“IN PRAYING, DO NOT BABBLE LIKE THE PAGANS,WHO THINK THAT THEY WILL BE HEARD BECAUSE OF THEIR MANY WORDS.” MT 6:7-15
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
St. Augustine said, “Run through all of the words of the holy prayers (in Scripture), and I do not think you find anything that is not contained and included in the Lord’s Prayer.”
Our Father (many of the saints stopped here thanking God for allowing them to call Him Father, Pope Francis says Abba means Dad-Do you allow Him to wrap His arms around you like a loving Father?) who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name:
Dear God, I bring myself into your presence humbly as a sinner who needs your mercy to worship, adore, glorify, praise, and thank you. Thank you for allowing me to call you Daddy and thank you for calling me son/daughter.
thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven:
I submit my will to you, please give me the courage, strength, and grace to follow it. I completely surrender and trust in you.
Give us this day our daily bread:
Thank you for taking care of our every need, I trust in you. Please help me recognize the needs of others and help them. Thank you for the everlasting sustaining Bread that is your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us:
please send me your grace to forgive so I may forgive like You, help me not to judge incorrectly or label, have mercy on my soul.
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (protect us from the Devil).
Today’s challenge: Make sure the Our Father is the first words on our lips each morning so we have the right perspective going into each day. Enter God’s heart by humbling yourself before Him, empty yourself so that He can fill you up to be an instrument of love, thank Him for sustaining you each day and providing us with His life (grace) by faithfully receiving the sacraments, ask for the grace to forgive, for mercy, and protection from Satan.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YOLO
Today we are told that the rain and snow water crops and make them fertile so does the word of God. Its saying that God’s word will make us strong and like the plants that grow from the Earth so too will we grow in the faith but unlike the plants who grow from the water from the heaven, we grow from the words from the mouth of God.
The prayer that Jesus gave us has a lot of meaning and its worth wile paying atention and understanding the prayer. That is a prayer that Jesus gave us so we sould say it often.
Today God provides us with a way to love him. The Our Father is very important cause it means something. When we say the Our father we can trust that God hears us and that he is there. This prayer helps us to focus on God and love him for he is with us always and providing for us.
“If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you” we NEED to forgive people more, even if you don’t have the courage to say it to their face, just don’t hold grudges against them because it’ll drag you down. If we learn to forgive others then others will forgive us.
In the gospel Jesus is teaching us how to pray. He says
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans,who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”
I think He is telling us that prayer has meaning. It isn’t just words we say because we have memorized them, but each time we pray those words have meaning and a purpose. And not just going through the motions but thinking about what we are saying and what we are asking God for.
“If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” This stuck out to me because God is telling us that we need to forgive others for the things they did to us. He wants to and will forgive us also but we need to forgive others first so we can go to Him with a clean heart and mind. We need to love Him and believe that He will forgive us. We need to ask others for forgiveness if we feel like we have done something wrong to them.
We are being told how to pray and get Gods attention and there is a more likely hood that they will be answered. You just need to pray this short little prayer instead of the long and lengthy ones that you don’t know what your saying at that point and your just saying stuff to say it.
If we rush through our prayers and do not take the time to understand what we are saying and give our full selves to God, then how can we call that prayer yes we maybe saying the words but where is our mind and hearts in order to pray correctly turn yourself fully to God.
God already knows what we need before we ask, and the right time for it. If we ask we will receive just as we ask our parents, we ask God and it may not be right away.
Our Father to thank because we wake up in the morning with air in our lungs we are meant to be here and God has his reasons. when we turn away from God he is still waiting for us and invites us with open arms.
The are father is to Jesus thanking him loveing him praising him.He loves you and you have got to trust in him and he already trusts in you.
This gospel is very important, because it gives us a standard for prayer. Jesus reveals to us a perfect prayer to pray, and tells us that just because we say it, does not mean we pray it. Sitting in quiet and the peace of God while not saying anything is better than simply saying the words. To pray, you have to lift your mind and soul up to God. That is literally what the word means. Sometimes it’s hard to focus, to stay intent on praying. Simply get back on track, and start praying again. If it’s still hard to focus, simply sit. Don’t say anything, but sit. imagine all of your thoughts getting rolled into a ball, and then throw it up. Throw it way up into heaven to God, and he will take it all away. Then, invite the spirit. Then Pray…
i think today it is saying we need to pray revrently and not say abunch of random stuff. we need to pay attention to what we say whenever we pray.
Today’s gospel sticks out to me because of the fact that Jesus says that you honor your neighbor and forgive and you act right God will always love you so go out and tell the news.
In today’s scripture Jesus says “This is how you are to pray:
Our Father who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come,thy will be done,on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.” I feel like Jesus is teaching us how to pray so we have no excuses and truly pray to him. Jesus wants us to follow him and he wants us to pray. Jesus did all of this to teach us and die for us for our own good. He knew what was right for us and we should continue to follow him.
This gospel lists, “The Our Father.” It also lists what each and every petition means. At the start, it talks about God being a Father to us and how he loves us. After that, it states that we want to praise Him. Then we ask for strength and we thank him for everything. We also ask for grace to forgive those who hurt us. Finally, we ask God to protect us from the devil. If we pray the Our Father every day, we will soon get to heaven and become a Saint.
We need to really think deep into what prayers and prayer intentions mean. I believe that every prayer has a hidden meaning, we just need to meditate on what it means and how we can fulfill it. Everyday, we are making a promise to God to be our best selves and be selfless for the needs of others. God does have a way with your life, and will eventually call you home to Him. That, is why we need to pray and not just go through the motions.
Today’s Scripture is about all the different prayers and goes in depth about them.Jesus will protect us from the devil.We need to have Grace to forgive.Sometimes forgiving can be hard but we have to learn that we all make mistakes because none of us our perfect.
Something that I got from this is that we need to forgive others, this is so important for us getting into heaven, and is just a good thing for us to practice. We need to strive to forgive like Jesus, even though we never will, we need to try, Jesus forgave the people that killed him, the people that whipped him, the people that nailed him to the cross, and if we can’t even forgive people for the simple things, than we will not be able to do it for important things.
You need to pray in simple words to the Lord. Talk to him as if he were your parents or as a friend. Jesus is not a vending machine where you ask Him something and your wish is granted. He is your best friend and will help you through your toughest times and your best times. Forgive others and you shall be forgiven.
I think what God is telling us here is that we need to mean what we say in prayer do not just say random things with a little bit of Gods and other words you need to mean it or it is not prayer and you are just talking to yourself.
Today Jesus is telling us not to use intimidating words when we pray. This means don’t use big words in prayer just to use big words, it does no good to say anything in prayer if we don’t mean it. Even if we use smaller words. This is why Jesus gave us specific instructions on how He wants us to pray, He even made it simple and not super complex for those in the church and for those wishing to join the church.
“Run through all of the words of the holy prayers,“ That stuck out to me because St. Augustine is saying if we really look through the prayer and find the meaning of these words. In the daily scripture it shows the meaning of each phrase in the Our Father like how St. Augustine says, ”I do not think you find anything that is not contained and included in the Lord’s Prayer.” I think what she means by that is in each phrase of the Our Father you can get something from it.
You need to pray in simple words to the Lord. Talk to him as if he were your parents or as a friend. Jesus is not a vending machine where you ask Him something and your wish is granted. He is your best friend and will help you through your toughest times and your best times. Forgive others and you shall be forgiven. The Lord loves you.
I feel like God is telling me that no one is like God, no one will ever be better than Him. We don’t deserve him at all especially because we have sinned and sinned over and over again and yet he still forgives us. He also gives us the power of free will instead of everybody being the same. He knows what we need and when, but He waits until it is the right time in life.
Today Jesus is telling me that the “Our Father” is a very effective prayer. This prayer has been around for so long. All Catholics know this prayer and it has great meaning. The Our Father is a short prayer, but when you break it down it has so much meaning. We can say a prayer as simple as the Our Father every morning to say hi to God when we first wake up.
The Our Father aren’t just words that have no meaning and that we just say every day. The Our Father has a meaning for every word we say while we are saying the prayer. When we pray the Our Father we need to remember that there is meaning to every word we are saying.
When Jesus tells us “In praying, do not babble like the pagans” he is telling us that many words without substance or belief mean nothing to the Heavenly Father. We do not need many words to get to God, we just need the few full of truth and belief for Him to hear us and listen. If we have no belief the words won’t get past other human ears and to God.
I think what God is telling us here is that we need to mean what we say in prayer do not just say random things with a little bit of Gods and other words you need to mean it or it is not prayer and you are just talking to yourself and that is weird.
In Our Father the phrase “forgive those who trespass against us.” That means we forgive whoever does wrong to us like Jesus did he died for our sins so that someone can forgive us for whatever we do. We use that phrase so we don’t hold grudges against people.
In the Our Father it says, “hallowed be thy name”. God’s name is holy. Hallowed means holy/sacred so that tells us that we should rarely use God’s name unless it is in prayer.
In the Gospel, Jesus tells us to not “babble like Pagans” and then he tells us how we should pray instead. He teaches us the Our Father so that when we pray we will pray how we are supposed to. We shouldn’t pray to get attention so that people will think that we are better than them, instead we should pray and try not to draw attention and be truthful and loving. We should also mean what we say when we pray it and try to not make praying seem like it’s just something that we have to get through to get to the things we want to do. We should pray the Our Father like how Jesus tells us to.
Today we are told that the rain and snow water crops and make them thrive so does the word of God. Its saying that God’s word will make us strong and like the plants that grow from the Earth so too will we grow in the faith but unlike the plants who grow from the water from the heaven we grow from the words from the mouth of God.
We don’t need to use big fancy words when talking to god. We don’t need to drone for hours talking about nothing. God will love us even if we do, but it is simpler to just welcome god in and reflect. Jesus tells us how to pray.
If we rush through our prayers and don’t take time to think about what we are saying then how do we call that prayer. Yes we do say the words but we need our mind there. When we pray we need to be focused on God and not on anything else.
The are Father is an important prayer because it thanks God for creating us letting us live and have us call him father
What stuck out to me was that Jesus says not to pray many words. The reason he says this is because God will hear us the first time..
The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer that God gave to us to say. We are meant to say it often and with pride. We should not rush through Prayer. We should take our time so we can get noticed by God.
God is responsible for everything good in our life. he is responsible for life itself. and we need to recognize that in a world without God there is nothing.
“If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” This part of the Gospel really stuck out to me, because it shows that being forgiven starts with forgiving in itself. I really like this idea, because it is somewhat like the golden rule, and forgiveness is a two way grace.
“Do not be like them.” That’s what Jesus said before teaching his disciples how to pray. Jesus doesn’t want us to be like other people. Partly because what other people do won’t always be the right thing and partly because he created us each to be different and unique. He made us for love and to be loved. He created every single person in a different way, giving them gifts and talents unique to them so we can love God in our own special way.
In the gospel today I think Jesus is trying to tell us he knows what we need way before we do. I think he is also saying what we want we need to treat other people how we want to be treated. If we want people to forgive us we need to forgive other people. Everyone makes mistakes and that is why we should always forgive people and see it from their point of view.
I think God is telling us that we need to mean what we say in our pray and not just say the words. When we pray we need to deeply mean the words and believe what we are saying because if we are just saying them and not meaning them that is wrong.
Jesus is telling us that we cannot brag about our faith, and there is no need to make it more difficult. We just need to pray the our father. Those words have a lot of meaning and “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” really sticks out to me because if we just let the father decide what is best for us, if we obey the will of the father, we will go to heaven and spend an eternity with him.
I think that God is trying to tell us that we need to know what we need as in knowing ourselves, but by the time we figure that out He is already past us millions of years, hours, days, and nights. He knows us better than we know ourselves, He is all powerful and He is our God as he is to every one else, even the people that don’t think he is all powerful or even the people that don’t think He is God.
Jesus wants us to Humbly submit our will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate our self to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.Many of the saints stopped here thanking God for allowing them to call Him Father, Pope Francis says Abba means Dad. When we ask God for something it may not be right away.
“Run through all of the words of the holy prayers” many people think it’s just a prayer it doesn’t mean anything but it is one of the best ways to talk to God he is more than a person in heaven he is our father who art in heaven it is his name we pray his name we are given when we are baptized we are his children and we will be forever and ever.
Jesus is trying to teach what prayer is and how to pray. “IN PRAYING, DO NOT BABBLE LIKE THE PAGANS,WHO THINK THAT THEY WILL BE HEARD BECAUSE OF THEIR MANY WORDS.” Jesus is trying to teach that prayer has meaning and when you just say the words and not reflect on, that is not prayer.
” in praying do not babble like the pagans, as they think they will be heard.” most times we should understand we always think that we will be heard. We always have a burden, and we should speak to God about it because we will show us what to do. What do i mean by he will show us. It means that when we pray he doesn’t just simply give it and we don’t know what to do with it. He will be wise by understanding HOW to use it. It takes practice in order to use something. Us Christians are begging for something either its a food that we want, a game, or even something that we just desire. What we need most is Jesus he gives us more than that. He died for us, promised us eternal life, and has blessed us with a home/shelter, food, beds, and clothes to where for a priced school to learn about God in catholic schools. We need him more than our desires or if he is our desire.
The answer of life is God if you don’t follow him we will not survive on a daily basis. We need God in our lives if we don’t have God, we will suffer because of the devil tempting us. The saying “Run through all of the words of the holy prayers (in Scripture), and I do not think you find anything that is not contained and included in the Lord’s Prayer.” It is good because it tells you the correct way to say prayers.
When we say our Father we can trust that God hears us and that he is there. This prayer helps us to focus on God and love him for he is with us always and providing for us.
Thank you for allowing me to call you Daddy and thank you for calling me son/daughter. I never really think about calling Him Dad. To even think that He is my Father in general is crazy. He is a perfect being and we are sinners trying to not turn away or get tempted by the devil. He is all powerful and we are nothing. In His eyes though we are a perfect creation. He loves the sinner but not the sin.
when we say the our father we can trust that God hears us and that he is there.
¨It shall not return to me void,
but shall do my will,
achieving the end for which I sent it.¨
This stuck out to me because it reminded me of when we say we are going to pray every night or do Gods will, we should commit to that and dont stop or look back. We all struggle with this so when we need some help we can look back at this scripture.
I think Jesus is trying to teach us how to pray, we need to really believe what we are saying and really listen to him. We need to not just say random things.
God knows everything about us. He knows what we are going to say before we even think it. When we pray we should be silent and still. He loves us so much and He wants us to focus on Him and Him only when we pray.
This is saying that the Our Father isn’t just some words put together, they all have a deeper meaning. This Lent we need to stop just saying prayers numbly, and just repeating the same words without listening, but we need to actually listen to the words and hear their meaning and meditate on those words
I think a very powerful line is “and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” because we are asking for Him to protect us and guard our souls from the devils temptations and let us be still with Him.
‘The Our Father’ prayer has lot of meaning in every word and sentence. It isn’t long, and doesn’t have many words but a big meaning. God will know what we are saying and we don’t need to pray with long sentences and tons of words.
What stuck out to me was “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” This stuck out to me because even though He knows what you need He still wants you to talk to him. You probably think to yourself saying oh well Jesus already knows what I need why do I have to tell Him, the reason you tell Him is to talk to Him so you can grow a deeper and stronger relationship with Him. So, take a little moment in your day to talk to Him, He is the one person who will always be there.
Jesus in this passage is teaching us to pray with The Lord’s Prayer. What he says after saying the Our Father is that if you don’t forgive other people then they won’t forgive you in return and that you should always see people as someone to forgive.
Jesus gave us the ‘Our Father’ to pray to him. It is not something to just simply say and go through the motions of saying because it has meaning. Each line in it has meaning with which we should listen to because it is also teaching us.
When we pray, we are putting our trust in God. That is all he asks of us. He doesn’t tell us to build massive structures in his name. He wants us to worship in private, where our voice can truly be heard. He offers us everything we could ever ask for, in exchange for our trust.
i think that everyone is just so caught up in other stuff that people cant see that Jesus is near us and in our presence. I’m the same way, I forget that Jesus is near and I do something that I know is wrong and he’s watching me. Sometimes I feel bad and sometimes I don’t. I should go to confession and confess on what I did.
God is trying to tell us that we need to forgive, we need to forgive so that we may be forgiven (Forgive us our trespasses and we forgive trespasses against us) we need to understand that we are all people and people are notorious for making mistakes. even though we may not want to forgive someone (and maybe because it was so incredibly terrible) we need to try, and if they reject our forgiveness, God knows we still tried and he forgives us.
The prayer that Jesus gave us has a lot of meaning in the words, We need to really take the time to pray and not just go along with the words and actions but listen and hear what Jesus is trying to tell us. When you pray you need to truly be in prayer physically and mentally. Prayer means nothing if you’re not meaning it.
Jesus teaches us HOW to pray today. He tells us “not to babble like the pagans.” So He gives us a prayer to pray. It asks 7 different things in that prayer and we are not just saying them to say them. There aren’t any extra words or things you say, it’s just those 7 asks. He gives this to us so we can pray to him how He created prayer. Not to just say things in prayer to attract attention but to pray sincerely and He showed us how to today with the Our Father that we pray everyday.
The Our Father prayer is such a powerful prayer. You are literally saying “thy will be done.” Saying that God has a plan for everyone even if it doesn’t feel like it. In the prayer we say “Our Father,” calling God our creator and father. The Our Father is so powerful, like just these simple words have such a powerful meaning.
In today’s Gospel Jesus shows us how to pray. The thing about the Our Father prayer is that like many other memorized prayers, we don’t pay attention to what we actually say. We just go through the motions and say it and then are done. We need to learn to say these prayers with intent though, like Jesus taught us.
“Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” God knows everything and he has a plan for everything. God wants us to pray to him because he wants us to have a relationship with him. He hears and answers our prayers even if the outcome is different than you expected. We should continue to pray and trust in God’s plan.
We are just like rain and snow, because we have to do our part to change our world and help our faith grow. We have to help our faith and bring peace to the world around us. We can do this in prayer, service, and acts of kindness. Those aren’t the only ways we can help, but it’s still good to do those things.
In todays Gospel Jesus teaches us to pray the our father. Why this prayer though? out of all the prayers and meditations he taught us this one. Jesus taught us the our father to remind us that theres something bigger than us. bigger than the celebrities and actors that we try to be. He is our father. Jesus christ reminds his diciples that God is our father ALL OF US! isn’t that amazing? Out of the 7.888 billion people in the world God loves every single one with the love of a father. He died for everyone. don’t worry about being popular on earth. Our mission as humans is to get back to the father. Our Father.
Today, Jesus preached to us and He also taught us the Lord’s Prayer also known as the Our Father. This prayer is really important to us because Jesus directly taught it to us and it says to forgive those who sin against you. This is one of my favorite prayers
“thy Kingdom come, thy will be done” God will come down to earth and make our world like it is in his Kingdom. Or he will bring us up into his Kingdom to where we can forever live in peace.
Jesus taught the apostles how to pray with the Our Father, and we are no different. We are followers of God just as they were, and we have the blessing of praying the Lord’s prayer
I think Jesus is trying to tell us to pray with passion. To pray and mean every word we say. He wants us to pray so the more we pray the better our prayers are.
Jesus is telling us to pray with intention, to pray with meaning. He is telling us to not pray out loud or to yell our prayer so that people are “impressed” with our prayer. He is telling us that we should pray to ourselves to God, and to Him (Jesus). Jesus is trying to get us to be and talk with him. We should respond to his call, because if we do we are saved. Pray the Our Father the way Jesus taught us, slowly and meaningfully.
In this scripture reflection I was reminded of how much I should be thankful for and how many people I should pray for and that everyone needs a little God in their lives.
today in the scripture it talked about that we need to slow down in are prayer to really understand what we say and read so that we can see what they offer to us in our daily life so that we can expand on those words and be better catholic people with them
In the Our Father it talks about asking God for forgiveness and then forgiving others. I feel like that’s a big part of the Our Father. If we can’t forgive others how do you expect Jesus to forgive us when Jesus is inside of everyone? Everyone we in counter is filled with God so if we don’t forgive our neighbor, that’s like us turning our backs towards God and not forgiving him.
We take advantage of everything, like being able to go to church every Sunday, being able to celebrate the Mass in general, and then praying, i don’t think we take advantage of it some of us just don’t realize what the benefits are, and sometimes that includes me. It can feel like nothing will happen if you just do something with your hands say some words and then do the same thing, don’t, instead pray like your life depends on it.
“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” We put ourselves into this evil. We have a choice to sin and we keep putting ourselves back into it. We know it is wrong yet we still do it. Then we go to confession and add the weight to Jesus’ cross and act like we are fine yet we are making Jesus work so many times harder. We don’t even care when we sin anymore we just let temptation get us and act like I will be fine I will just confess my sins yet we are putting Jesus the Son of God lower than us. We act like we are above God when we sin. We are like I just sinned and did not care and put Jesus through more pain. We need to start caring! We need to change what we are doing so we will be with God and help Him carry His cross instead of adding more weight.
a lot of the time we usaly just fly by in prayer and not pay attention to any of the words or meanings. after a while we start to get used to it and stop thinking about just how precious the prayer really is and what it means.
“forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”. When someone has done somthing mean or rude, like a little sibling making a mess in our room, do we forgive them or do we hold a grudge? God taught us to forgive like he forgives us. For we sin agaist God ALL THE TIME, but he forgives us. so we should forgive others who have done something wrong to us. and maybe not hold a grudge agaist that little sibling. 🙂
I think that it is crazy that someone as powerful as God allows us to call him father. It’s also crazy to think of how much he loves us. When we say the our father it brings me a sort of comfort knowing that i can trust and love God.
“And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;”
How hard is it to forgive? Very in some cases. As humans we tend to not be so forgiving but in this prayer we are praying that God forgives us but we have to forgive others. It’s like the St.Francis prayer “It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.” When we forgive we are forgiven. Because Jesus taught us not to be hypocrites; forgive and be forgiven.
In the scripture Jesus says
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans,who think that they will be heard because of their many words.”
I think he’s saying that we don’t just learn a prayer so then we just know it, we learn it for a meaning because prayers have meanings. And not just going through the motions but actually mean what you are saying.
today god tells us that we have to forgive the people that persecute us. I have always struggled with this because I find it hard to forgive people. I have a lot of pride and can get very angry at times when I feel that someone has wronged me.
Talking to God doesn’t have to be like going to a really fancy resturant with the president it can be as simple as talking to Him the way you talk to your friends and it can be done anywhere
God gave us this prayer so he could have a relationship with us and so we could get to know Him.What is also crazy is that there is 7 parts of the Our Father and 7 represents a lot of things in the Bible.Some of those things are like the days of creation which took 7 days.Jesus wants to have a relationship with us so we need to take the time to want to be with Him.
When we say our Father we can trust that God hears us and that he is there This prayer helps us to focus on God and love him for he is with us always and providing for us.thank you god for letting me call you my daddy
Empty yourself so that He can fill you up to be an instrument of love. That really stuck out to me because God loves us so much he would give away himself and his life for any one of us. He wants us to be as holy as possible and live a good life.
Today Jesus is telling me that the “Our Father” is a very effective prayer. This prayer has been around for so long. All Catholics know this prayer and it has great meaning. We can say a prayer as simple as the Our Father every morning to say hi to God when we first wake up
“And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”. Something very hard to do. It takes a lot of courage to do the things we don’t feel like doing. To forgive someone who we dislike or someone who has done something to us is hard. God is telling us that even when it’s hard or difficult we must do what is right in the end.
The Our Father is a powerful prayer the Father has given us. There are so many meanings to each individual phase in the Our Father. We must grow in knowledge that God has set these prayers to help guide us back to Him and back to Heaven where we belong.
I think this means that when we pray we should pray for the right reasons and truly mean what we say. Prayer is not just words, prayer means something, so if we just rush through or not truly mean the words we are saying, then we aren’t getting anything out of praying.
“Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth”
This saying stuck out to me because we just keep on sinning and sinning and until Jesus comes to earth again or until we raise from the dead we will not return to heaven.
Today’s scripture reflection was about prayer and breaking it down. This was telling me that the Our Father is an important prayer and that we need to say what we mean in our prayers. When we pray we need to mean all the words we are saying in our prayer.
God is trying to tell us that the Our Father is more than just a prayer that we say when we go to bed, or other things. Actually, prayer in general is more than what we think. The Our Father prayer is asking Jesus to forgive not only us who sinned against him, but “Forgive those who tresspass against us.” We don’t think about the deep meaning of these prayers when we say it, we just say it cause we “have” to. God is teaching us how to properly pray, so we should take the time to actually pray the prayer.
God is telling me in this message that whenever we pray we have to take joy in what you say, not just say it. You should do things that are reverent to Jesus and actually say what you mean, don’t just say that because you’re praying the prayer.
Jesus is telling us to pray with meaning, not just babble the words so you can get it over with. But rather truly mean every word you say. “What comes after the snow melts? Spring” If you always look on the positive side, and look for at least one thing your grateful for, then you’ll start find peace.
“Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” We can go to God with our intentions that aren’t very pure, and what we think we really need. When we go to him he knows exactly what we truly mean, regardless of how we word it. We don’t need to speak perfectly to Him because he knows what we truly want and need
We have to really think on what prayer actually mean. It is much more deep then we make it. We need to say a prayer slowly and thoughtfully.
God is telling us that we should always forgive people. It might be hard for some people to forgive people but we need the courage to forgive others, so we can get closer to God and be with Him in Heaven. “IN PRAYING, DO NOT BABBLE LIKE THE PAGANS,WHO THINK THAT THEY WILL BE HEARD BECAUSE OF THEIR MANY WORDS.” This part struck me because people think they can get EVERYTHING if they pray to God, but they still are upset.
The Lord doesn’t want us to ask for things in knows we need.
In todays gospel what stuck out too me was even though we think Jesus isnt are reall dad well we’re wrong because God is the only person who can create us and for us to be in this world.
Today’s scripture is about prayer. The Our Father is not just a normal prayer, Jesus taught us the Our Father. Prayer can keep the devil from tempting us.
In this scripture Jesus is trying to say that we need to focus on our prayer and not rush through it, and that we really have to think on what prayer actually means. When we pary we need to pray for reasons , and it means what we say.
“Humbly submit your will to God” this stuck out too me because i think hes trying to say always be true with yourself him and other people dont let people change your mind.
“and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us:” this stuck out to me because it is talking about us asking God for forgiveness, we let the devil get the best of us and show God that we are weak. We could pray to him more often, we could read the bible daily, or a daily rosary. We need to show God that we care about him.
Today’s Gospel rally reached out to me and what I got out of it is this>We need to PRAY for intentions not just pray for nothing. the area of the Gospel that I got from this is >“In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.”
When Jesus said don’t babble like the pagans. What he means is that we shouldn’t pray random words and think that those words will make us be heard faster.