1. Ways to Pray Peter Fitch, St. Croix Vineyard Sunday, July 24, 2016

2. Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Do justice Love kindness Walk humbly with your God

3. Daniel Ariely: (Dis)Honesty—The Truth about Lies We need a moral guidance system We need to be reminded of it from time to time

4. Even better than doing the right thing... Becoming the right thing Becoming the best version of ourselves One of the things that can help is “walking humbly with our God” This would relate to many aspects of life It also relates, for many people, to learning how to pray

5. Many forms of Prayer Meditation Contemplation Intercession One useful pattern is called ACTS Adoration Confession Thanksgiving Supplication

6. Probably different styles work best for different people This is the theory of Father Chester Michael and his colleague, Marie Norrisey

7. Myers—Briggs Preferences (Attitude) E—I Extrovert/Introvert (Function) S—N Sensing/Intuition (Function) T—F Thinking/Feeling (Attitude) J—P Judging/Perceiving

8. Personality Types Hippocrates—4 types: Sanguine (blood from heart), Choleric (yellow bile from liver), Phlegmatic (phlegm from lungs), Melancholic (black bile from kidneys) Carl Jung—8 types: two attitudes toward life (extraversion and introversion) and four operating functions (sensation, intuition, thinking, feeling) Myers-Briggs—16 types David Kiersey—4 types: SJ, SP, NT, NF

9. Putting it all Together Keirsey used the names of 4 Greek gods Michael and Norrisey use 4 Christian saints These might connect to the types of Hippocrates in this way: SJ—Epimethean—Melancholic—Ignatius Loyola SP—Dionysian—Sanguine—Francis of Assisi NT—Promethean—Phlegmatic—Thomas Aquinas NF—Apollonian—Choleric—Augustine of Hippo

10. Gary Smalley and John Trent Beaver Otter Lion Golden Retriever (Thought I understood how these related to the other titles but now I’m confused...)

11. Anyway, Michael and Norrisey offer 4 kinds of prayer SJ—Ignatian... Projection: we project ourselves into the original events so that we become a part of them (p. 54) SP—Franciscan... Celebrating God’s goodness in any aspect of creation, much of life can become prayer, often open to the flow of God’s Spirit within them (p. 77) NT—Thomistic... Logical, rational, discursive meditation and analysis NF—Augustinian... Transposition: transposing the words of Scripture to our situation today

12. Luke 7: 36-50 Example of Ignatian Prayer 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38 She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.

13. Luke 7: 36-50 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him— that she is a sinner.” 40 Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Teacher,” he replied, “speak.” 41 “A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?”

14. Luke 7: 36-50 43 Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.” 44 Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

15. Luke 7:36-50 4 7 Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” 48 Then he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” 49 But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” 50 And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

16. Thomistic Ask questions of the text (use the 6 interrogatives) What is God like? What can we learn about Him in this story?

17. Augustinian Think about how the passage relates to things going on in your life right now What is God saying to you in this story?

18. Homework: Example of Franciscan Prayer Go outside; look for two trees: one which resembles the kind of person you would like to be or your goal in life, another which expresses in some way the kind of person you see yourself to be now. Decide what you need to do in order to change from the way you now are to the way you would like to be or the way God would like you to be. Prayer and Temperament: Different Prayer Forms for Different Personality Types Chester Michael and Marie Norrisey