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This prayer is an expression of thanks for the love God has given the people. [4]: 419–20 It thanks God for the gift of the Torah, which provides life, [5]: 92 and for making the Jewish people the chosen nation. [5]: 363 The prayer contains multiple requests to God. One of them is to be enlightened with the Torah.
Deus caritas est (English: "God is Love"), subtitled De Christiano Amore (Of Christian Love), is a 2005 encyclical, the first written by Pope Benedict XVI, in large part derived from writings by his late predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Its subject is love, as seen from a Christian perspective, and God's place within all love.
Roman Catholic teachings on the subject of prayer are contained in the Catechism, where quoting John of Damascus, prayer is defined as "… the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God". Thérèse of Lisieux describes prayer as "… a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a ...
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Commenting upon the command to love the neighbor [5] is a discussion recorded [6] between Rabbi Akiva, who declared this verse in Leviticus to contain the great principle of the Law ("Kelal gadol ba-Torah"), and Ben Azzai, who pointed to Genesis 5:1 ("This is the book of the generations of Adam; in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him"), as the verse expressing the ...
The people of God are challenged to include prayer in their everyday life, even in the busy struggles of marriage (1 Corinthians 7:5) as it is thought to bring the faithful closer to God. Throughout the New Testament, prayer is shown to be God's appointed method by which the faithful obtain what he has to bestow (Matthew 7:7–11; Matthew 9:24 ...