tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post3731882002656953920..comments2024-03-17T22:48:00.427+08:00Comments on Reflections and Ruminations: The place of the Lord’s Prayer in the Eucharistic CelebrationFr Luke Fonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079016104331055895noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-36844200914511112482012-10-12T12:45:23.491+08:002012-10-12T12:45:23.491+08:00Thank you Tessa, for a most meaningful and insight...Thank you Tessa, for a most meaningful and insightful reply. That part about even the angels not having the privilege to call God "father" makes one appreciate the tremendous depth of God's love for us. Indeed it IS unfathomable!<br />God bless. Robbie Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-73755491683481667142012-10-11T21:23:57.549+08:002012-10-11T21:23:57.549+08:00This ‘Our Father’ prayer was recited by all of us ...This ‘Our Father’ prayer was recited by all of us as the daily morning prayer for the beginning of each school day in the mission school that I attended….even though the majority of us were un-baptized or pagans. Even after baptism, like most Catholics, I have been unquestioning about the what and why - in the saying of this prayer until I started to journey with catechumens in the RCIA. Then what you said, - ‘This prayer in its deepest roots makes the most sense when it is prayed by the baptized who want to live the Christ-ed life….…’ makes sense for me. For before this, I was of the impression that God being creator implies that his fatherhood is universal and everyone (baptized or pagan) can say this prayer meaningfully calling him father. But I was told ( in RCIA catechesis) that in this prayer, we are to come before God, regarding him as father not through creation, but through adoption and the new birth ( baptism) - for he created so many things and the angels too and they were never told to call him father! We are indeed privileged.<br /><br />So in the mass, when the celebrant says that “at the Saviour’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say”,…….it becomes clear to me that it is through Christ’s saving action and my baptism that has earned for me the un-merited grace to call God, father.<br /><br />Thank you Fr for a very meaningful post.<br />God bless you.<br /><br />tessa<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com