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Prayer and Its Understanding in Student Life
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The increasing popularity of secularism, atheism and modern God-rejecting philosophies can be observed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Modern people, and youth in particular, feel increasingly confused in today’s world of weakening faith, growing popularity of occultism and fear of the apparently approaching end of the world. Therefore, I have asked my students what prayer means to them, how they define it, how they pray, what they pray for and whether they think that their prayers are heard. Students have distinguished several types of prayers: the prayer of worship and thanksgiving, and the prayer of supplication and propitiation. According to them, prayer is an important expression of personal and spiritual maturity and is also proof that they understand their existential condition. They see prayer as a reality that unites the supernatural with the natural and the human, the expression of one’s transcendence and, above all, the expression and experience of one’s subjectivity and dependence on God. Prayer is also a kind of human decision and judgment of oneself and the world in the context of how this world is understood and how its relationship to God is perceived. Prayer as a religious act that connects man with God cannot be omitted in the pedagogical discourse. It has its place in the pedagogy of prayer and the upbringing of man for prayer. The pedagogical dimension of prayer is shown in anthropological terms by presenting the relationship between man and God (the purpose and fulfilment of a human person). Prayer is not only an acknowledgment of man’s openness to God (the existence of man thanks to God, towards God, for God, the desire of God and fulfilment in God), but it also requires work and the formation of man for prayer, which are the tasks of pedagogy.
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