On 21st December we gave a day of recollection for women. 22 women attended. The day included talks, Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and opportunity for confession. If you are interested in attending such a day and live near enough to Cambridge (UK!) then do be in touch. The next one planned will be in Lent. The following talk was the third of three.

On 21st December we gave a day of recollection for women.  22 women attended.  The day included talks, Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and opportunity for confession.  If you are interested in attending such a day and live near enough to Cambridge (UK!) then do be in touch.  The next one planned will be in Lent. The following talk was the second of three.

We began this series on the Lord’s Prayer as found in the Gospel of Matthew 6:9-13 back in the spring, and then took a break for the summer holidays, so since it has been a while, I will first begin with a brief overview of this prayer, focusing on the Seven Petitions in it, based on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, and then I will focus more specifically on the verse, “Hallowed be Thy Name.”

CEPHAS seeks to contribute to the renewal of philosophy and Christian theology in the UK through close study, in particular, of St Thomas Aquinas.CEPHAS 2024 will be an opportunity to engage in ‘the most important conversation we should be having’ about ‘the future of AI’.

Last time when we were discussing the first words of the Lord’s prayer, ‘Our Father,’  a gentleman from Hong Kong told us that the Chinese translation of the prayer began with ‘Heavenly Father’ and did not divide off the ‘being in heaven’ into a separate clause.  When talking about this later with others I found an interesting divergence of opinion.  Some thought that calling God our ‘heavenly father’ drew Him closer to us, as not being in a remote place ‘heaven.’