals in my city, and the chapels there are usually empty.
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Milton_Sermoud
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Okay. Thank you!I don’t want to sound trite or dismissive, but my answer is to pray.
I’ve experienced the same problem before. It recurs from time to time. I find that the best way to recover my will to pray is to force myself to pray. If you can get some time in a quiet church or chapel, before the tabernacle, I find that the most beneficial. I know it can be difficult to find an empty chapel, but we have several Catholic hospitals in my city, and the chapels there are usually empty.
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Polycarp1
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I suspect you have been praying for an increase in faith. Faith is like muscle, it won’t grow unless we exercise it. When we pray for an increase in Faith the Lord leads us into “the desert”. He doesn’t leave us, in fact it is during these times when He is actually closest to us, but he allows us to flail around without the comfort of emotional, warm and fuzzy feelings we enjoy when we are feeling all holy. The bible is full of stories of “faith crisis’s” and people calling out to God from the depths of their deserts. So be assured that even though you feel alone the Holy Spirit is with you and working in you. The Lord will bring you out when He wants and you will be spiritually stronger. You have prayed for a deepening of Faith and the desert is an answer to your prayer, so don’t despair and keep praising God even if your prayers feel empty. They’re not!
Sounds to me that you actually DO have the will to pray, but don’t feel like it.Hello! I am without any will to pray, I do not know why I am feeling so. How to “heal” this problem?
Since our emotions come and go, I’d say go ahead and pray anyway.
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styrgwillidar
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Try a different method of prayer, keeping in mind that it is about raising our hearts and minds to God.Hello! I am without any will to pray, I do not know why I am feeling so. How to “heal” this problem?
Might want to read the catechism’s section on prayer, ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/catechism/index.html#630
I try and remind myself that-
2562 Where does prayer come from? Whether prayer is expressed in words or gestures, it is the whole man who prays. But in naming the source of prayer, Scripture speaks sometimes of the soul or the spirit, but most often of the heart (more than a thousand times). According to Scripture, it is the heart that prays. If our heart is far from God, the words of prayer are in vain
Listen to some uplifting music, go closely examine a flower or some other aspect of God’s creation.
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Dorothy
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Yes! To pray without feelings helps us to become spiritually stronger. God hears us!Sounds to me that you actually DO have the will to pray, but don’t feel like it.
Since our emotions come and go, I’d say go ahead and pray anyway.
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