Day 354: The Prayer of the Church (2025)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 354. We're reading paragraphs 2765 to 2772. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
You can also download your own Catechism in-ear reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe. What? What can you click? You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is, we're continuing to talk about the Our Father. In fact, we will continue to talk about the Lord's Prayer until the last day of this year, until day 365. Today, though, we're talking about what do we call this prayer? We call it the Lord's Prayer or Oratio Dominica. It means that the prayer to our Father is taught and given to us by the Lord Jesus. So this is the prayer that comes from him. That's why we call it the Lord's Prayer. We also call it the Our Father because we're talking to the Father.
But we realize that Jesus, when he gave us this prayer, he didn't just give us a formula to repeat mechanically. He gave us, this is a prayer that gives us access to the Father in this really mysterious and unique way. We're meant to pray, though, in spirit and in truth. It's also, we're gonna hear today, the prayer of the church. And it belongs in the context, not only of your private prayer and my private prayer, but also belongs in the context of of liturgical prayer in the context of the church. And so we're looking at that right now. Let's call upon our Father, call upon the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit and pray, Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ, in the power of your Holy Spirit, we ask that you please.
Please renew in us a spirit of adoption. Renew in us that spirit that enables us to cry out, Abba, Father. Lord God, in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, we ask that you please renew that in us so that when we pray, we can pray not only with our words and our lips, but also in the depths of our heart and our very lives.
Lord God, in this moment, we give you this moment. In this moment, we give you the rest of our day. In this moment, we give you the rest of this week, the rest of this month, the rest of this year. In this moment, Lord God, we give you the rest of our lives. In this moment, we entrust to you everything, our cares, our worries, our work, our family, our friends, everything that battles for our attention, Lord God, we entrust them to you. And we trust you with them. Lord God, come and meet us in our need. Teach us to pray and help us to live in such a way that you are known, that you are loved, and that your children, that your children would come to know and love you as well.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's day 354. We're reading paragraphs 2765 to 2772. The Lord's Prayer The traditional expression, the Lord's Prayer, or Ratio Dominica, means that the prayer to our Father is taught and given to us by the Lord Jesus. The prayer that comes to us from Jesus is truly unique. It is of the Lord. On the one hand, in the words of this prayer, the only Son gives us the words the Father gave Him. He is the master of our prayer. On the other, as word incarnate, he knows in his human heart the needs of his human brothers and sisters and reveals them to us. He is the model of our prayer. But Jesus does not give us a formula to repeat mechanically.
As in every vocal prayer, it is through the word of God that the Holy Spirit teaches the children of God to pray to their father.
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