What is vocal prayer?
In the first place, prayer is lifting the heart to God. And yet Jesus himself taught his disciples to pray with words. With the Our Father he left us the perfect vocal prayer as his testament to show how we should pray.
While praying we should not try to think pious thoughts. We should express what is in our hearts and offer it to God as complaint, petition, praise, and thanks. Often it is the great vocal prayersthe Psalms and hymns of Sacred Scripture, the Our Father, the Hail Marythat direct us to the true substance of prayer and lead to a kind of free, interior prayer. (YOUCAT question 501)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2700-2704) and other references here.
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