Prayer

the long version

"Prayer is attention to God's coming into our life, a recognition of the grace of the present hour, and unfailing vigilance for the Lord's calling. It is the most personal and most personalizing event in human life. Nothing brings people closer together in oneness, brotherhood and solidarity than to call the one God 'Our Father', to know Christ as the 'man for all mankind', and to rely on the grace of the Holy Spirit who, through his manifold gifts, is building up the unity of the whole human race."