Given that God interacts with us as individuals as well as Community, there is one very important implication of this attribute of God.
As community, God calls all of us to the Mass as prayer, as worship. AND as individuals, He calls us uniquely to personal prayer; just as he calls each of us to our own specific vocation.
As St. Paul tells us:
“there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.(1 Corinthians 12: 5,6)
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? (1 Corinthians 12: 29,30)
Even as clergy the Catholic Church recognizes Dominicans, Jesuits, Carmelites, Franciscans, and so on. In section 2699the Catechism says,
The Lord leads all persons by paths and in ways pleasing to him, and each believer responds according to his heart’s resolve and the personal expressions of his prayer. (emphasis added)
Consequently, the way I pray privately is most likely not the way you pray.
So just as your life is similar in some ways yet decidedly different from everyone else, so your prayer life may be similar is some ways to that of others, and yet it too will be decidedly different.
In Christ, Ken.
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