http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/2010/02/09/evangelical-is-not-enough-prayer/ Seeking The Kingdom In All Things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/2010/02/09/evangelical-is-not-enough-prayer/comment-page-1/#comment-2293 s-p Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:08:22 +0000 http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/?p=2454#comment-2293 Leonard, I was raised pre-Vatican II Catholic and converted to the c of C in 1970. It took me 20 years to realize the cofC had its own "vain repetitions", and it dawned on me that some things said once are vain... so the problem isn't necessarily repetition. (I ended up in the Orthodox Church.) Leonard, I was raised pre-Vatican II Catholic and converted to the c of C in 1970. It took me 20 years to realize the cofC had its own “vain repetitions”, and it dawned on me that some things said once are vain… so the problem isn’t necessarily repetition. (I ended up in the Orthodox Church.)

]]> http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/2010/02/09/evangelical-is-not-enough-prayer/comment-page-1/#comment-2290 leonard Nugent Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:26:38 +0000 http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/?p=2454#comment-2290 I was baptised in a catholic family but left the church for a number of years and went into the "Church of Christ" After the 9000th "give our brother a ready recollection as he breaks the bread of life for us" I came to the conclusion that we all use repatition. Jesus used it as well repeating his prayer 3 times in the garden. What he condemned is not repation but vain repatition. I know of no long established catholic prayers that use "vain" repatitions. In fact it might be a good idea for me to say "pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death" a few millinon more times before now and the hour of my death become the same thing! I was baptised in a catholic family but left the church for a number of years and went into the “Church of Christ” After the 9000th “give our brother a ready recollection as he breaks the bread of life for us” I came to the conclusion that we all use repatition. Jesus used it as well repeating his prayer 3 times in the garden. What he condemned is not repation but vain repatition. I know of no long established catholic prayers that use “vain” repatitions. In fact it might be a good idea for me to say “pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death” a few millinon more times before now and the hour of my death become the same thing!

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