PRAYER BRINGS US INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD (HOMILY OF THURSDAY OF THE 11WEEK OF 11WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME JUNE 2022
PRAYER BRINGS US INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD Dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, in the gospel reading of today. Jesus, while discouraging the act of babbling done by the pagans, instructed his disciples on how to pray. Firstly, Jesus educates his disciples that prayer brings us into the family of God. The Lord's prayer begins by inviting us into the family of God who is our Father in heaven and invariably enables us to acknowledge that we are God's adopted children. So prayer in the family spirit is relational. The Lord's prayer carries 6 petitions: 3 refer to God and 3 refer to us. 1. Hallowed be your name : otherwise “Holy be your name”, invites us in prayer to admit that God is that supreme pure being without any atom of sin or depravity. Holiness means sacred, blameless, consecrated, Saint etc The holiness of God is graciously acknowledged even in the first 3 commandments given by God to Moses, which require: not having any other god before Yahweh, not using the name ...