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The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
7. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread Today’s prayer for today’s needs!! Jesus taught “the power of now” – well before contemporary gurus. No accruals from yesterday. No deferrals for tomorrow. Pretty sly of you, God! You know how to keep your power base. Tomorrow I’ll have to ask you again. But you know my A.D.D. distractions, my impatience when you don’t answer right away and my insecurity that you might not be there tomorrow… So, I have an idea. Why can’t I make one big prayer payment for the month – like I pay my bills? Umm – I don’t see you nodding, yes. Well, then please…
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The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “On Earth As It Is In Heaven”
6. On Earth As It Is In Heaven Earth, my hood; Heaven, your hood Your hood’s far away and perfect – Mine’s in my face and flawed I want my earth to be like your heaven – and I don’t want to wait until I die. So when you walk with me on my earthly journey – as you promised you would! Don’t come empty handed, bring some of heaven’s bling: happiness and glory. But I warn you. Me and hood’s my people are going to want to steal them. But I’m betting you’ll share them – at least a bit.
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The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “Thy Will be Done”
5. Thy Will Be Done Two problems with this one: # 1 I want to do my will… but, o.k. you’re God and so you win – even if I don’t like it and it’s hard. # 2 What is your will? (this is the tricky one) Is this a “tough love” or “tender kindness” day. Your boy Jesus had both – whips for the money changes in the Temple, and mercy for the woman caught in adultery. So Father, with my family, my friends my colleagues, my clients etc. etc. What do you want from me? Speak up – let me know what you want and I’ll try….…
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Tune in to JustLove This Week to Learn About National Volunteer Week and a Survivor of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide
On this week’s show Monsignor Sullivan celebrates national volunteer week with Takouhi Mosoian, who was a Catholic Charities volunteer and now works in our Community & Social Development Department. Also on the show is Immaculee Ilibagiza, a survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and current author who speaks about how her faith helped her heal from the trauma experienced during the genocide.
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The Lord’s Prayer: Twelve Tips for The Lord’s Prayer, Phrase-by-Phrase – “Thy Kingdom Come”
4. Thy Kingdom Come I usually pray for my kingdoms and their toys and their riches. Your kingdom I usually defer to heaven, and after I die – very safely distant. But if I think of your kingdom’s riches: peace, joy, happiness, justice. I sure could use now them here and now. So, your kingdom, your kingdom come! Mine can wait a bit.