As I hear Jesus teach us to pray today in the Gospel of Matthew, I think of the different prayers I love to pray in the Catholic faith: the Our Father, the rosary, the stations of the cross, the prayer of St Michael the Archangel, the prayers of St Teresa of Avila, and the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. When we pray them, the meaning of these prayers should penetrate our hearts. In the our Father, we don’t merely address God as the creator, but rather call him our Father, our parent. Through this prayer, we honor and praise his name and his being. In praying to God, we pray for the coming of his kingdom, for the fulfillment of his kingdom, for the values, harmony, goodness, and peace that come with his kingdom. In this prayer, we pray for our needs, we pray for the needs of others, we pray for forgiveness. When we pray the words of the Lord’s prayer, we are to pray for a transformation that the words symbolize and stand for. We pray for a transformation for us and a transformation for the world. When we pray this word today, when we pray it every day, may we really hear the words and realize what we are saying.
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