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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 6, 2015, 3:54 am
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[quote author=Piper link=topic=314.msg2797#msg2797
date=1438818470]
[font=trebuchet ms]Here's a link for you to the Scott Hahn book
I mentioned, with a 'look inside':
HTML http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Father-Biblical-Reflections/dp/1931018154
HTML http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Father-Biblical-Reflections/dp/1931018154[/font]
[/quote]
It appears to almost be a sort of continuation of his older book
A Father Who Keeps His Promises. That was a great book; I'm
sure this one is too.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 6, 2015, 6:22 am
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ARTICLE 2 "OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN"
I. "WE DARE TO SAY"
2777 In the Roman liturgy, the Eucharistic assembly is invited
to pray to our heavenly Father with filial boldness; the Eastern
liturgies develop and use similar expressions: "dare in all
confidence," "make us worthy of. . . . " From the burning bush
Moses heard a voice saying to him, "Do not come near; put off
your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are
standing is holy ground."26 Only Jesus could cross that
threshold of the divine holiness, for "when he had made
purification for sins," he brought us into the Father's
presence: "Here am I, and the children God has given me."27
Our awareness of our status as slaves would make us sink
into the ground and our earthly condition would dissolve into
dust, if the authority of our Father himself and the Spirit of
his Son had not impelled us to this cry . . . 'Abba, Father!' .
. . When would a mortal dare call God 'Father,' if man's
innermost being were not animated by power from on high?"28
2778 This power of the Spirit who introduces us to the Lord's
Prayer is expressed in the liturgies of East and of West by the
beautiful, characteristically Christian expression: parrhesia,
straightforward simplicity, filial trust, joyous assurance,
humble boldness, the certainty of being loved.29
References:
26 Ex 3:5.
27 Heb 1:3; 2:13.
28 St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 71,3:PL 52,401CD; cf. Gal 4:6.
29 Cf. Eph 3:12; Heb 3:6; 4:16; 10:19; 1 Jn 2:28; 3:21; 5:14.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: Piper Date: August 6, 2015, 8:18 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]The certainty of being loved . . .
Sigh.[/font]
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 18, 2015, 7:24 am
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II. ABBA - "FATHER!"
2779 Before we make our own this first exclamation of the Lord's
Prayer, we must humbly cleanse our hearts of certain false
images drawn "from this world." Humility makes us recognize that
"no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the
Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to
reveal him," that is, "to little children."30 The purification
of our hearts has to do with paternal or maternal images,
stemming from our personal and cultural history, and influencing
our relationship with God. God our Father transcends the
categories of the created world. To impose our own ideas in this
area "upon him" would be to fabricate idols to adore or pull
down. To pray to the Father is to enter into his mystery as he
is and as the Son has revealed him to us.
The expression God the Father had never been revealed to
anyone. When Moses himself asked God who he was, he heard
another name. The Father's name has been revealed to us in the
Son, for the name "Son" implies the new name "Father."31
2780 We can invoke God as "Father" because he is revealed to us
by his Son become man and because his Spirit makes him known to
us. The personal relation of the Son to the Father is something
that man cannot conceive of nor the angelic powers even dimly
see: and yet, the Spirit of the Son grants a participation in
that very relation to us who believe that Jesus is the Christ
and that we are born of God.32
2781 When we pray to the Father, we are in communion with him
and with his Son, Jesus Christ.33 Then we know and recognize him
with an ever new sense of wonder. The first phrase of the Our
Father is a blessing of adoration before it is a supplication.
For it is the glory of God that we should recognize him as
"Father," the true God. We give him thanks for having revealed
his name to us, for the gift of believing in it, and for the
indwelling of his Presence in us.
2782 We can adore the Father because he has caused us to be
reborn to his life by adopting us as his children in his only
Son: by Baptism, he incorporates us into the Body of his Christ;
through the anointing of his Spirit who flows from the head to
the members, he makes us other "Christs."
God, indeed, who has predestined us to adoption as his
sons, has conformed us to the glorious Body of Christ. So then
you who have become sharers in Christ are appropriately called
"Christs."34
The new man, reborn and restored to his God by grace, says
first of all, "Father!" because he has now begun to be a son.35
2783 Thus the Lord's Prayer reveals us to ourselves at the same
time that it reveals the Father to us.36
O man, you did not dare to raise your face to heaven, you
lowered your eyes to the earth, and suddenly you have received
the grace of Christ all your sins have been forgiven. From being
a wicked servant you have become a good son. . . . Then raise
your eyes to the Father who has begotten you through Baptism, to
the Father who has redeemed you through his Son, and say: "Our
Father. . . . " But do not claim any privilege. He is the Father
in a special way only of Christ, but he is the common Father of
us all, because while he has begotten only Christ, he has
created us. Then also say by his grace, "Our Father," so that
you may merit being his son.37
2784 The free gift of adoption requires on our part continual
conversion and new life. Praying to our Father should develop in
us two fundamental dispositions:
First, the desire to become like him: though created in his
image, we are restored to his likeness by grace; and we must
respond to this grace.
We must remember . . . and know that when we call God "our
Father" we ought to behave as sons of God.38
You cannot call the God of all kindness your Father if you
preserve a cruel and inhuman heart; for in this case you no
longer have in you the marks of the heavenly Father's
kindness.39
We must contemplate the beauty of the Father without ceasing and
adorn our own souls accordingly.40
2785 Second, a humble and trusting heart that enables us "to
turn and become like children":41 for it is to "little children"
that the Father is revealed.42
[The prayer is accomplished] by the contemplation of God
alone, and by the warmth of love, through which the soul, molded
and directed to love him, speaks very familiarly to God as to
its own Father with special devotion.43
Our Father: at this name love is aroused in us . . . and
the confidence of obtaining what we are about to ask. . . . What
would he not give to his children who ask, since he has already
granted them the gift of being his children?44
References:
30 Mt 11:25-27.
31 Tertullian, De orat. 3:PL 1,1155.
32 Cf. Jn 1:1; 1 Jn 5:1.
33 Cf. 1 Jn 1:3.
34 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 3,1:PG 33,1088A.
35 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 9:PL 4,525A.
36 Cf. GS 22 § 1.
37 St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5,4,19:PL 16:450-451.
38 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 11:PL 4:526B.
39 St. John Chrysostom, De orat Dom. 3:PG 51,44.
40 St. Gregory Of Nyssa, De orat. Dom. 2:PG 44,1148B.
41 Mt 18:3.
42 Cf. Mt 11:25.
43 St. John Cassian, Coll. 9,18:PL 49,788C.
44 St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2,4,16:PL 34,1276.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: bradley Date: August 18, 2015, 8:53 am
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Although I tend to mostly pray whats on my heart. I do like
the Lords pray and whenever I am uncertain if I need to include
more, I always add in the His will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. I always felt that covered nearly everything.
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