These prayers can be split up into Adoration Prayers which means praising and honouring God, Thanksgiving Prayers which are prayers to thank God, Confession Prayers which are prayers to repent are sins to God, Intercession Prayers which are prayers for someone else besides you or and community and last of all Petition Prayers which are prayers for yourself.
Not all Christian pray in the same way. Some Christian use aids to help them focus on their prayers. Roman Catholics use the rosary and statues as aids to prayer. Orthodox use icons to help them focus in prayer. Icons are a big part in Orthodox prayer. They will use the icons as representation of the saint they are praying to. They also stand up in their masses as a sign of respect to God.
Quakers are different. They sit in a circle or square around a table in the centre of the room. They sit in silence and meditate. This meditation is broken when somebody wants to talk. They can talk about many things including their own lives. The room is simply. It has no prayer aids at all. Unlike Roman Catholics and Orthodox they don’t use the Lord’s Prayer.
Evangelical Christians use the extempore prayer. This type of prayer is spontaneous. Like the Roman Catholics and Orthodox they focus the mass on the bible. Evangelicals use meditation to help them focus and they too use the Lord’s Prayer in their worship to God.
The Jesus Prayer can help you in meditation. This prayer can help you focus on God and repeating the prayer, will keep your mind on God. Christians use the Lord’s Prayer because it is only about God. This helps people focus on their prayer and it is also used with meditation.
Overall both prayers are very important. Both prayers are also important because they are so old. Even when languages were changed (Latin to English) the original meaning of the prayer was never altered. This alone makes the prayers very special.
