St. Pope John Paul II

Christians who have received the gift of a vocation to the specially consecrated life are of course called to prayer in a particular way...But it would be wrong to think that ordinary Christians can be content with a shallow prayer that is unable to fill their whole life.  Especially in the face of the many trials to which today's world subjects faith, they would be not only mediocre Christians but "Christians at risk".  They would run the insidious risk of seeing their faith progressively undermined, and would perhaps end up succumbing to the allure of "substitutes", accepting alternative religious proposals and even indulging in far-fetched superstitions.

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It is therefore essential that education in prayer should become in some way a key-point of all pastoral planning.

Novo Millennio Ineunte, Par. 34