Reference text: Luke 11:1-4
The Gospel today contains the request by the disciples for a teaching on prayer, and the answer Jesus offered contained what is known as “the Lord’s prayer. While reading the text today, a message from Mass a few years ago which I had stored came to mind and that is what I share for us to reflect on:
Do not say ‘our’, if you live selfishly and in isolation,
Do not say ‘father’ if you don’t act like a son always,
Don’t say ‘are in heaven’ if you think only of earthly things,
Don’t say ‘Hallowed’ if you don’t worship Him,
Don’t say ‘your Kindgom come’ if you interprete that only to mean material success,
Don’t say ‘your will be done’ if you have no intention to accept this will when it is difficult, painful or inconvenient,
Don’t say ‘give us our daily bread’ if you’re not worried about the hungry and those without a means of sustenance,
Don’t say ‘forgive us our sins’ if you bear grudges and hold faults against others,
Don’t say ‘lead us not into temptation’ if you intend to sin,
Don’t say ‘deliver us from evil’ if you don’t take a stand against evil,
Don’t say ‘Amen’ if you do not take the words of our father seriously
Simple words indeed, but very heavy implications.
#sly
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