ഇന്നത്തെ വായനകള് TodBlue Octobereadings 8 Octob er, 2014 Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 GAL 2:1-2, 7-14 Brothers and sisters:After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas,taking Titus along also.I went up in accord with a... Responsorial Psalm PS 117:1BC, 2 R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.Praise the LORD, all you nations,glorify him, all you peoples!R. Go out to all the... Todays Gospel Reflection in audio Gospel LK 11:1-4 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” GOSPEL REFLECTION October 8, Wednesday Luke 11: 1-4 “Teach us to pray” In many ways, the ‘Our Father’ is the most sublime prayer we have. Jesus taught it to his disciples on their request. Though its structure is akin to similar prayers recited in the synagogues of the time, its content is uniquely its own. The text we read in today’s Gospel is Luke’s, which differs slightly from that of Matthew. We’ll comment briefly on the words of the prayer, keeping in mind that the prayer has overtones of the Endtime, that is when God’s reign comes to final fulfillment. Father. A daring way to address God, unique to the Christian faith. We call God ‘Father’, because his ‘Son’ Jesus, someone of the same nature as God, encouraged us to do so. To be God’s children then, requires us to be obedient to our Father, as Jesus was. Holy be your name. God manifests his holiness in Jesus, and never more fully than during Jesus’s passion and death, which is also the moment when God sends us his Spirit. Your Kingdom come. Better, may your Reign of goodness, truth and love be established among us. The early Church paraphrased this: “May your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us.” Our daily bread. Our petition is for God’s care in the daily handling of all our needs. But ‘bread’ in the Gospels also has Eucharistic connotations. God sustains both our bodies and our souls. Forgive us our sins. This petition implies a corresponding action on ours, “as we forgive…” Mercy is the key characteristic of God’s dealings with us, as it should be our way of relating to one another. Put us not to the test. We pray that we may not be tested beyond our strength, and specially not fall prey to the wiles of the evil one.
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