Pater Noster

Just a few thoughts

·         Ooops! Yesterday I overlooked that we celebrated/contemplated The Chair of Peter.

·         “Peter’s call to be shepherds of the flock is not just for those involved in pastoral or clerical hierarchies. It is good advice for any leader to be aware of any tendencies to be dictatorial. Rather than demanding people follow their rules and whims, good leaders (in any setting) ‘show’, rather than tell.”

·         For Pope Francis, bishop of Rome and universal pastor, that he will stay strong in spirit and ever true to the Gospel of mercy.   Let us pray to the Lord.   --  Prayers of the People

Reflection.

ü  When we pray the Our Father we are not praying to him, but with him; we are praying his prayer. We are so close to him that we do not see him! We are (so to speak) inside his mind looking out through his eyes and seeing, like him, only the Father. 

The Signs Of The Times

Ø  “God is always more than what we can think or imagine.

We want a God who will take care of us. But God is saying “No, I’ll take care of you by being for you and by being for you I will liberate you. I will be with you as you create, as you imagine, as you join together, as you resist, as you create new structures, as you cyborgize, as you trust in the future that is yours and mine together.”  -- 

Sr Ilia Delio, OSF is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and theologian specialising in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.

Ø  New Language for a New Story  --  Barbara Holme

Musical Reflection

¯ Pater Noster  --  P Green

¯ Pater Noster  · Nóirín Ní Riain and Irish Monks

¯ Our Father  --  Russian  --  Kings Singers

¯ The Lord’s Prayer  --  Andrea Bocelli

¯ The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, the language of Jesus

¯ The Lord’s Prayer from African Sanctus