prayer

At the beginning of his Pontificate, Pope John Paul II declared: For me, prayer is the first priority. Prayer is the basic prerequisite to service of the Church and the world... Every believer should always think of prayer as an essential and indispensable component of one’s vocation. It is the ‘opus divinum’ which precedes and overshadows every work We well know that faithfulness to prayer, or its neglect, is a test of the vitality of spiritual life, apostolate and Christian fidelity (John Paul II, Address 7 October 1979). 

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