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The Mass fulfills the Lord’s Prayer, word for word:
In the Mass we renew our baptism vows in our Creed and make the Sign of the Cross as we are signed in Baptism. We can now call God “our Father.”
We are in Heaven with Him because we have lifted up our hearts to Him.
We have hallowed His name by our prayers and listening to His Word.
We have united our sacrifice with Jesus’ eternal Sacrifice so God’s will is being done on Earth as it is eternally done in Heaven.
We have Jesus before us, our daily Bread.
The Eucharist forgives us our trespasses because it wipes away venial sin.
Through the Eucharist we know mercy, so we then give mercy by forgiving those who trespass against us. We offer peace to our fellow men.
The Eucharist gives us new strength over temptation and delivers us from evil.
Is it not beautiful and miraculous that Christ’s perfect prayer is mirrored in His perfect Sacrifice?
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“Give us this day our daily bread” became much clearer for me last August, when I was preparing to be Lector for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The first reading was from Exodus 16. In verse 4, the Lord said to Moses, “I will now rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion . . .” In verse 15, when the Israelites asked one another what the fine flakes on the ground were, Moses told them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.”
The Gospel reading was from John 6, which ended as follows:
So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
Indeed! Jesus Christ is our daily bread.