Dr. Otatti,
- Matthew’s Lord’s Prayer
- to “ ..father who is in secret…”
- understood to be an instruction as well as an actual prayer
- Luke, Ch. 2-4
- After “teachings” in other areas
- Prayer then is also a teaching on how to pray
- Heidelberg Catechism (2nd Gen)
- Lords Prayer
- Important because
- Part of our gratitude
- 120, 129, catechumen learns by doing and reflecting
- John Calvin “Institutes of Christian Religion”
- Ch20, Bk 3, Topic of Prayer
- “True wisdom is knowledge of God and ourselves”
- knowledge of self = knowledge of God
- prayer = secret and hidden philosophy
- = experientially wisdom, insisting self is a relation to God and others
- “our father” indicates love and excellent care
- also, out, we are all one family
- Communion with God = Community with others
- Pray for only what is modeled in the prayer
- Walter Rauschenbusch
- Claimed we had missed the meanign of the prayer
- Does NOT focus on individual soul and eternal reward
- Kingdom – precedes and outranks all religion
- We pray the divine resolution
- It is a political and social institution
- Again OUR daily bread
- Leonardo Boff
- Process.. the prayer is headed for a destination
- A Final place of “ peace and justice”
- Sees the prayer as a prayer of liberation, it PUTS you in a place
- Kingdom = total revolution of structures
- Fears that “our daily bread” is “reduced” to just the sacraments
- This prayer takes bodily need seriously
- Material meaning serves the Eucharistic meaning
Usually we press piety and prayer into the service of our own selfish desires --- we NEED to be taught how to pray.
What is the background of the apostle’s original question, how should we pray?
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