Pope Francis In a recent phone call to an Italian teenager shows a significant change in the Papacy, a return to Biblical roots and humility and a closeness to God.
The writers of the Gospels record that when Jesus’ followers ask him, how should we pray Jesus replies “Our Father….”
Scholars write the English translation of abba (Greek: Αββα, Aramaic: אבא) are best captured by father, dad, daddy, in English
You and I ought to follow the Gospels and the Pope, in not making God distant. We ought to be humble and familiar. We need to reflect Christ in the world and not man’s image of Christ, not my image of Christ. We ought to allow God’s Spirit to fill us, to study the scripture and live the gospels. Each day we should examine out performance, apologise for our failings and ask for the grace to be more like Christ.
And we should pray
The Pope’s famous phone call to an Italian teenager is more significant than we first thought “He said to me, do you think the Apostles would have used the polite form with Christ? “Would they have called him your excellency? They were friends, just as you and I are now, and with friends I’m accustomed to using ‘tu’.
The writers of the Gospels record that when Jesus’ followers ask him, how should we pray Jesus replies “Our Father….”
Scholars write the English translation of abba (Greek: Αββα, Aramaic: אבא) are best captured by father, dad, daddy, in English
You and I ought to follow the Gospels and the Pope, in not making God distant. We ought to be humble and familiar. We need to reflect Christ in the world and not man’s image of Christ, not my image of Christ. We ought to allow God’s Spirit to fill us, to study the scripture and live the gospels. Each day we should examine out performance, apologise for our failings and ask for the grace to be more like Christ.
And we should pray
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
