Our Father in heaven

TUESDAY 3 MARCH (Mt 6,7-15)

The Lord was not the Creator of man. Every day he is his daily Creator. Give us our daily creation today according to your will. The Lord after having made man in his image and likeness, he placed him in the garden of Eden with the body; with the spirit and with the soul he placed him in his Word, in his Will and in his Law. Prayer is a request to the Creator and our Lord that today, in this instant, he places us in his Word, in his will, in his Law and in his Gospel. This is the truth that man must never forget. Like a tree, if it wants to live and produce fruit, it must remain planted in the ground, if it is uprooted it is death, so it’s for every man. If he wants to live and bear fruit he must ask the Lord without interruption to plant him in his Word, in his heart, in his will and in his desires. Man lives drawing the sap of life from the heart of his God. He can draw it if he is well rooted in his will and in his Law.

With the coming of Christ Jesus, the ground in which man must be planted is the body of Christ, with his body in the body of Christ, with the soul in the soul of Christ, with the spirit in the Spirit of Christ, becoming his disciple, man might produce fruits of eternal life. That is how this truth is revealed by St. Paul:  “So, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ. For in him dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily, and you share in this fullness in him, who is the head of every principality and power. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. And even when you were dead (in) transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions; obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross; despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it” (Col 2,6-15). And that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph 3,17-19). The will of the Father is that every man confesses that Christ the Lord is the only way, the only life, the only truth, the only mediation and the only grace. The Father gives everything in Christ, through Christ and with Christ.

In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. “This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one. If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.

When might the Lord plant a man in Christ, when might he give him Christ as his daily nourishment for the soul, the spirit and the body? Only when the man wants it, will ask it and will desire it with ardent desire, when he will forgive every offense and when he will decide to separate himself from the evil. God cannot do anything if man does not want to. In prayer the will is given to God, his will is assumed as our will. In Christ, through the Spirit, the Father must create us every day in his truth and in his love. Every day we must ask the Lord to make this perennial new creation. Every day we are asked to put ourselves in the hands of the Father as the clay is placed in the hands of the potter. Prayer is the delivery of life to the Father.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help so that every day we become new creatures.