1. Francisco Palau, a man of prayer.
  • Prayer illuminates his path of union with God.
  • The centrality of the Church in prayer.
  • Advanced disciple of Saint Teresa.

HOW FRANCISCO PALAU PRAYS

  1. Prayer of petition and intercession
  • The prayer of gazing.
  • Prayer of deliverance, exorcisms.
  • Liturgical prayer.
  • Prayer in life.

HOW HE TEACHES TO PRAY

1.Mystagogy

  • Francisco Palau as mystagogue.
  • The core of prayer is the ecclesial mystery of communion. It is grounded in the Gospel and this is its nourishment and strength.
  • It is a free gift from God but requires the acceptance of the person for God to act.
  • Determination is needed.
  • The training process has to be administered in due time, gradually and gently, according to their capacity and disposition.
  • It takes into account the whole person.
  • Since the physical and moral constitution of man is such, his progress and his march along the path of virtues requires and demands a gradual and lifelong education, because in the school of Christ, learning is our whole life (cf. EVV 404-405).
  • The rightness of adopting and choosing a suitable way of transmitting the content of the faith (EVV 403).

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE PALAUTIAN PRAYER

Dialogical, personal and communitarian prayer.

Prayer, a matter of three.

The pedagogical value of mediations.

The interiorization of prayer.

Trinitarian experience

Gratuitous experience

INTERWOVEN WITH HISTORY AND LIFE

  1. Francisco Palau prays in life and with life.

“-I will not let you be alone from now on,” she said to me with much love.

-When you see me alone, will you be with me?

-Yes, and also when you are in company, because I am the neighbors united among themselves by love under Christ, my Head; and when you are with them you are with me and I am in you” (MRel 799).

  • The connaturality of Palautian prayer.
  • In spirit and truth. Simplicity and transcendence.

THE SIGN OF “SILENCE” IN PALAUTIAN PRAYER

  1. Silence of God.
  • Silence of the prayer.
  • Silence of creation.

SOLITUDE

  1. “In solitude I lived”
  • Solitude, the place of encounter.

Authors: Mª Dolores Jara CM, Pilar Munill CM, 100 fichas sobre Francisco Palau, Ed. Monte Carmelo, Burgos 2010, pp.267-288.

Translation: Aleksandra Nawrocka CMT