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There are different kinds of prayer, as determined by what it seeks or is trying to say: Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication.

Adoration is the praising and honoring of God for who he is and all he has done.

Contrition/Confession is the awareness and expression of being merely a human, weak and flawed. We make mistakes, we fail, we fall.  God loved us before we existed and knows all our faults, he is merciful and forgives no matter how many times we fail.

Thanksgiving is joyous praise of God. Thanking God for everything, good and bad. 

Supplication We ask God for what we need. All prayer is asking. The Our Father is a list of petitions, from "hallowed be thy name" to "deliver us from evil." 

"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."

- CCC, no 2558, citing St. Therese of Liseux, Manuscrits Autobiographiques, C 25r