CCC 2653
Christian Prayer›SECTION ONE PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE›CHAPTER TWO THE TRADITION OF PRAYER›Article 1 AT THE WELLSPRINGS OF PRAYER
The Church "forcefully and specially exhorts all the Christian faithful . . . to learn 'the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ' ( Phil 3:8) by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures.... Let them remember, however, that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that a dialogue takes place between God and man. For 'we speak to him when we pray; we listen to him when we read the divine oracles."'
Footnotes
- DV 25; cf. ⇒ Phil 3:8; St. Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum 1, 20,88: PL 16, 50.
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