What are the characteristics of Christian prayer?
Christian prayer is prayer in the attitude of faith, hope, and charity. It is persevering and resigns itself to the will of God.
Someone who prays as a Christian steps at that moment out of himself and enters into an attitude of trusting faith in the one God and Lord; at the same time he places all his hope in Godthat HE will hear, understand, accept, and perfect him. St. John Bosco once said, "To know the will of God, three things are required: prayer, waiting, taking counsel." Finally, Christian prayer is always an expression of love, which comes from Christ's love and seeks the divine love. (YOUCAT question 493)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2656-2658) and other references here.
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