4 Errors to avoid when thinking about prayer

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In the Catholic Church, there are right ways to think about prayer and there are wrong ways. Here are a few of the errors that the Church specifically mentions.

Prayer is certainly a broad topic in the Catholic Church, but at the same time, it does have its limits.

The topic of prayer does not cover everything, and there are right and wrong ways to pray in the Christian tradition.

The Catechism of the Catholic Churchexplains, “In the battle of prayer, we must face in ourselves and around us erroneous notions of prayer” (CCC 2726).


The Catechism then lists the following four errors that we should all try to avoid when thinking about prayer.

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PRAYER IS NOT SIMPLY A PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY

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