Does God Care?

[virginiancatholic]

[quote name='picchick' post='1869713' date='May 17 2009, 07:22 PM']Alright, now for the main point of this thread...

Then why does it matter if this prayer, done as you all say: reverence, thankfullness, through the Trinity, praise, intercession, is done with laying of hands, through praise and worship, or anything else?

Does God care? As long as our relationship with Him grows through that prayer, does it matter?[/quote]


As the goal of personal prayer is communion with God and a participation in the life of the Church, I would think that Our Blessed Lord is capable of received praise and communicating with people in different ways, ways specific to that particular person. I'm sure Our Lord cares, but only in so much as it is beneficial to His child...not that He would reject any particular form of prayer simply because of the manner in which it is engaged. Does that makes sense?

[CatherineM]

I was thinking about this post this morning. I was thinking about Jesus' parable where the shepherd left the herd to find the one lost sheep. Seems like he would be most pleased to hear the prayers of a true sinner, at least I hope so for my sake.

[StColette]

[quote name='virginiancatholic' post='1871049' date='May 19 2009, 02:56 PM']As the goal of personal prayer is communion with God and a participation in the life of the Church, I would think that Our Blessed Lord is capable of received praise and communicating with people in different ways, ways specific to that particular person. I'm sure Our Lord cares, but only in so much as it is beneficial to His child...not that He would reject any particular form of prayer simply because of the manner in which it is engaged. Does that makes sense?[/quote]

Make sense to me. This thread made me think of little kids and how cute they are when they try to pray. Try as they might most of them have great difficulty mastering certain words. For some reason "hallowed" is not an easy word for a lot of kids.

I know when I was little at meal time prayer I would say brownie instead of bounty.