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02 – Our Father!
One of the most familiar passages in the Bible is the Lord’s Prayer—taught by Jesus and recognized around the world. It comes from His longest recorded teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, preserved most fully in the Gospel of Matthew.
Why spend time reflecting on this prayer? Because although millions of people have repeated it over the past 2,000 years, not everyone fully understands it.
That’s why we’re starting our Dedinhos de Prosa (“Small Talks”) series with this beloved prayer. Let’s explore together what Jesus meant to teach us through it. I invite you to join these reflections. Shall we begin?
Before giving the prayer itself, Jesus first taught His disciples—and us—about how to pray. He wasn’t talking about body posture, a specific place, or any outward form. Instead, He was pointing to the posture of the soul, the desires of the heart, and the motivations of the spirit. He spoke of the intimacy of approaching God as our Father.
The disciples had to learn two things: how to pray, and how to make prayer a daily practice. And we need to learn the same two lessons today!
About this Plan
My dear friends, in the Sermon on the Mount—the longest recorded discourse of Jesus Christ in the Gospels—we find the prayer known as the “Our Father” or the “Lord’s Prayer.” Before teaching His disciples this prayer, Jesus first taught them how to pray. That is the focus of this series of reflections: what the right posture is when we approach God in prayer. Not the physical posture—whether kneeling, standing, sitting, or lying down—but the posture of the heart!
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