#lordsprayer

SpiritualKhazaanaspiritualkhazaana
2025-11-06

The Lord's Prayer: The sacred prayer Jesus taught us—Matthew 6:9-13
Discover the profound spiritual meaning of the Lord's Prayer (Our Father). Learn how each line transforms your relationship with God and guides authentic Christian living.
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The Lord's Prayer
SpiritualKhazaanaspiritualkhazaana
2025-11-04

Thy Will be Done: Spiritual Meaning and Life Application | Matthew 6:10 Explained
Explore the deep spiritual meaning of "Thy Will be Done" from the Lord’s Prayer. Learn how active trust, surrender, and aligning with God’s plan transform your life and unfold His kingdom. Learn the spiritual power of surrender, divine trust, and miracles in motion.
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Thy Will Be Done
SpiritualKhazaanaspiritualkhazaana
2025-11-03

Pray for Peace of Jerusalem : A Deep Dive into Faith, Prophecy, and the Heart of the Holy Land
In Pray for Peace of Jerusalem, Dr. Earl James invites readers into a deep spiritual reflection on the biblical command found in Psalm 122:6 — “Pray for peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.” The book, divided into 17 profound chapters, takes readers... More details… spiritualkhazaana.com/pray-for

Pray for Peace of Jerusalem
2025-09-26

The #Gospel reading for 26 September 2025 is Matthew 6:7-15. These are the verses in which #Jesus gives us the #LordsPrayer (A similar prayer is given in Luke 11:2-4 Even the #Bible has both traditional & contemporary versions!)

The Lord’s Prayer is familiar to most Christians. So familiar that we don’t always think about the words or pray it as intentionally as we should. Lately, I’ve been praying a mashup of both versions, just to keep me focused on what I am doing. I use sin (that which separates us from God) rather than trespass (ethical transgressions) and time of trial (persecution) rather than temptation. Although these are not big changes, they are just enough to throw the cadence of the prayer off when said in community, so I tend to whisper them under my breath so as not to disturb others. As yesterday’s gospel taught, I’m not doing it for show but because I want to be more mindful of how I’m praying. #DPB #Green How do you say the Lord’s Prayer & why do you say it that way?

Caritas Christi Urget Nosfather.mulcahy.net@father.mulcahy.net
2025-06-17

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s readings

Back when I was a seminarian intern, I had been visiting a parishioner at a local nursing home every week. I got to know her and her husband, and prayed with them often. One day, she was in the hospital, and I visited her there. Her husband told me she had been nonverbal: she hadn’t said anything for the last few days. So after talking a bit, we prayed – the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary. I had invited her to pray along in her heart as best she could. When we got to those prayers, she began to pray them softly with us, and her husband had some tears of joy. Me too.

I always say that we need to have a “prayer toolbox” for when times are difficult and we don’t know what to say or how to pray. And so it is glorious that Holy Mother Church has passed on some wonderful prayers, including the Lord’s Prayer, which he gave us in our Gospel this morning. When we don’t know what we are to pray or how to express our needs to God, these wonderful prayers do all that for us. Thanks be to God.

So it’s good if we learn our prayers early on in life. Because if we have grown up saying them, we will never lose them, and they will be a comfort to us in good times and bad, up to our dying breath. So when times are difficult, it’s freeing to say, “Thy will be done…” When we don’t know what’s best for us, it’s best to say, “Give us this day our daily bread…” When we feel crushed by our sins and ashamed of our past, it’s healing to say, “forgive us our trespasses…”

Today, let’s pray the Lord’s Prayer, as often as we pray it, with intention and attention. And let’s give thanks to Our Lord who entrusted these words to our hearts.

#LordSPrayer #Prayer

Quote of the day, 16 April: St. Teresa of Avila

Give us this day our daily bread (Lk 11:3)

O eternal Lord! Why do You accept such a petition? Why do You consent to it? Don’t look at His love for us, because in exchange for doing Your will perfectly, and doing it for us, He allows Himself to be crushed to pieces each day. It is for You, my Lord, to look after Him, since He will let nothing deter Him.

Why must all our good come at His expense? Why does He remain silent before all and not know how to speak for Himself, but only for us?

Well, shouldn’t there be someone to speak for this most loving Lamb? [Allow me, Lord, to speak—since You have willed to leave Him to our power—and to beseech You since He so truly obeyed You and with so much love gave Himself to us].

I have noticed how in this petition alone He repeats the words: first He says and asks the Father to give us this daily bread, and then repeats, “give it to us this day, Lord,” invoking the Father again [dádnoslo hoy, Señor].

It’s as though Jesus tells the Father that He is now ours since the Father has given Him to us to die for us; and asks that the Father not take Him from us until the end of the world; that He allow Him to serve each day. May this move your hearts, my daughters, to love your Spouse, for there is no slave who would willingly say he is a slave, and yet it seems that Jesus is honored to be one.

O Eternal Father! How much this humility deserves! What treasure do we have that could buy Your Son? The sale of Him, we already know, was for thirty pieces of silver [Mt 26:15]. But to buy Him, no price is sufficient.

Since by sharing in our nature, He has become one with us here below—and as Lord of His own will—He reminds the Father that because He belongs to Him, the Father in turn can give Him to us. And so He says, “our bread.”

He doesn’t make any difference between Himself and us, but we make one by not giving ourselves up each day for His Majesty.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 33, nos. 4–5

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Judas Goes to Find the Jews (Judas va trouver les Juifs) was executed in opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper by artist James Tissot, (French, 1836-1902) during the years 1886-1894 as he created his famed series The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ). So many of these well-known artworks are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York and are available for download online with no known copyright restrictions.

Reflection Question
On this day of betrayal, how are you moved by the Lord’s silence and His daily self-gift?
Join the conversation in the comments.

#bread #giving #humility #incarnation #JesusChrist #LordSPrayer #silence #StTeresaOfAvila

WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-04-01

A quotation from The Bible

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.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.

 
[Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς·
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου·
ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου·
γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου,
ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς·
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον·
καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν,
ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν·
καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν,
ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.
Ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία
καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα
εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 6: 9-13 “The Lord’s Prayer” (Jesus) [Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (1928)]

Sourcing, extensive notes, alternate translations: wist.info/bible-nt/75967/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #jesus #lordsprayer #Christianity #God #intercession #needs #petition #prayer

Quote of the day, 11 March: St. Teresa of Avila

Now, then, let us speak again to those souls I mentioned that cannot recollect or tie their minds down in mental prayer or engage in reflection. Let’s not mention here by name these two things, since you are not meant to follow such a path. As a matter of fact there are many persons seemingly terrified by the mere term “mental prayer” or “contemplation,” and perhaps one of these might come to this house, for as I have also said not everyone walks by the same path.

Well what I now want to counsel you about (I can even say teach you, because as a Mother, having the office of prioress, I’m allowed to teach) is how you must pray vocally, for it’s only right that you should understand what you’re saying.

And because it can happen that those who are unable to think about God may also find long prayers tiring, I don’t want to concern myself with these. But I will speak of those prayers we are obliged as Christians to recite (such as, the Our Father and the Hail Mary) so that people won’t be able to say of us that we speak and don’t understand what we’re speaking about—unless we think it is enough for us to follow the practice in which merely pronouncing the words is sufficient. I’m not concerned with whether this is sufficient or not; learned men will explain [the matter to those persons to whom God gives light to ask the question. And I’m not meddling with what doesn’t belong to our state.]

What I would like us to do, daughters, is refuse to be satisfied with merely pronouncing the words. For when I say, “I believe,” it seems to me right that I should know and understand what I believe.

And when I say, “Our Father,” it will be an act of love to understand who this Father of ours is and who the Master is who taught us this prayer.

What we ourselves can do is to strive to be alone; and please God it will suffice, as I say, that we understand to whom we are speaking and the answer the Lord makes to our petitions. Do you think He is silent? Even though we do not hear Him, He speaks well to the heart when we beseech Him from the heart.

And it is good for us to consider that He taught this prayer to each of us and that He is showing it to us; the teacher is never so far from his pupil that he has to shout, but he is very close. I want you to understand that it is good for you, if you are to recite the Our Father well, to remain at the side of the Master who taught this prayer to you.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 24, nos. 1–2, 5

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Jude Beck / Unsplash (Stock photo)

#contemplation #LordSPrayer #mentalPrayer #OurFather #recollection #solitude #StTeresaOfAvila #understanding #vocalPrayer

2024-11-10

I'm going to have to check on the replay, but I think that she messed up the words of the Lord's Prayer. Not that that matters.

#RemembranceSunday #LordsPrayer

2024-06-30

This Week at Little Hills: What is the Lord’s Prayer? (June 30, 2024) #Prayer #LordsPrayer #NewCityCatechism youtu.be/zjjy5aMGrNg

2024-03-29

Sometimes we can see #theCross clearly, sometimes not. When life grow dark, and we don't see the shining of God's glory, can we see His is there working? #GoodFriday #LordsPrayer #TheGlory youtu.be/19Q3BLx76zk

2024-03-29

Sometimes we can see the Cross clearly, sometimes not. As we look for Him in the World, we often look where there is power and authority, but do we look where He willing set aside His power for us? #GoodFriday #LordsPrayer #ThePower youtu.be/ZGIygLW4CIU

2024-03-29

Sometimes we can see #theCross clearly, sometimes not. But as we wrestle with where Jesus is working in our lives, He calls us to look and answer the same questions people have been confronted with since the first #GoodFriday. #LordsPrayer #TheKingdom youtu.be/IfA2LlY1mys

2024-03-26

Good News and Bad News: Are We the Punchline? (March 25, 2024) #LordsPrayer #HolyWeek #KingDavid youtube.com/live/hVp5Iay_QE8

2024-03-16
'As it is in heaven' by Michael W. Smith popped up in my spotify play list (#Christian artist singing the #LordsPrayer) and I got caught up in a spirit of praise and chalked the following (post 4 of 4). #Chalk #LordsPraer #ChristianArt #religion
"For thine is the Kingdom' a chalked radiant/holy crown." & all the power & the glory forever AMEN" forever is underlined and amen is in yellow. A radiant/holy infinity symbol  is chalked above the text.
2024-03-16
'As it is in heaven' by Michael W. Smith popped up in my spotify play list (#Christian artist singing the #LordsPrayer) and I got caught up in a spirit of praise and chalked the following (1 post of 4). #Chalk #LordsPraer #ChristianArt #religion (post 3 of 4)
"Give us this day our daily bread" and a chalking of a loaf of bread and a glass/chalice of wine."And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" and a chalking of a red dollar sign crossed out in yellow"And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil" a chalking of a fork in the road. With a red sign post pointing left and a yellow pointing right. A holy man with a sheppards crook is pointing right."But deliver us from evil" a chalking of a leering angry man radiating evil.

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