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2663 In the living tradition of prayer, each Church proposes to 1201 her faithful, according to her historic, social and cultural context, a language for prayer: words, melodies, gestures, iconography. The Magisterium of the Church5 has the task of discerning the fidelity of these ways of praying to the tradition of apostolic faith; it is for pastors and catechists to explain their meaning, always in relation to Jesus Christ. Prayer to the Father 2664 There is no other way of e than Christ.
Whether our prayer is communal or personal, vocal or
interior, it has access to the Father only if we pray
in the name ofJesus. The sacred humanity of
Jesus is therefore the way by which the Holy
Spirit teaches us to pray to God our Father.
Prayer to Jesus 2665 The prayer
of the Church, nourished by the Word of God and the
celebration of the liturgy, teaches us to pray to the Lord
451 L Jesus. Even though her prayer
is addressed above all to the Father,
it includes in all the liturgical traditions forms of
prayer addressed to Christ. Certain psalms, given their use
in the Prayer of the Church, and the New Testament place on
our lips and engrave in our hearts prayer to Christ in the
form of invocations: Son of God, Word of God, Lord, Saviour,
Lamb of God, King, Beloved Son, Son of the Virgin, Good
Shepherd, our Life, our Light, our Hope, our Resurrection,
Friend of mankind... - 2666 But
the one name that contains everything is the one that the
Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. The
divine name 432 may not be spoken by human lips, but by
assuming our humanity the Word of God hands it over to us
and we can invoke it: Jesus, YHWH
saves.6 The name Jesus contains all:
God and man and ~ the whole economy of creation and
salvation. To pray Jesus is to invoke him and to
call him within us. His name is the only one that contains
the presence it signifies. Jesus is the Risen One, and
whoever invokes the name of Jesus is welcoming the Son of
God who loved him and who gave himself up for him.7 |
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