We are never alone! Our Holy Father speaks about praying the “Our Father...”

As we pray, we draw into closer and closer friendship with God. Today I saw this beautiful butterfly doing exactly what he was created to do. Trough prayer, we can ask for the grace to do what our Father has planned for our lives...“Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you...” (Is 43:4, RSV) Imagine! These are the true words of our Father in heaven to us.

The Lord’s Prayer “is the most perfect of prayers..” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2763). When we gather together in prayer at mass, in our ENDOW studies....in our families...even when we are by our selves, we are never alone when we pray the Our Father! An article from ZENIT reports Pope Benedict XVI’s instruction to the faithful on the Lord’s Prayer. Our Holy Father says “Every time we recite the Our Father our voice interweaves with the voice of the Church, because no one who prays is ever alone.” In saying this prayer we all know and love, “We are before the first words of sacred Scripture that we have known since childhood. They fix themselves in the memory, they form our lives, they accompany us until our last breaths. They reveal...”(read full article).

I encourage all women of ENDOW to spend time today praying the Our Lord's Prayer with focused attention. You might ask in prayer, “What will you have me do for you today, our loving Father?” Let us join into this blessed interweaving of voices by praying now “Our Father who art in heaven......."