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By Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, Catholic Herald, March 18, 2024
The call to prayer requires teaching and encouragement. While we were made by God and for God, and have a natural desire for union with God, we need help in understanding and realising how to pursue and live this union with our heavenly Father.
As we have to learn how to pray, the same is true of the Lord Jesus in his human nature. As he veiled his divine nature while among us, his human nature had to learn as we learn. He was taught how to pray in the intimacy of the Holy Family.
We can imagine the endearing scene of Our Lady and Saint Joseph teaching the Christ Child how to pray. …
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