Pray Like Jesus Prayed This Holy Week
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
During Holy Week, as we contemplate the last hours of Jesus’ life, we get an intimate look at how Jesus prays to his Father.
Starting with our Lord’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, we hear Jesus talking to God the Father about the upcoming moments of his life. He continues to pray through his Passion all the way until his last breath—a model that we as sons and daughters of God can follow as well. But what does Jesus show us about what it means to truly pray “Abba, Father”?
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to Holy Week, when it comes to the Tritton, right? |
| 0:04.2 | These three days tried DM, right? |
| 0:06.8 | For three days. |
| 0:07.6 | There is a collection of moments in these last, you know, 18 hours of Christ's life, |
| 0:13.6 | where we just get an insight into how Jesus prays. |
| 0:16.9 | How many of his Father makes Smith's and this is essential. |
| 0:29.9 | Here we're watching the Son of God pray to God the Father. |
| 0:33.5 | We're here watching God pray to God, but God made man pray to God. |
| 0:37.5 | We're given this, this access and this insight into what goes beneath, what kind of attitude |
| 0:43.7 | Jesus has when he approaches God the Father. |
| 0:46.6 | And this is the attitude that we get to have. |
| 0:48.1 | If we're adopted sons of the Father, adopted daughters of the Father, this is the attitude |
| 0:51.7 | that we get to have when we approach God. |
| 0:54.6 | And it is summed up in so many ways in Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. |
| 1:02.3 | In the Garden of Gethsemane, how does Jesus pray? |
| 1:05.2 | He says, Abba, he says Father. |
| 1:07.5 | So first of all, he calls God his Father. |
| 1:10.4 | He calls God Abba, which is that, that, that, that intimate connection. |
| 1:14.2 | It's this, it's, it's what a child who speaks Hebrew calls their dad. |
| 1:19.2 | And so for us, the way we get to talk to God is we get to call God our dad, we get to |
| 1:23.3 | call God our Father because why? |
| 1:24.6 | Because he has adopted us. |
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