The Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer (I)
September 2020 withdrawal
By: Fr. Nivardo Quezada, LC
We recommend that you read, before watching and listening to the retreat “The Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer (I)”, guidelines for making a spiritual retreat, suggested by the Regnum Christi Resource Center.
First thought
Our first prayer, in a sense, was the cry that accompanied our first breath. In that newborn cry, the destiny of our entire life was announced: our continuous hunger, our continuous thirst, our search for happiness. Jesus, in prayer, does not want to extinguish the human, he does not want to anesthetize. He does not want us to modify our questions and petitions, learning to endure everything. Instead, he wants every suffering, every worry, to be cast toward heaven and become dialogue. To have faith, a person used to say, is to get used to the cry (Pope Francis, Hearing of December 12, 2018).
Second thought
It is an act of faith in me, who am small, sinful, and needy. And for this reason, prayer to ask for something is very noble. God is the Father who has immense compassion for us and wants his children to speak to him without fear, directly calling him «Father»; or in difficulties saying: «But Lord, what have you done to me?». For this reason, we can tell him everything, even the things in our lives that seem twisted and incomprehensible. And he has promised us that he would be with us forever, until the last of the days we spend on this earth. Let us pray the Our Father, beginning like this, simply: «Father» or «Dad». And He understands us and loves us so much (H.H. Francis, Hearing of December 12, 2018).
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