As a help to navigating these realities, the Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us three facts about prayer: 1) It is always possible to pray; 2) Prayer is a necessity; and 3) Prayer and Christian life are inseparable. We need prayer just like we need food and oxygen. The Catechism reminds us: “Nothing is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy…. For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin.”Prayer is the blood pressure of the soul. This I command you, to love one another.’”Spiritual wisdom explains: “He ‘prays without ceasing’ who unites prayer to works and good works to prayer.