The rule for distinguishing between correct and incorrect prayer

Even during Christ’s lifetime, a great one came to him most people ask for healing in illness, restoration of sight, and bread miraculously multiplied. And yet he fundamentally beat out some pleas or did not hear them immediately and as people would like. So how do we know each other in evaluating prayer requests? St. Augustine set the basic rule: «We can pray for what we can desire what we can desire for ourselves and others.” Prayer for something wrong is ruled out. Holy. Gregor Nazianz speaks ironically against those who would like to
WE SAW HIS GLORY harm the neighbor’s prayer The Father: «What a father invoke? Not one who is in heaven and gives only good!
Your father, whom you ask for evil, is Satan, the spirit of hatred. .. »Pray for conscious evil God will not hear, lead him simultaneously, such a petition offends and is sinful. This occurs as we hope, very rarely, and reveals a perverted character. Often, however, we wish to achieve something in which nothing is wrong we do not see: have success, money, place. Can we laugh at that pray? According to the principle of St. Augustine is not, of course, nothing wrong with asking for what we long for. After all, however, striving for similar values ​​has its limits. We must not want to get rich by stealing, to get better
Instead of fraud, taking care of the body harming the soul. Work and the pursuit of some values ​​must stop where it would they were no longer suitable, but slightly evil. Prayerful prayer also wants to involve God in life efforts for success and prosperity. It must always be conditional. It always thinks about what is so nicely expressed
in the novena in honor of St. Francis Xaver: «If not what I ask for the salvation of my soul, then I ask you ask me something else, more necessary! » Then, of course, nothing would seem more perfect
not to choose or even for anything, specifically not to ask. some is that the perfect one, the more indifferent he is. He cares little about what the worldly cares so much about people. About St. Gertrude writes that she more often promised her acquaintances that she would pray for their affairs. Hardly, though she prayed, forgot everything. But God did#he heard about it. No wonder, then, that it seems better to some people not to beg for anything unusual. Liz Socrates
he said that prayer was enough to make us gods merciful. They attribute this opinion to Wyclef. They can favoring this, to include the texts of Scripture, e.g. from the letter Romans- (8, 26): We do not even know what to pray for. However, if we took such an indifference quite consistently, then nothing would be left of the prayer of supplication, which, after all, is so widespread in all religions and confirmed in the Gospel: You will get everything you want begging in faith in prayer (Mt 21:22). The Church, therefore, grants pleas for all that is good and for all that we consider good if this is done with modest judgment in the appropriateness or unsuitability of fulfillment. Such a prayer is always heard, though I guess differently than we thought. For only the petition that is with Christ and in Christ is sufficient.