Lent is a time of grace, and what grace do we need more than the gift of prayer? Today’s reading offers the familiar prayer Jesus taught, the Our Father. What better prayer can we pray? We know it by rote. What better grace than that Jesus teach us its inexhaustible secrets ?
“Lord, teach us to pray.”
You give us, your children, the words to say,
tell us what they mean;
make them lead to you.
Bring us as we pray into that Presence within,
where words end
and where we rest in you.
