Psalm 145 1
I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. David teaches us how to praise God and truly speak to the Lord with words which do not plead for earthly needs, for physical comforts, for any of those usual requests by man, who asks the Most High for very earthly things. It is not a sin to ask for them. The Most Holy Lord Jesus Christ has taught men to ask for their daily bread. But, if one were to properly meditate on it, He placed this request-for an entirely human need-after the three sublime requests:
These are words from the Our Father. The prayer that Jesus teaches us. The perfect prayer, because it is taught by the Word. After the 3 sublime words of prayer, only we ask God for our earthy needs when we say 'Give us this day our daily bread'. After this, the prayer rises up again from the human need for food to the spiritual needs of the soul when we say "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,' We finish by asking our Father to depend us from temptation, thus concluding the prayer at the spiritual level. This prayer, without any gap or defect, teaches man how, why, and for what he should pray. But man generally does nothing but pray for earthly and material needs. And if it were only for the need of bread! The ones who prays only for spiritual things and for the glory of God and the welfare of his brothers are like a star set aflame. Heaven sees these solitary people at prayer, and their prayers reach heaven like a song amidst the poor and earthy requests of ninety percent of creatures. Blessed are those who are able to pray for the spirit and for spiritual things. More blessed are those who are able to pray not even to ask for holy things, but to say, 'You, that know what is best for me, give me what's best.' Most blessed are those who come to forget about themselves and asking God to do what is best, but say only, 'I pray that what is for your glory and what may serve to sanctify my brothers and sisters may be accomplished.' "Then the one at prayer rises to perfect prayer, to that which forgets one's own martyrdoms, but entreats for others. The prayer of Most Holy Jesus on the Cross, even loftier than the prayer of obedience in Gethsemane. Loftier because it is perfect charity: 'Father, forgive them.' Comments are closed.
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