Prayer and Spirituality

Resources

Prayer is central to our ability to flourish as God created us to. It enables us to open ourselves daily to the life of God within us and around us. Without a regular practice of prayer, it is easy to forget that it is in God that ‘we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:28).

Often, though, it is difficult to know quite how to pray. Or we may feel that our prayer life has become stale rather than life-giving.

The internet can offer many resources to help us develop a rhythm of prayer which can enrich our lives and help us grow in love for God, others and ourselves. You may find the following websites helpful:

www.sacredspace.ie
A site developed by the Irish Jesuits offering a 10 minute daily reflection based on a different passage of scripture each day.

www.pray-as-you-go.org
Daily reflections using scripture and music which can be downloaded and played on an ipod or other mp3 player.

www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/pastoralformation/stewardship/prayer.php
A page for each month giving suggestions for ‘Prayer in the Home’.

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html
Offers daily and weekly prayer suggestion sin a variety of formats, as well as an online retreat

www.contemplativeprayer.net
Contains a guided introduction to silent, contemplative prayer.

www.wccm.org
An introduction to Christian Meditation as taught by Fr John Main and Fr Laurence Freeman.

www.universalis.com/Europe.England/today.htm
This site offers a variety of ways of joining in with the Church’s Morning and Evening Prayer (the Divine Office), as well as the texts of readings for Mass

www.gratefulness.org/
A site which helps us develop an attitude of gratefulness and wonder for the many things we may take for granted in our lives, using images and music.

www.wellsprings.org.uk
A website produced by people in the Portsmouth diocese which offers a wide variety of prayer and liturgical resources.

www.upperroom.org/methodx/
Includes a section on Prayer Methods with an introduction to praying with icons.

www.catholicchurch.org.uk/
The official site of the Catholic Church in England and Wales with a section on Prayer and Spirituality.

Thanks to Tim Gay and the Cathedral Spirituality Group for permission to reproduce parts of their leaflet Developing a Daily Practice of Prayer

Diocesan Spirituality Development Group

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