Jesus’ prayer teaches us how to pray not by giving us a precise liturgical formula or the correct magical spell; he teaches us to pray by describing for us how to stir up our baptismal covenant, how to place ourselves within the filial bond of Christ—how to understand ourselves as children of the kingdom, heirs to the kingdom—and how to bring that bond into our lives with one another, sharing our daily bread, forgiving one another’s sin, and helping each other to avoid evil.
The idea of the paternoster as a tool to stir up in us the baptismal covenant is one of those simple phrases that helps to sum up a good deal of good stuff to unpack at leisure.
Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: "OurFatherwhoartinheavenhallowedbethyname..."
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