When teaching the disciples how to pray, Jesus warned them not to "babble like the pagans" who thought that the multiplication of words word make their prayers more effective. (cf. Mt 6:7) On the contrary, Jesus honed it down to seven direct and simple petitions. We can scoot through these in less than ten seconds, but there is too much food for reflection in each to skip like a robot to the Amen, . If we find ourselves rattling off words and at the Amen before we even realize it, we are not praying. Ir is here that we should stop, sweep our minds clear and start over, praying as much as possible from the heart and chreshing what we are saying...This is the prayer that Jesus, the Son of God, taught us...We owe it as much reverence and attention that we cam muster. Not a bad practice to add to our Lenten resolves to connect more deeply to Jesus.
Bro. Rene
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