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Welcome to Boot Camp
The Prayer-Relationship Strategy: 3 Words
Mission Self-Assessment
Strategies and Pitfalls
Personal Prayer Goal-Setting
Q & A
Where are you?
Phase Minutes per day of quality conversation with Jesus Christ
Fat Camp 0-5
Basic Training 6-14
Mission Ready 15 +
From the Top
• “Our daily prayer is a conversation— a ‘phone call home’—which we need to strengthen and renew our lives. One hour at Sunday Mass is not going to be enough. One hour surely would not be enough for our spouse or best friend.” Bishop Loverde, Go Forth
Hungry for Ideas? Google it!
“How to pray?”
About 147,000,000 results (0.27 seconds)
“How not to pray?”
About 197,000 results (0.46 seconds)
“How to Pray?”
•How to pray when you’re depressed
•How to pray if you’re an atheist
•How to pray the right way
•How to pray when you’re pissed at God
From “Dad is Fat” by Jim Gaffigan
Having five kids is like living on a construction site. Silence is startling to me at this point. Once, a moment of silence actually woke me up: ‘What’s
that? Is a tsunami about to hit?’
From the very top…
“Enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.”
“Christian triumph…a victorious banner borne with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of evil.”
– Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel, 272, 85
From the Soldier’s Creed
I am an American Soldier.I am a Warrior and a member of a team.
I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values.
I will always place the mission first.I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
Mission First: The Purpose of being a Man of Prayer
• Our families (our vocation)
• The men we are mentoring and leading in the faith (“Go and make disciples”)
• Friends, extended family, colleagues, and neighbors whom God has placed in our lives to share His life with (evangelization)
Don’t Believe this is Your Mission?
Nearly a third of Catholics believe in an impersonal God…in other words, an
“impersonal force.” –Pew Landscape Survey, 2008
“That means that many among us do not have a personal, intimate relationship with
the source of our very being.”–Bishop Loverde, Go Forth with Hearts on Fire, p. 18
Here’s why we need to lead in prayer: Young Adults Who Stay:
1) Have experienced God’s presence and seen answered prayer.”
2) Can ask and openly discuss their real spiritual questions in the Christian community.
3) Understand the Gospel at a deep level.4) Have seen communities of faith and
older adults authentically live their faith.
Hemorrhaging Faith, 2012
1. Thank You: The Man of Gratitude - Adoration/Praise & Thanksgiving
2. Sorry: The Contrite Man - Contrition
3. Please: The Intercessor - Listening - Supplication & Intercession
ACTS: Adoration, contrition, thanksgiving and supplication
Three Strategies
What Now? Plan of Life (cf. Bought with a Price)
Morning Offering & 10 minutes
Convert your Commute Prayer during the day
Leadership in evening family prayer
Prayer with your Spouse
Examination of Conscience & Act of Contrition
Your Sabbath Restoration Plan