VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that just as Jesus prayed for his friends while on earth, he also prays for each person eternally before the Father in heaven. “We must always keep this in ...

The model prayer, often called the Lord's Prayer, appears in two places in the Bible — Matthew 6:9-13, part of the Sermon on ...

Father James Dominic Brent, OP looks into the significance of the prayer in the context of Lent and the mystery of the Holy ...

When Jesus begins the prayer that has come to be called the Lord’s Prayer with the words “Our Father” (Matt. 6:9), who is included in his “our”? In the history of the prayer’s interpretation, “our” ...

Jesus tells his disciples that they are the salt of the earth and light of the world, in order that others “may see your good ...

I wanted to know just how many of Jesus’ prayers did the writers of the Gospels record in their narratives of Jesus’ ministry. So, I turned to the computer which gave me a total of six prayers ...

There is no better teacher or witness to prayer than Jesus Christ. This point is emphasized throughout the written gospels. The evangelists want to reveal to us that the Lord was a man of deep prayer ...

When praying, remember the words of Jesus when he taught the 'Our Father,' Pope Francis said Wednesday, meeting God as his beloved child and speaking from the heart. Some think that to pray is to use ...

According to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, so begins the prayer that Jesus taught us. Not only was Ms. Eddy’s use of “Father-Mother” well ahead of 19th-century gender politics, ...

In the struggle to pray, we do not rely on our own strength. We turn to the Lord Jesus. We unite our prayers to his. It is only in the love of Jesus Christ that our prayers become efficacious in the ...