“Lord, teach us to pray.” - Luke 11:1

Today, begin with a prayer asking the Lord to bring you to himself in prayer, and asking God to teach us as a church community to pray!

Let us begin with humility, acknowledging that we have much to learn in the way of prayer. An ancient motto of the Benedictines says “Always we begin again.” And so it is: even as we build a habit of prayer, we never master it. We submit to it, or rather in prayer we continually submit ourselves to God. That work is never done, so we always come back, as though we were just beginning, and say, “Lord, teach me as you will.” And…he does.

Lord, teach us to pray!