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Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: \u2018Our Father who art in heaven,\u00a0hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.\u2019 If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Opening Prayer:<\/strong> I come before you today, Lord, filled with worries, distractions, and concerns. So much noise surrounds me and disturbs me! I believe that you care about everything I care about and, most important, you care about me. And so I turn my attention to you, seeking to grow in wisdom and courage through hearing you speak to my heart. Blessed be your name, O Lord!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Encountering Christ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The Mistakes of the Pagans:<\/strong> Jesus cautions us to avoid the kind of babbling prayer used by pagans. He was referring to the impersonal ritualistic practices so common in pre-Christian religions. Prayer for those religions wasn\u2019t about a <em>relationship<\/em> with God. Prayer was simply a transaction with a higher power. To get what you wanted from the deity you were addressing, you had to make a perfect performance in your ritual of prayer and worship. If you happened to sneeze or cough in the middle of your prayer, you had to start again and go through the whole ritual flawlessly. The meaning of the many words and elaborate rituals was secondary; the simple performance of them was primary. Jesus warns us about this approach to our life of piety because our human nature has a tendency to fall into this routine and ritualism. We all have a tendency to descend into a transactional approach to God and to others. How is my prayer life? Do I just go through the motions when I go to Mass and confession? Do I \u201csay my prayers\u201d without really thinking about the deeper meaning behind the words? What is Jesus saying to me today?\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Essence of Christian Prayer:<\/strong> The \u201cOur Father\u201d is the model for all Christian prayer. In fact, the entire fourth part of the <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church, <\/em>which beautifully explains the mystery of Christian prayer, is centered around a lengthy exposition of the Lord\u2019s Prayer. In giving us this outline of prayer Jesus reveals what is unique about Christian prayer: It unfolds in a true, interpersonal relationship between the believer and God. This comes across in the first words, \u201cOur Father\u2026\u201d God is not a distant deity for Christians, but a caring, approachable, wise father. He is goodness itself\u2014as comes across in the second line, \u201cwho art in heaven\u201d\u2014uncorrupted by evil or ignorance. With the gift of this prayer, Jesus wants to emphasize first and foremost that he came to extend the hand of friendship to us. Jesus is the revelation of God\u2019s desire to be in relationship with us, and prayer is a privileged arena for developing that relationship. In fact, the <em>Catechism <\/em>actually <em>defines<\/em>Christian prayer as a relationship in explaining how the fourth part of the Catechism fits in with the first three parts: \u201c\u2018Great is the mystery of the faith!\u2019 The Church professes this mystery in the Apostles\u2019 Creed (<em>Part One<\/em>) and celebrates it in the sacramental liturgy (<em>Part Two<\/em>), so that the life of the faithful may be conformed to Christ in the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father (<em>Part Three<\/em>). This mystery, then, requires that the faithful believe in it, that they celebrate it, and that they live from it in a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer.\u201d (CCC 2558)\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Dangerous Obstacle:<\/strong> Because the essence of Christian prayer is <em>relationship,<\/em> any resentments or grudges wedged into our hearts will impede our prayer. We can\u2019t approach God as our Father and expect to enjoy his friendship while at the same time harboring and feeding hostility to some of God\u2019s children. This is why Jesus emphasizes forgiving others\u2014 doing our part to reconcile with them; we can\u2019t control whether or not they do their part\u2014as a condition for receiving forgiveness from the Lord. We are all in this together. When we became Christians, we became members of God\u2019s family, and that family is meant to include every person. If we condemn anyone by closing our hearts to them and refusing to forgive them, we are closing our hearts to God as well. Nothing impedes spiritual progress and the healing, fortifying work of God\u2019s grace as much as unforgiveness. Even when people have severely hurt us and strictly speaking don\u2019t deserve to be forgiven, unless we forgive them we never escape the power they have over us. Only by forgiving can we release ourselves from the grip of our pain and make room for God\u2019s grace to heal us. Jesus doesn\u2019t ask us to forget everything that happened, or to ignore the damage done, or even to feel warm and affectionate towards those who have hurt us. True forgiveness\u2014forgiveness from the heart\u2014doesn\u2019t always transform our feelings right away. It is a decision to desire for the other person what God desires for them\u2014that his name be hallowed and his Kingdom come in their lives\u2014even if we cannot find the strength to do anything to help that happen except pray for them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conversing with Christ: <\/strong>Lord, I want to become an expert in prayer. I want to explore the Church\u2019s treasury of wisdom about prayer. I want to learn to hear your voice in my heart and respond to that voice honestly, lovingly, with faith. Please help me keep my own heart clean, unchained by resentments and unworthy attachments, so that I can walk joyfully with you through the grace-filled adventure of every day you give me of life here on earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Resolution: <\/strong>Lord, today by your grace I will learn something new about the great mystery of Christian prayer and sincerely forgive any person whom I have not yet forgiven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>For Further Reflection:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/2009273.The_Better_Part\"><em>The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fr John Bartunek, LC,\u00a0is an author, speaker, and Creative Director at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/rc-spirituality\/\">RCSpirituality<\/a>, an online spirituality center providing a variety of resources for spiritual 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