
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
 for October 11th, 2017
 Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
 Opt. Memorial POPE ST. JOHN XXIII
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BEFORE teaching the “Our Father”, Jesus says to the Apostles:
This is how you are to pray. (Matt 6:9)
Yes, how, not necessarily what. That is, Jesus was revealing not so much the content of what to pray, but the disposition of the heart; He was not giving a specific prayer so much as showing us how, as God’s children, to approach Him. For just a couple verses earlier, Jesus said, “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.”  Rather…Continue reading →