Bishop Martin\nMtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga has taken the opportunity of the blessing of\nSt Martin\u2019s (Fulirwa) Catholic Church to deliver catechesis on the Lord\u2019s\nPrayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his reflection\non the prayer, which is commonly referred to as prayer to Our Father, the\nBishop said Jesus that in the prayer, Jesus did not only give us the words to\nuse when praying, but also taught us how to pray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bishop then\nisolated five themes contained in the Lord\u2019s prayer which are; relating to God in\nan intimate way as Our Father; praying for the will of God to be done always;\npraying for our needs as represented by \u201cour daily bread\u201d; asking for\nforgiveness of our sins and finally asking God to deliver us from evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Bishop,\nthe opening words of the Lord\u2019s Prayer are about the establishment of our deep\nand intimate relationship with our God who is our Creator, and giving him the\ntotal respect he deserves as God, the source of our being<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, he\npointed out that when praying to God we need to ask for the will of God, and\nnot our will, to be done. He said Jesus set a good example on this one as he\nasked his Father, in prayer, that his will be done; and God\u2019s will was indeed\ndone to Jesus, his Son. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He also indicated\nthat when we pray the Lord\u2019s Prayer, we also pray for the food that we need to\nbe taking as we move on towards our destiny as Christians. This food, according\nto the Bishop, is not limited to bread alone but extends to the Word of God, as\nit is our spiritual food, which we need to be taking as we journey towards God\nin heaven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He also emphasized that in the Lord\u2019s Prayer, we ask God to forgive us the sins that we commit in our everyday life as imperfect beings and at the same time we ask God to protect us from the evils of this world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, he said\nthere are so many principles and ideologies in this world that contradict the\nvalues of the kingdom of God and so in this prayer we ask God to protect us\nfrom such evil ideologies and principles of this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Benedict Kauteka Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga has taken the opportunity of the blessing of St Martin\u2019s (Fulirwa) Catholic Church to deliver catechesis on the Lord\u2019s Prayer. In his reflection on the prayer, which is commonly referred to as prayer to Our Father, the Bishop said Jesus that in the prayer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60,131],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karonga-diocese","tag-bishop-martin-mtumbuka","tag-karonga-diocese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}