A New Version of the Lord’s Prayer?
Relax! It is more of rhetorical question than anything else.
For the last three years or so (since I was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church), I have thought about writing a deep reflection of the Lord's Prayer. Carlos, the Man on a Quest, beat me to it.
His insights in his latest blog post are quite poignant, and very accurate. We do breeze through the prayer as though it were only another milestone between breakfast and the NFL game that afternoon. We do fail to hang on every word and think about what we really are asking. We fail to recognize that there is a huge difference between "Th" and "M;" between "Thy will" and "My will." All too often, the people praying the Lord's prayer replace the former with the latter (figuratively, of course).
A most difficult task it is to be sincere when asking that God's will be done in every situation. Yet, that is what Our Lord expected when He gave this prayer to His disciples. No longer can we forget that His will supercedes our own...no matter what we think or want!
God Bless.
For the last three years or so (since I was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church), I have thought about writing a deep reflection of the Lord's Prayer. Carlos, the Man on a Quest, beat me to it.
His insights in his latest blog post are quite poignant, and very accurate. We do breeze through the prayer as though it were only another milestone between breakfast and the NFL game that afternoon. We do fail to hang on every word and think about what we really are asking. We fail to recognize that there is a huge difference between "Th" and "M;" between "Thy will" and "My will." All too often, the people praying the Lord's prayer replace the former with the latter (figuratively, of course).
A most difficult task it is to be sincere when asking that God's will be done in every situation. Yet, that is what Our Lord expected when He gave this prayer to His disciples. No longer can we forget that His will supercedes our own...no matter what we think or want!
God Bless.