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Are you up for a good mystery?

Well embedded deep within the Lord's Prayer is the mysterious little Greek adjective,

Epoeucion.

It's normally translated daily, as in, give us this day our daily bread, Epoeucion.

The difficulty is that that word seems to exist nowhere else in ancient Greek, and no

one is really sure what it means.

In 400 AD, Saint Jerome translated Epoeucion into Latin as the word super substantial.

But he also suggested that it could mean bread for the coming day.

So by combining both ideas, it could be read, give us this day the super substantial

bread that is sufficient for tomorrow.

But what in your life is sufficient to sustain and support you, worldly food, or the bread

of life as Christ that draws you to eternal life?

Well the answer is both.

So why not pray for both?

This meditation from Matthew 6 is a reflection on sustenance, God's gift of a worldly bread

to care for you physically, and his eternal gift of the eternal bread of life as Christ

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