We pray to our Father in union with the Holy Spirit and all the saints. But it’s Jesus, who teaches me in today’s Gospel how to converse with the father.
He is “our Father”, members of the same family, and just as his will is fulfilled in heaven, so may it be in our passing world. I ask him to give us the essentials to exist: food for the body; the Eucharist for the soul, and for insight to see how he has forgiven me, so that in turn I can forgive anyone who has injured me.
The Father led Jesus into the desert where he was tempted, but experience has shown me I do not have the strength to exist in the desert, to resist temptation. So I ask for deliverance from the desert, from temptations to choose selfish, passing pleasures now, and especially at the time when he is about to calls me from this life for judgment.
The side effect of this prayer is the need to know Jesus better, to deepen my friendship with him in order for him to strengthen my relation with Our Father and with all his sons and daughters in preparation for the life to come.
Resolve: I will take some time today to reflect slowly on each part of “The Our Father”. and then I will ask Jesus to deepen its meaning in me and in all the sons and daughters of our Father.