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== The Lord's instructions on how to pray == | == The Lord's instructions on how to pray == | ||
But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. | The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the prayer to be spoken thoughtfully and purposefully. In the Sermon on the Mount, he taught: | ||
“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. | |||
And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. | |||
But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. | |||
Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/6:5 Mt 6:5-8]) | |||
And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. 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.([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/6:5 Mt 6:5-8]) | |||
== "Summary of the Whole Gospel" == | == "Summary of the Whole Gospel" == | ||
* Tertullian wrote, "The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole gospel" (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/664/ CCC 2774]) | * Tertullian wrote, "The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole gospel" (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/664/ CCC 2774]) | ||
* Saint Augustine wrote that, | * Saint Augustine wrote that, | ||
Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/664/ CCC 2762]) | |||
Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/664/ CCC 2762]) | * Saint Thomas Aquinas called it the "most perfect of prayers" (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/666/ CCC 2774])<br /> | ||
* Saint Thomas Aquinas called it the "most perfect of prayers" (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/666/ CCC 2774]) | |||
== Notes and the "Seven Petitions" == | == Notes and the "Seven Petitions" == | ||
Abba | Abba | ||