Kingdom Prayer

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 July 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How central is the Lord's Prayer to Christianity! Basically this prayer is about ordering ourselves to God and letting his way of being order all levels of our lives. But we must not think that we will easily orientate ourselves to God. There are powerful forces that resist this, and we must not be naive about them. The Lord's Prayer is the itinerary for our spiritual journey.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George. I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect
0:09.0	with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Word on Fire Catholic
0:14.2	Ministries is a non-profit ministry at the forefront of Catholic evangelization, using
0:18.9	new media to spread the faith and every continent. Father Barron challenges us to open our hearts
0:23.9	to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us. If our hearts are open,
0:29.5	the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love about the one who
0:34.6	is love. The global benefactors of Word on Fire with the support of the Archdiocese of
0:39.4	Chicago now present Word on Fire. Peace be with you. Friends, the Gospel for today gives
0:47.7	us once again an opportunity to reflect on the great prayer that Jesus taught us, the Lord's
0:54.1	Prayer, the Prayer for the Christian Journey, which has been offered up consistently for the past
1:00.0	2,000 years. Think just for a minute, how this prayer links us to all the great figures in Christian
1:07.2	history. From Peter and Paul to Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and Francis of Assisi, John Henry
1:14.0	Newman, GK Chesterton, John Paul II, right up to the present day, we've all prayed this prayer.
1:24.3	Keep in mind, as a preliminary consideration, that prayer is not designed to change God's mind,
1:32.9	or to tell God something he doesn't already know. God isn't like some big city boss or reluctant
1:39.6	pasha whom we have to persuade or inform. He is rather from the beginning, the one who wants
1:47.6	nothing other than to give us good things. Though these good things might not be what we
1:53.6	immediately want. Think of prayer as an attempt to change our minds, if you want, to align our
2:02.0	wills to God. So with that in mind, let's look at these petitions that make up the our Father.
2:10.7	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Notice, first of all, the wonderful tension
2:18.7	that's established from the beginning. God is addressed with great intimacy as Father,
2:27.1	Abba in the Aramaic. Of course, the scholars tell us it's one of the marks of distinctiveness
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