Catholic Priest BRILLIANTLY Explains and Reveals the Depths of the Lord's Prayer | Bishop Barron

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welcome back in this video Bishop Baron

provides an insightful exegesis of the

Lord's Prayer as found in the Gospel of

Luke towards the end he explains the

phrase lead us not into temptation in a

way that I had never heard before it was

extremely informative and helpful so

please be sure to stick around to about

the 12 minute Mark to hear what he has

to say on that also please be sure to

like And subscribe and if you care to

hear a few of my thoughts around the

Lord's Prayer I will provide them right

after Bishop Baron's sermon peace be

with you friends Our Gospel for today is

St Luke's version of The Lord's Prayer

the Our Father this prayer that's I mean

recited probably I don't know millions

of times a day all over the world at

every Mass if you're praying the Liturgy

of the Hours you'd pray it three times a

day think of all the people who would

recite these words there're some of the

best known words on the planet it might

be good for us therefore to walk slow

through Luke's version of it to see what

this great prayer is about what we're

asking for when we pray the Lord's

Prayer here's the first idea first I

think important

observation it it comes from jesus' own

life of prayer so he's been praying and

the disciples notice that and they say

Lord teach us how to pray think of a you

know a great basketball player a great

guitarist and people watch and say oh

teach me how to do that they they must

have noticed how intense his life of

prayer was and so they say Lord help us

to pray the way you do so this prayer

think about this when you pray the Our

Father it reflects jesus'

own prayer his own life of

prayer when you pray he says say father

Hallowed Be Your

Name father let's pause right there I

mean God could be addressed as you know

Lord master all powerful it's Etc all

those all those are true

designations that we're invited to call

him father it's suggested by some

Scholars that you know behind that is

the is the diminutive the Hebrew ABA

more like like

Daddy Jesus is uniquely the son of the

father he has that unique relationship

with him how wonderful that as we pray

this prayer he taught us we're invited

to share in that intimacy now we're not

the Sons and Daughters of the way he's

the son of God but yet he's giving us

the

privilege to enter into that kind of

intimacy with God don't don't brush over

that word when you start the Our father

that you're able to say our father in

addressing the creator of the universe

in addressing the the infinite source of

existence itself we're able to say

father because we share in Christ's own

intimacy first thing we ask him Hallowed

be thy

name now may your name be held holy it's

not as though our prayer is making his

name holy we're not praying for that as

though we have the power to do that I

mean God's name is always

holy what we're asking for is that

we always hallow the name of God now to

hallow to to hold as holy that means as

set apart

may we always consider

God a value so Supreme that every other

value by comparison simply Falls

away you I'm interested in all sorts of

things I value all kinds of things I I

value my job I value money I value my

family I value my country etc etc and if

I say well among these many values I

also value God then his name is not

being

hallowed it's not being held

holy here o Israel the Lord your God is

Lord alone the shama Deuteronomy chapter

6 this fundamental prayer of of ancient

Judaism not one value among

many not just the highest value among

many but you are Lord alone you alone

are the center of my life no value is

even in competition with

you and see as I've said many times to

you before when we get this right we get

everything else right when God's name is

held holy as hallowed well then all the

rest of my interests and all the other

values find their place around that

Central value that's why that's the

first thing we ask the father may we

hold your name your presence as hallowed

as

holy what's

next may your kingdom

come that's the Heart of Jesus preaching

right when he first appears in the Hills

of Galilee what's on his lips is the

message of the Kingdom the kingdom of

God is at hand so repent and believe the

good news the kingdom the kingdom what

is it I always follow origin here the

great church father he said Jesus Is AO

basilea that means he's the kingdom in

person see the kingdom of God means

God's Reign God's way of ordering things

because for centuries Israel longed for

this that The God Who made the world who

created the human race and wanted us to

be his his priests and His prophets and

his followers that world has fallen into

sinful disarray and and no earthly ruler

could set it right and so Israel begged

Lord come how long oh Lord when will you

come to set things right well that's

God's kingdom God's Reign How has it

happened it's happened in him in Jesus

he's the AO basilea the kingdom in

person he himself is the coming together

of divinity and Humanity he himself is

God's justice and peace reigning on the

earth and so when we say may your

kingdom come we're saying may we be

drawn more and more completely into the

power of

Jesus may this rain embodied in him

become normative for me an extraordinary

thing when you think about it that's

what we're asking for every time we say

thy kingdom

come then this and it's it's

mysterious give us each day our daily

bread now that sounds rather ordinary

but why do I say mysterious well the

Greek behind this phrase is very

strange tonon ton epion is the

Greek it means literally give

us the super substantial bread usia

means substance Epi is like on top of or

more

of give us the super substantial bread

it's very interesting you look in the

old Vulgate the the ancient Latin

rendering of the New Testament and

you'll find St Jerome translates this as

panum super

substan super substantial bread not

daily bread now I won't bore you with

the details of how we got to daily and

there's there's a way the scholars

understand that but I want to stay with

this peculiar

expression at the heart of the Lord's

Prayer give us each day our super

substantial bread are we praying just

for ordinary sustenance no it seems to

me that would be ordinary bread you know

Lord help us to have enough to live on

okay okay but we're not asking for that

we're asking for the panm super

substantial the super substantial

bread Catholics begin to hear an

overtone don't

we what's the

Eucharist not ordinary

bread but bread that has been

transubstantiated into the body and

blood of

Christ no longer ordinary bread but now

the body and blood of Christ under the

appearances of bread and wine the super

substantial bread for which we pray

every time we pray the Lord's Prayer is

precisely Christ in his Eucharistic form

see we pray that his kingdom might come

his Reign yes and and we want to be fed

because we're not just following a a

guru or a leader we want to be drawn

into him how's that happen through the

super substan IAL bread that we pray for

every time we pray this

prayer

then forgive us our

sins oh it's extraordinary everybody

isn't it I mean Jesus great teacher of

course U Prince of Peace of course the

one who's who's established this this

new way of life yes all that's

true but I think you could argue the

most important thing that Jesus does is

he forgives our sins

sins go and sin no more to the woman

caught in

adultery pick up your mat and and walk

your your sins have been

forgiven neither do I condemn

you the Forgiveness of sins is at the

very heart of what Jesus is about now

now why why well see as Lewis saw this

at the limit if you've offended me I I

could forgive you I could say look I I'm

I'm not going to hold that against you I

forgive

you but if I were to walk up to you and

say I forgive all your sins I me you

think I was out of my mind and you'd be

right because I have no business

forgiving all of your

sins who's the only one who could

reasonably do that or say that who could

say my son your sins are forgiven you

who could say that no ordinary human

being but only as lewi saw the one who

who is indeed offended in every

sin see if I'm offended by you I could

in principle forgive you but I can't

forgive you for all your sins but the

God who is offended in every sin can say

to us my son my daughter your sins are

forgiven see this is how we're drawn

into the kingdom of God this is how

we're drawn into the power of Jesus is

he forgives our sins and so in this

great prayer that's what we're asking

for Lord please forgive our sins do that

which you alone as the Son of God can

do and then right away the implication

the next thing we ask for as we forgive

those who trespass against

us it's been said I remember a great

school teacher mine a sister long long

ago

reminding us that every time we pray

this prayer that this challenge is right

in our

face Lord please forgive me for my

sins yes yes and this this incomparable

Grace comes of the Forgiveness of my

sins well now I've got to be about the

business of forgiving those who've

offended me otherwise I've not imbibed

the Forgiveness of Christ I've I've just

you know I I put it on like a garment

that I can take off if I've really taken

it on I've em bibed it it's become part

of my life well then I become a Christ

to

others think of someone who has

trespassed against you right now I mean

specifically what you're praying for is

the grace now to forgive that person as

you've been

forgiven I don't know it's one of the

most challenging elements in the whole

spiritual life I think and then One Last

Detail as as Luke um tells us do not

subject us to the final test now to

understand this we have to go back to

the first century there was a

presupposition that before the Messiah

came there'd be a period of testing and

of trial some of the apocalyptic

language in the New Testament reflects

this idea that before the Messiah comes

to set things right there'll be a

terrible time of trial

now here's I think how we understand

this yes when Jesus comes into our

dysfunctional world that's what the

kingdom means and we're we're praying

for it may your kingdom come your will

be done give us the super substantial

bread come into this dysfunctional world

of ours what will happen is the

dysfunctional world is going to rise up

in resistance now I can see that and the

grand scale but I can feel it in my own

life right fellow Sinners you can do do

that too as Christ comes into my

life I I I start resisting you know I I

I don't want that I don't want him to be

Lord in my life I don't want to change

I'm like the the Israelites in the

desert I mean take me back to the flesh

pots of Egypt I I don't like this new

spiritual

Liberty so expect it that's the point

here every time we pray the Our Father

we're we're expecting a resistance to

Christ lead us not into Temptation right

in other versions of

this expect it don't be don't be shocked

don't be surprised when a resistance to

Christ Rises up in you that's that's the

old sinful self and so the last thing we

ask for is Lord do not subject us to the

final test lead us not into temptation

Lord protect me from my resistant

self there so much more we could say

read so many of the spiritual Masters as

they talk about the Lord's Prayer but

every step of it is opening up a a

window and a door to the spiritual life

next time you pray it whether it's the

Liturgy or just you know privately I'd

invite you to do it very slowly as you

do meditate on each of these phrases

you'll find the whole spiritual life is

displayed before you all right so Bishop

Baron provided an amazing exegesis of

the Lord's Prayer I just wanted to

highlight a little bit of my experience

with the Lord's Prayer so I grew up

Evangelical and when you grow up

Evangelical you are are offered an

unhistorical view of prayer prayer is

very subjective and adlib uh you get in

you know groups and in these groups if

you're led by the Holy Spirit you're

supposed to pray so there's a very very

unhistorical ad lib subjective element

of prayer and this is often contrast for

example when you're an Evangelical you

think of of Catholic lurgical prayer as

something that isn't Spirit-filled so

that's kind of the milu that I grew up

in however even in the midst of that

Evangelical ethos that I was existing in

about when I was 17 years old I made it

an emphasis to consistently recite the

Lord's Prayer both at in the morning and

at night now what's interesting is when

I look back on that I don't really know

why I started to do that it was probably

the Holy Spirit leading me home anyways

why I mention this is because I believe

during my 20s which I was a missionary

in my 20s in the Evangelical movement I

became a church planner I I was a

seminary grad bachelor's Masters even a

pastor within this you know I guess you

could say Evangelical movement but as I

reflect on my time during my 20s what

I've come to see is that the most

profound spiritual practice that I had

during that time was in the morning and

at night reciting the Lord's Prayer now

I mention it because there was so much

going on I was studying great

theological works during this time I was

participating in a you know a Christian

congregation I was evangelizing out in

the streets there's a big missional

element to the Evangelical movement so

it would have been normal for me to see

these things as spiritual disciplines

and also as very very they would have

been the things that was actually

producing spiritual fruit within me

however I realized that it was really

The Lord's Prayer during this time now

why this is so important is because I

think in our culture and in the world

where we're bombarded with new stuff all

the time and a consumeristic culture

it's very very easy to see something

like a lurgical repetition of the Lord's

Prayer as obsolete it can be seen as

inferior to pretty much anything else

that could produce a pragmatic result

now I think this is infiltrated into the

church for example we would see a simple

reciting of these most famous words as

inferior to Great re to reading the

great theological works or participating

in great ceremonies or rituals or

perhaps having a great impact in society

for example becoming a congressman and

ending abortion would be an example but

the older I get the more value I put on

simple lurgical

repetition of things like the Lord's

Prayer simple reflection and meditation

upon the great theological truths about

God when push comes to shove and your

life is coming near to the end all you

will have is the truth of what God has

taught you in the most simple

explanations the most simple ruminations

that you've had of him in your mind

that's why saying things like Our Father

who art in heaven Hallowed be your name

thy kingdom come thy will be done on

Earth as it is in heaven give us this

day our daily bread and forgive us our

sins as we forgive those who have sinned

against us and lead us not into

temptation but Deliver Us from the evil

one for thine is the Kingdom power and

the glory forever and ever amen and I

can take that with me wherever I go and

just as Bishop Baron taught us that we

should meditate upon that and kind of go

through it slowly we should also make a

consistent habit of reciting it out loud

and truly savoring and cherishing what

these words ultimately mean and what

they can produce in

us peace