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Deepen your prayer Choose any lesson. There is no score, quiz, or placement — each series teaches the Church’s own vocabulary for the life of prayer, from its primary sources.
A path, if you want one
Start here: The Prayer Loop — this app's own walk, step by step. Deepen the prayer you already say: Teach Us to Pray — The Lord's Prayer — the Our Father, slowed down. Understand the movements of the heart: The Discernment of Spirits — consolation, desolation, and the rules for telling them apart. Take the long view: Stages of the Spiritual Life — how charity grows over a lifetime. When prayer feels dry: begin with Step 7 of The Prayer Loop , then The Battle of Prayer , then The Dark Night . If the dryness is heavy or long, bring it to a priest or a spiritual director. Companions, not lessons: the Weekly Examen , the Psalms by feeling ,Mental Prayer , and the Holy Hour walk beside the loop.
The Prayer Loop 8 lessons This app's own walk, taught step by step: begin, read the day's Gospel slowly, notice the one word that stands out, journal a few honest lines, sit with the question, and seal the day — what to do on the mornings nothing stirs — and the holy hour: how to sit with Jesus in adoration, step by step. Teach Us to Pray — The Lord's Prayer 7 lessons The prayer Jesus himself gave, slowed down petition by petition: adoration first, trust in daily need, forgiveness as fruit, and vigilance without fear — the summary of the whole Gospel, taught as a school for all the rest of prayer. The Discernment of Spirits 14 lessons St. Ignatius's fourteen rules for telling consolation from desolation — the Church's vocabulary for the movements of the heart, never a verdict about your soul. The Battle of Prayer 3 lessons The Catechism's own teaching on the fight to pray: the objections that rise against prayer, what to do with distractions, and why the answer is to keep knocking. Stages of the Spiritual Life 5 lessons The purgative, illuminative, and unitive ways — the Church's map of how charity grows over a lifetime. A map for hope and orientation, never for self-diagnosis. The Dark Night 3 lessons What the tradition means by the dark night: dryness as the Catechism names it, the night in Scripture, and what to do in it — definitions, never a diagnosis.
