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January 9, 2020
Dear Family of Mary!
Dear Family of Mary!
"...My children, my Son pronounced the words of the 'Our Father'-Our Father, [You] who are everywhere and in our hearts-because He desires to teach you to pray with words and feelings. He desires for you to always be better, to live merciful love which is prayer and limitless sacrifice for others..." (January 2, 2020)
The "Our Father" is at the heart of our Catholic prayer life.
We pray it just before receiving Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. We
pray it in the Rosary, in the Divine Office, and in the Divine Mercy
Chaplet, and in almost all Novenas. When we pray the Our Father, we feel
we are praying with Jesus, using His words, and approaching the Father
with His dispositions. And we are!! Jesus taught us how to pray.
Here is what it says in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
(PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER, SECTION TWO THE LORD'S PRAYER, Article 1 "THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL", II. The Lord's Prayer) Here is what it says in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
II. The Lord's Prayer
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The traditional expression "the Lord's Prayer" - Oratio Dominica -
means that the prayer to our Father is taught and given to us by the
Lord Jesus. The prayer that comes to us from Jesus is truly unique: it
is "of the Lord." On the one hand, in the words of this prayer the only
Son gives us the words the Father gave him:13 he is the master of our
prayer. On the other, as Word incarnate, he knows in his human heart the
needs of his human brothers and sisters and reveals them to us: he is
the model of our prayer.
2766 But Jesus does not give
us a formula to repeat mechanically.14 As in every vocal prayer, it is
through the Word of God that the Holy Spirit teaches the children of God
to pray to their Father. Jesus not only gives us the words of our
filial prayer; at the same time he gives us the Spirit by whom these
words become in us "spirit and life."15 Even more, the proof and
possibility of our filial prayer is that the Father "sent the Spirit of
his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'"16 Since our prayer
sets forth our desires before God, it is again the Father, "he who
searches the hearts of men," who "knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of
God."17 The prayer to Our Father is inserted into the mysterious mission
of the Son and of the Spirit.
(13Cf. Jn 17:7. 14 Cf. Mt 6:7; 1 Kings 18:26-29. 15 Jn 6:63. 16 Gal 4:6. 17 Rom 8:27.)
Jesus gave us His own prayer, so that we could pray with His
words and feelings, and we could ask for what He desires for us to ask.
Jesus gave us everything we need to know to find our way to His Father.
We are the most blessed to have such a Brother and Lord.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2020
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2020
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