In today’s gospel, the disciples say to Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray.” Yet these are men who were already very religious, men who already prayed. Why would they ask that?
They want to pray with the same intimacy and confidence they observe in Jesus.
They must have rejoiced when Jesus instructed them, “When you pray, say: Our Father.”
When we belong to God as his children—when we have been “buried with Christ in baptism”—we possess the courage, to draw near and ask the Lord to “forsake not the work of his hands.” In asking the Lord to teach them to pray, the disciples seek to live as friends of God.
Let us pray with the devotion of sons and daughters.
Smitten With Goodness 