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How am i able to pray greater?
How do i do know God hears my prayers?
How am i able to 'pray always,' as Jesus commands?
Why needs to I ask for issues God already is aware i would like?

Such have been the questions that confused a tender North African guy, Augustine Aurelius (354-430), whose severe craving for God led him right into a profound and lifetime come upon with Christ in prayer.

There Augustine discovered solutions to those questions and to numerous extra solutions now not grounded in his personal brilliance, yet in prayer itself.

In time, Augustine turned a bishop and a Father of the Church, and has lengthy been numbered between her saints. but of all of the Church's saints, now not one expresses the eager for God extra fantastically, or explores the character of prayer extra helpfully, than St. Augustine. His phrases communicate to us this present day as freshly as they did to his contemporaries.

St. Augustine wrote many books, yet by no means one dedicated to prayer on my own. certainly, his teachings on prayer are scattered in lots of areas. So from over two hundred works, Fr. Cliff Ermatinger has accrued and translated Augustine's teachings on prayer, and now offers them the following in an easy question-and-answer structure. What emerges is not anything below a wealthy new "catechism on prayer" by way of one of many Church s maximum saints.

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