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227 God, he who possesses God wants
for nothing, if he himself is not found
wanting before God.”7 2831 But the presence of those who hunger because
they lack bread opens up another profound meaning of
this petition. The drama of hunger in the world calls
Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility
toward their brethren, both in their personal behaviour and
in their solidarity with the human family. This petition of
the Lord’s Prayer cannot be isolated from the
2832 As leaven in the dough, the newness
of the Kingdom should make the earth ‘rise’ by the
Spirit of Christ.”9 This must be shown
and international relations, without ever
forgetting that there are no just structures without people
who want to be just.
share both material and spiritual goods, not
by coercion but out of love, so that the abundance of some
may remedy the needs of others. 2834
‘Pray and work.”2’ ‘Pray as if
everything depended on God
have done our work, the food we receive is
still a gift from our Father; it is good to ask him for
it and to thank him, as Christian families do when
saying grace at meals. 2835 This petition, with the responsibility it
involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are
perishing: ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but... by
every word that proceeds from the mouth of
God’,’23 that is, by the Word he speaks and the
Spirit h breathes forth. Christians must make every effort
‘to proclaim th
of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of
hearing the words of th LORD’.’24 For this
reason the specifically Christian sense of th’ fourth
petition concerns the Bread of Life: the Word of Go
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