In the first reading Paul writes about Peter as the apostle of the Jews and himself as the apostle of the pagans. He also mentions special concern for the poor.
In the Gospel reading Jesus gives us the most popular, perhaps the most important, prayer in our Christian tradition, the “Our Father.”
We learn so much from this prayer given by Jesus himself.
When we pray we pray to our Father, not to the all powerful God and Creator, not to the Supreme Lord and Master.. Jesus invites us to share this intimacy with his Father in heaven and to experience this in prayer. So often and so many times in Matthew’s Sermon the Mount Jesus spoke of his Father, of our Father.