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Sunday, July 27, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13.
In this week’s Sunday Gospel, the Lord gives three prescriptions for prayer.
The Gospel opens in response to a request, “Lord, teach us to pray.” The Lord gives the Our Father. Luke’s version is substantially similar but a little different from Matthew’s.
There are five basic disciplines taught in the Our Father.
We now go on to the next prescription.
Continued below.
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In this week’s Sunday Gospel, the Lord gives three prescriptions for prayer.
The Gospel opens in response to a request, “Lord, teach us to pray.” The Lord gives the Our Father. Luke’s version is substantially similar but a little different from Matthew’s.
There are five basic disciplines taught in the Our Father.
We are praying to our Father, who loves us, who provides for us, and who sent his only Son to die for us and save us. At the heart of our worship and prayer is a deep and personal experience of God’s love and fatherly care for us.
Praise and love God; praise and thanksgiving make us people of hope and joy.
A basic component and discipline of prayer and the spiritual life is receiving the word and instruction of God, so that his will might be manifest in our obedience.
Allow “bread” to be a symbol of all our needs. Take every opportunity to pray for others.
Sin is understood on two levels: our personal sins and the whole climate of sin, the structures of sin that reinforce and underlie our own sins (referred to here as “evil”).
We now go on to the next prescription.
Continued below.
3 Teachings From the Lord on Prayer
In this week’s Sunday Gospel, the Lord gives a trio of prescriptions.
