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| Prayer | Awareness of God and Response to the sacred in all our life |
| Paschal Mystery | New life comes through the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus |
| Sacraments | God is present to us and makes us holy through these visible signs and actions. |
| Metaphor | Used to show the similarity between one thing and another. |
| Mantra | A word or phrase that is repeated over and over to help a person relax and be aware in meditation or contempletive prayer |
| Grace | The loving and active presence of God in our lives |
| Intercession | A type of prayer asking for God's help for someone else. |
| Discernment | A process of seeking the direction or alternative that god would want, seeking God's will |
| Holy Spirit | Love as an active presence that helps one perceive and extend God's love. |
| Petition | Asking for God's help. |
| Examen | A process of discernment that focuses on how God is active and how one feels about their activities of the day. |
| Will | God's _____ works with humans and their free choices to fulfill the Reign of God. |
| Freedom | Human ___________ is given by God as a necessary aspect of love. |
| Suffering | God's goodness and new life can come to us even through human _____________ in life. |
| Limited | If a person is ____________ to just asking for things from someone, the relationship is __________ too. |
| Anticipated | God may answer prayer in a way you had not _____________. |
| hearts | God may answer prayer by changing our __________ so we understand and can cope better. |
| self | God may answer prayer through the act of praying it______ as it can make us more _______ aware. |
| Given | God may answer prayer when the thing we ask for is __________ to us. |
| Goal | The real ___________ of prayer is to grow closer to God. |
| Unanswered | When prayer seems to be _____________ people sometimes discover the paradox of the Paschal Mystery, that good can come from suffering. |
| enemies | God wants us to pray for our ____________ so we will understand the person more like God understnads the person. |
| heal | God wants us to pray for our enemies so that we can _______ our relationship with the person. |
| Relationship | At the core of prayer, God wants loving __________ with us and our ___________'s with others. |
| Saints | Persons who are united with God. |
| Communion | _____________ of Saints is the bond of unity that we have with people of God, both living and dead. |
| Control | Prayer is not ___________ over life or over God's will. |
| Magic | A form of control or manipulation or attempting to use power over God rather than trusting in God and working with God in our free choices. |
| God | The Kingdom of ______ is here, but will not be fulfilled apart from human choices consistent with God's will. |
| Paradox | When two things that are seemingly opposite show a significant similarity. |
| Seven | The _________ steps of discernment are a process developed by John Baptist de La Salle to help us make Godly choices. |
