So, you're on your way to being a Dynamic Catholic, or maybe you're already there. One of the central works of a Dynamic Catholic is prayer. Jesus sacrificed himself for our salvation and by all sorts of tortuous paths we have, through Gods desire, arrived at a place where we can pray for our salvation and the salvation of others. Our prayers are our thanks to Jesus for the gift He has given us. Jesus wants to save every person on earth, unfortunately, not everyone knows they need to be saved or wants to be saved. We can help Jesus in his mission to save souls by going to mass, the greatest form of prayer. Pope Paul VI, in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy said,

"For the liturgy, "through which the work of our redemption is accomplished," most of all in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives, and manifest to others, the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church."  

Different types of prayer include, informal prayer, which can be speaking with Jesus daily through normal conversation, or formal prayers, such as the Rosary, one of the most powerful prayers. Every thought lifted to Jesus is a prayer and the Apostle Paul told us in 1 Thessalonians that we should  "Pray without ceasing".

 

Jesus also gave us his Mother Mary as our spiritual mother to intercede on our behalf. If we love Jesus' mother, Jesus will love us. Jesus loves his mother with a perfect, pure, and holy love and we can participate in that love by loving His mother as well. Mary always intercedes for us and if you ask something of her, she will bring it to her Son in a perfect way. Just as in chapter 2 of John's Gospel, at the wedding feast at Cana, Mary interceded for the couple;

When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." Jesus said to her, "Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come. "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you." Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now." Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.

 

We know, however, that not every prayer is answered in the way we want it and when we want it. God knows what is best for us and for others in His own time. By us offering up our prayers and sacrifices, we are conforming our minds and hearts to our creator. As Jesus says in Matthew's Gospel Chapter 21,  "Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."

 

All this, in turn, brings peace to us and to the world around us. Now, more than ever, the world needs our prayers and Dynamic Catholics can bring about salvation to the millions of people that know Jesus, and the millions that don't.