Dear brothers and sisters,

This week we are taught by Jesus himself how to pray. The Our Father is such a great way to acknowledge our reliance on God, our Father. In this beautiful prayer we admit how grateful we are to have a Father who protects and watches over us and simply wants us to be filled with His grace and love and to realize our potential in this life. He is always there for us ready to console, encourage and assist us in our daily lives.

Saint Augustine reflected on the Lord’s Prayer, “We have heard whom we ought to call upon and with what hope of an eternal inheritance we have begun to have a Father in Heaven; let us now hear what we must ask of Him. Of such a Father what shall we ask? Do we not ask rain of Him today, and yesterday, and the day before? This is no great thing to have asked of such a Father, and yet ye see with what sighings and with what great desire we ask for rain when death is feared—when that is feared which none can escape. For sooner or later every man must die, and we groan, and pray, and travail in pain, and cry to God that we may die a little later. How much more ought we to cry to Him that we may come to that place where we shall never die!”

May we always rely completely upon our heavenly Father.

Peace,

Fr. Mike