Prayer, above all things, is placing our trust in God that if he brings us to it, he will bring us through it. It becomes an anchor on the stormy seas of life that promises one day to bring us to the safe harbor of heaven.
The knowledge of things unseen. God, before Jesus Christ, was invisible. His existence was only revealed by himself in various ways. First, through creation, but then, in the course of revelation, God revealed Himself in His Word.
We, of course, as Catholics, value the human person above all, and we don't want any technology to take the place of the work of humanity and the great gifts that God has endowed us with.
Are we the only ones out there? The Catholic Church has not spoken definitively one way or the other. If we believe in a God, we cannot limit him, nor can we know his limitations. If he wills that there be other beings in other places, perhaps we just haven't met them yet.
The Society of Saint Pius the 10th (SSPX), is a movement founded over 50 years ago, in 1970 by an archbishop, Marcel Lefebvre, who wanted to retain the Trinity Mass or the Traditional Latin Mass, just as it was before the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
So the Jews don't pronounce the Tetragrammaton because the Jews admirably considered it too holy to be uttered. But we as Catholics should proclaim and invoke the Holy Name of Jesus frequently, as long as we do so with reverence.
You are correct when you say that Holy Mass is one prayer. In fact, it is the greatest prayer there is because it is an actual participation in Jesus's supreme offering of himself on the cross that he made once and for all, right, once and for all.
“You never fully know everything
about your relationship with God. There’s moments of joy, there’s low moments,
but I think that’s cool, because it’s never boring. Noticing what God does in the
everyday is so beautiful to me - I don’t think of myself as lucky, I think of myself
as blessed.”
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