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The more we resemble Christ by patient acceptance of unavoidable suffering, the closer to Him we are, as we hold His wounded hands, and pray with and through Him to our Father in Heaven, to help others.

One who is shaped and tested by suffering can plead with Christ before the Father, to help other souls.

Through Christ and His saints our prayers are channelled to the Faithful Departed

As I kneel in prayer, in all my weakness, like a beggar in rags before Christ: He loves me! He loves me with warmth and affection!

With Christ, our prayer is worthwhile. We do not have to pray with eloquence - but with faith and hope and love.

Christ's prayer and mine are one, in the silence after receiving Holy Communion. My guardian angel stands guard beside me.

With Christ, our prayer is worthwhile. We do not have to pray with eloquence - but with faith and hope and love.

We prepare our hearts, to offer a holy sacrifice to God in prayer, by doing penance for our sins. When we place the tinder of penance on the altar in our hearts, Christ sets it ablaze, as a fragrant offering for Heaven, given in love.

What a huge offering ascends from our small altar, as Christ prays our one prayer, hands outstretched to the Father.

We prepare our hearts, to offer a holy sacrifice to God in prayer, by doing penance for our sins. When we place the tinder of penance on the altar in our hearts, Christ sets it ablaze, as a fragrant offering for Heaven, given in love.

In the Sacred Liturgy, just as in our personal prayer, we rely on the power of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit makes us cry out to the Father, as we pray with Christ.

If we look towards Christ with our hearts and minds uncluttered, we can forget ourselves in the joy of knowing Him. We can lean on His Heart and wait for deliverance, full of His joy and peace.

I leaned on His heart, in Communion, waiting for His will to be made plain; there was no need for speech.

We sat in prayer together. I saw the vast throng of Heaven who worship God unceasingly, in and through Christ our Saviour.

Jesus waits with infinite patience and kindness, when I have decided to pray, but find that I am distracted by thoughts of the work I've been doing.

Christ my Lord waited patiently until the pain subsided. My desire to pray was as pleasing to Him as my words.

By faith in Christ, freely given to us, we are led to intercede for others and help them in their difficulties.

If we become one with Christ in suffering (patiently borne) we become one with Him in prayer.

We can only find intimacy with God in prayer if we approach him through the 'door' of humility and discover the vast universe within the soul.