Within such private prayer, one can gain a sensitivity to the movements of the Holy Spirit, thereby becoming alert to the ways in which God is leading one to a particular vocation, apostolate, or other task. Such prayer of communion with God provides important spiritual sustenance to living out the Christian pilgrimage. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Matthew 6:5-6) Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Immediately before the Transfiguration-Luke 9:28: Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.īefore teaching the Our Father-Luke 11:1: He was praying in a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”īefore the crucifixion in the Garden of Gethsemane-Matthew 26:36-45 Mark 14:32-41 Luke 22:39-46.Ĭoming from his own experience of private personal prayer, Jesus teaches his disciples to do the same: Immediately before choosing his twelve apostles-Luke 6:12: In these days he went into the hills to pray and all night he continued in prayer to God.īefore Peter’s profession of faith that Jesus is the Christ-Luke 9:18: Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him and he asked them, “Who do the people say that I am?”
Luke in particular, take note of Jesus going off for private prayer:Īfter the multiplication of loaves-Mark 6:46: And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. According to early Jewish-Christian tradition, Jesus often prayed at a small grotto on the southeastern side of the Mount of Beatitudes, just across from Tabgha, the modern name for the area where he multiplied the loaves and fishes. He goes off early in the day, before anyone else is awake to notice him, to a lonely place for prayerful communion with his Father. This verse, so early in Jesus’ public ministry, gives the first of many examples of personal private prayer in his life (the parallel version is Luke 4:42).
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