20 Feb 2024
Our Father
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For 20 February 2024, Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent, based on Matthew 6:7-15
Jesus said to his disciples, ‘When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
‘Pray then in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not bring us to the time of trial,
but rescue us from the evil one.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
21 February 2024 @ 2:27 am
Thank you Fr Costantino.
21 February 2024 @ 4:05 am
Grateful, Fr. Costantino, for your insights into today’s prayer, the “Our Father.” It touched me when you mentioned “Prayer rises out of filial affection.” I was blessed to always have this kind of relationship with my own father. I appreciated the thought of Jesus teaching his disciples that as his intimacy was with the Father so too, we can call God, our father. And your words that God is in no hurry to judge us. May we take Jesus’s words into our hearts and have the faith, hope and trust like children to be received in the loving arms of OurFather.
God bless your continued preaching,
Brigid, OP