Lord, teach us to pray

Religious groups in Israel in Jesus' time would be known by their specific practices of piety and their particular kind of prayer.

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The Pharisees' group would have their own favorite prayer, and the “Baptist’s group” had theirs as well, as John taught his disciples.

The Baptist group would probably pray to God to soon reveal the Messiah, as John was preparing his way. Upon the request of his own disciples for their “own” prayer, Jesus gives them the Our Father. It is the prayer of the Messiah who knows the heart of God, born of Jesus' intimacy with God whom he addresses as Abba/Father when he thanks him and even when he struggles to do his will during his passion. It is a prayer that swells from the human spirit as the Holy Spirit prompts us to call God “Abba,

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Father!” (Gal 4:6).