The Newness of Jesus

He who knows something about the meanings of the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father Who art in heaven) does not miss that, in it, Jesus has called on us to break the distance which God had broken between Himself and us. This is not revealed only by His calling on us that with boldness we may say to God: “our Father”, but also that we live on earth, groaning with our desire for heaven (2 Corinthians 5:2)! This is the newness of Jesus that is manifest in this prayer of which some of our Fathers have said that it is the summary of the New Testament. Am I extolling, at random, those who repeat this prayer? Anyone who looks at us is capable, without using a microscope, to know that, most of the time, we do not mean what we say in our prayer. Jesus said that he who deserves to be with God in heaven must appear, in every detail of his life, to be a child of God, in love and forgiveness... The children of God know that their Father, in His glory, gives them what they themselves distribute on earth!