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2826 By prayer we can discern
‘what is the will of God’ and obtain the endurance
to do it.~08Jesus teaches us that one enters the ingdom
of heaven not by speaking words, but by doing ‘the will
f my Father in heaven’.’09
827 ‘If any one is a worshipper of God and does his
will, God 2611 ‘stens to him.”° Such is
the power of the Church’s prayer in the ame of her
Lord, above all in the Eucharist. Her prayer is also a
ommunion of intercession with the all-holy Mother of
God” d all the saints who have
been pleasing to the Lord because they illed his will alone:
It would not be inconsistent with the
truth to understand the words, ‘Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven’, to mean: ‘in the
Church as in our Lord Jesus Christ himself’; or
‘in the Bride who has been betrothed, 796 just
as in the Bridegroom who has accomplished the will
of the
‘Give Us This Day Our Daily
Bread’ 828 ‘Give us’: the trust of children
who look to their Father for 2778
- verything is beautiful. ‘He makes his sun rise on
the evil and on e good, and sends rain on the just and on
the unjust.”3 He gives
ctition, because it glorifies our Father by
acknowledging how ood he is, beyond all goodness.
829 ‘Give us’ also expresses the covenant. We
are his and he is urs, for our sake.
But this ‘us’ also recognizes him as the Father of
11 men and we pray to him for them all, in solidarity
with their 1939 eeds and sufferings.
e nourishment life requires — all
appropriate goods and blessings, 2633 oth material and
spiritual. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus sists on the
filial trust that co—operates with our Father’s
provi— ence.”5 He is not inviting us to
idleness,”6 but wants to relieve us om nagging worry
and preoccupation. Such is the filial surrener of the
children of God: To those who seek the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, he has promised to
give all else besides. Since everything indeed belongs to |
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