There are four distinct kinds of Christian prayer: There is Incarnational prayer, Mystical prayer, Affective prayer, and Priestly prayer. What are these? How are they different from each other?
One must be careful in doing this. God doesn’t cause accidents, sickness, heartbreak, wars, famine, earthquakes, global warming, or pandemics; neither does God cause lottery wins or our favourite sports team to win a championship, but God speaks through them. We pray incarnationally when we pick up that voice.
Affective Prayer. All devotional prayers are ultimately affective prayer, as are all forms of meditation and contemplation. They all have the same intentionality. What is that? In the Gospel of John, the first words out of Jesus’ mouth are a question. People are looking at Him in curiosity, and He asks them, “What are you looking for?” That question remains throughout the rest of the Gospel as an undergirding.
Priestly Prayer. Priestly prayer is the prayer of Christ through the Church for the world. The Christian belief is that Christ is still gathering us together around His word and the Eucharist. And we believe that whenever we come together, in a church or elsewhere, to gather around the Scriptures or to celebrate the Eucharist, we are entering into that prayer. This is generally called liturgical prayer; this kind of prayer is Christ’s prayer, not our own.
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