Year of Prayer
Prayer unites us; it makes us brothers and sisters. It is in prayer that our hearts find the strength not to be cold and insensitive in the face of injustice. In prayer, God keeps calling us, opening our hearts to charity.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis has inaugurated a Year of Prayer ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, calling on the faithful “to intensify prayer to prepare us to live well this event of grace and to experience the power of God’s hope.” He explained that the Year of Prayer is dedicated “to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer, prayer in personal life, in the life of the Church, prayer in the world.”
There is no one correct way to pray. Prayer is spending time with God listening, talking, responding. It is both a personal and a communal action. You can't get it wrong and you can't break it.
As well as the resources linked below during the year the Dicastery for Evangelization will be preparing materials to assist in celebrating the Year which will be linked from this site.
Other Resources
The Lord's Prayer is the title history has given to the prayer of Jesus, the one he taught his friends when they asked for his guidance about how to pray.
Like the boat that carries our lives, like the shelter of a mother's arms or the protection of a father's smile, The Lord's Prayer is a universe of care, a carrier through waves and wind, sun and storm. Teaching interdependence, our need of others; helping us see that we are not in our world but in a world for all.
The Lord's Prayer is not for anyone. It is for everyone.
Available from the Liturgy Centre.
YOUCAT - The Youth Prayer Book, helps young people to live their faith and deepen their spiritual lives. With modern, new prayers, along with traditional prayers, and the time-honoured prayers of Holy Scripture it gives a lot of practical advice on how to pray: in the morning, in the evening, and in between; in sorrow or in joy.
Available from the Liturgy Centre.