“Our Father”

Growth Path 2014-2015

Starting this weekend, the whole Community begins the new 2014/2015 growth journey on the theme“The Lord’s Prayer: the disciples’ prayer.”

Here is the presentation of the General Managers:

Our path for this year’s journey will be the Our Father, the prayer given by Jesus to his own, which teaches us to turn to the Father as he himself does.By learning to pray like Jesus and with Jesus we will travel a journey of growth in confident abandonment but also in determination to do God’s will.

In fact, the Our Father is the prayer of the disciples, that is, of those who, wanting to imitate Jesus, desire to unite themselves with the Father not only with feelings of affection, but with concrete decisions that lead them to conform to his will.
The Our Father is the prayer that we repeat every day in the hope of being increasingly assimilated, by the Spirit who prays in us, to Jesus who delivered it to us, learning from him to adhere to God’s will for us.

The Our Father is the prayer that makes us adults in the faith, people who have decided to be and remain with Jesus, but who are equally aware of their own weakness.

We hope that for the whole Magnificat Community this journey can be a tool to grow in confidence with Jesus and his Father and our Father, so that trust in him and surrender to his will will make us increasingly ready to respond to the vocation we have received.

There is a tradition, passed down orally, about how St. Francis recited the Our Father… we like to conclude this presentation by reporting one of the many versions.

Brother Masseo was with St. Francis on the Mount of Verna and challenged him one evening to a singular contest: which of the two would be able to recite the most Our Fathers during the night. They decided they would count them with pebbles.
The next day, Friar Masseo, with his hands full of pebbles went to Francis, apostrophizing him with a phrase of victory: “Here are the Our Fathers I recited on this night. Show me yours!”

Francis, with a sense of admiration said to his companion, “Blessed are you! I have not been able to finish a single Our Father. I stopped on the words Our Father for the whole night!”

General managers