Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- On Earth, As it is In Heaven

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 06-16-2022 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

MATTHEW 6:7-15

Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the Our Father. It asks that God’s will be done "on earth as it is in heaven,"
but biblical cosmology sees these two realms as interpenetrating fields of force. Heaven,
the arena of God and the angels, touches upon and calls out to earth,
the arena of humans, animals, plants, and planets.

Salvation, therefore, is a matter of the meeting of heaven and earth,
so that God might reign as thoroughly here below as he does on high.
Jesus’ great prayer, which is constantly on the lips of Christians,
is distinctively Jewish in inspiration:
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

This is decidedly not a prayer that we might escape from the earth,
but rather that earth and heaven might come together.
The Lord’s Prayer raises to a new level what the prophet Isaiah anticipated:
"The earth shall be filled with knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea."

The first Christians saw the Resurrection of Jesus as the commencement of the process by which earth and heaven were being reconciled.
They appreciated the risen Christ as the one who would bring the justice of heaven to this world.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
“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 who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.’

“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.”+++

[DannyTN]

Here's the one that worries me...

Matthew 18:18 Whatever you allow on earth will have been allowed in heaven. “I tell you the truth, whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

And I just wonder if we are turning Heaven into Hell?

[roving]

The lords prayer was just an example. Its not meant to mindlessly repeat over and over.

[ebb tide]

Jesus’ great prayer, which is constantly on the lips of Christians,
is distinctively Jewish in inspiration:
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

How so, Boobie? Why aren't the Jews doing the will of Jesus' Father?

[MurphsLaw]

Wherever there are humans...
There's always that potential...

[MurphsLaw]

The lords prayer was just an example. Its not meant to mindlessly repeat over and over.

What?
Where does it say in the Bible this Prayer,
The Lord himself gave his Disciples,
Was ONLY an "example" ?
He clearly says on Sacred Scripture...
" PRAY THEN IN THIS WAY"...
You trying to pull rank on Jesus here? If God says to pray this way you do it...everyday!

"Example" my butt...
Where do you learn this affront to Scripture?
AND quite to the contrary - Christ even calls out as wrong! - the made up, rambling prayers we hear in the way so many modern Christians pray now... (Swaggart prayers I'll call 'em)
Specifically As HOW NOT TO PRAY TO GOD!...

If you are blowing off The "Our Father" prayer Christ gave us...
Your blowing off Christ himself as well...

7 “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 “Pray then in this way:...

[MurphsLaw]

Yeah sure...
Because Jews were CERTAINLY NOT about KINGS AND KINGDOMS... back in the O.T. - or even now...
"Thy Kingdom" is only a Catholic teaching... right?

[ebb tide]

Because Jews were CERTAINLY NOT about KINGS AND KINGDOMS... back in the O.T. - or even now...

Are you talking about the Jews who rejected their Savior and called for His Crucifixion?

Or are you talking about the Jews who, to this day, reject their Savior?