Uma
reflexão a partir de Mt 5, 7-15
Jesus teaches his
disciples to pray, and calls attention to the need of an attitude of son who goes to the father with confidence. We should not make the prayer an act of exhibitionism, but abandonment
in the hands of the one who knows the needs of the sons
and daughters well before they
ask something. The true prayer is an act of
surrender. Who prays truly who is able to abandon himself in the hands of God and
not just who only does his duty, carrying ready and defined
formulas. The first part of the prayer that Jesus teaches comes from the recognition
of the fatherhood of God, manifested through his solicitude and kindness. In this prayer, everything that comes after is subordinate to the word Father. It is
necessary to do the Father's will so that his kingdom happens on earth as in heaven.
To this Father we must address with
confident, certain that we received a lot. We ask for bread, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Thus, “of his kindness
we received grace upon grace.”
This prayer confirms the loving care of God
who shares his gifts with his sons and daughters,
hoping that we may do the same with
others in order that the fraternity
may be an authentic sign of his paternity and instrument
of his mercy. Our petition reveals that we worry about others and not only with our personal needs. The “Our Father” teaches to ask the necessary,
that is, “the daily bread” because
it is needed that we take place radically against all form of accumulation and waste,
which spoils the fraternity,
making to suffer the poor, the hungry. About this subject, thus says the pope Francis: “The consumerism has led us to get used to the superfluous, with the daily waste food... we should always remember that the
food that we throw in the trash
is as if we
had stolen from the
table of who is poor, of who is hungry."
For St. John Calabria, “the
Our Father is, so to speak, the Holy
Gospel in miniature. All problems must be
considered and studied in relation
and harmony with the fatherhood
of God.” If we say “Our Father” is because
we believe that we are brothers of
many (others). God does not do discrimination of people and does not forget any
of his sons and daughters.
So, does not please him a prayer that does not have in
consideration other brothers and sisters. God does not always give us what we ask, but
always gives what we need. If sometimes we do not receive what we ask it is because we do not ask as it should be, or because, we lack the true attitude
and motivations required by Jesus when he taught his disciples to pray. The “Our Father” is an easy prayer to
make, but it is not always easy to pray the “Our Father”, because not only
speaks of our relationship with God, but questions our way of being brotherly. In short, we are
called to live the brotherhood from the fatherhood of God and to have a heart of children, because
“who does not live as a child does not learn to be a brother.”
Pe. Degaaxé
Revision: Brother
Cipriano
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