Commentary on the Gospel of

Fr. Roland Chidi, cmf

Matthew 6:7-15 – Your Father knows … he’s in relationship

-        Our Father … recognition

-        Give us … secured in God

-        As we forgive … copying God’s unconditional love.

Today, we are presented with the prayer that the disciple prays; the prayer that only the person who is in relationship with the Father, like Jesus, can convincingly offer. It begins with a recognition, an acknowledgment of an already established bond: The Father-child relationship. The child who prays restates that he/she is in a divine-human relationship, a God-human or transpersonal relationship – the highest level of all human relationships! What a privilege!!

The second powerful impression from this pattern of all prayers is the trust level. The disciple confidently asks the Father for one’s needs. It feels great to be secured, even more, secured in trusting the Father. There are different levels and forms of security – like the fraternal trust security, maternal trust security, friend-trust security, neighbour-trust security, etc. The child of God develops a divine trust security. The disciple feels secured in God the Father, hence confidently asks, knocks and seeks without doubt – ‘give us our daily bread.’

The saying goes, ‘show me your friend and I tell you who you are!’ The disciple-child of God, draws very close to the Father, copies from his Father’s Son ‘Jesus the Christ’ on how to relate with the Father. He/she learns to let go of the enemies of spiritual bonding with the Father by forgiving them unconditionally – ‘forgive us … as we forgive those who sin against us.’  

O God, give us the grace to faithfully call you Father in thought and in deed; inspire us to ever trust you in joy and in hardship; and prompt us to always detach ourselves for your sake, through Christ our Lord, amen.

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