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Welcome to Day 1 of Teach Us to Pray!

Today let's spend our 15 minutes praying with Psalm 139:1-16.

As we begin mental prayer we want to explore a fundamental question: How should we begin in prayer? St. Ignatius of Loyola offers us some important pointers. PS - If you didn't get a chance to read the introduction to Teach Us to Pray, here it is again: https://gosfa.us/intro

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Welcome to Day 1 of Teach Us to Pray!

Today let's spend our 15 minutes praying with Psalm 139:1-16.