LIVE IT TODAY: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
You are My beloved child. You were made to live in conversation with Me—moment by moment, heart to heart.
LIVE IT TODAY: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
You are My beloved child. You were made to live in conversation with Me—moment by moment, heart to heart.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 11:1-4
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples said to him,
“Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”
He said to them, “When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test.”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
Prayer is not performance—it is participation in the heartbeat of God.
The disciples had watched Jesus preach, heal, and cast out demons—but what moved them to ask for instruction was His prayer. Something about the way He prayed revealed His identity and intimacy with the Father. They didn’t ask, “Teach us what to say,” but “Teach us to pray.” They sensed that prayer was not technique, but relationship.
Jesus’ response begins not with “O God,” but “Father.” In Greek, pater translates the Aramaic abba—an intimate, familial word, like “Dad” or “Papa.” The God of the universe invites us into the same closeness shared between the Father and the Son. Everything in the Christian life flows from this: we are not slaves reciting lines to a master, but children speaking to our Father who loves us.
This prayer is the Gospel in miniature. Your Kingdom come—a daily surrender of our kingdoms, our control, our need to be right. Give us our daily bread—a confession that we live from His hand, not our own. Forgive us… as we forgive—a mirror held up to the soul, reminding us that mercy received must become mercy given.
In family life, the Lord’s Prayer is the great equalizer. It pulls every generation to its knees—parents, children, grandparents alike—acknowledging that we are all beggars before grace. The Enemy whispers that prayer is pointless, mechanical, or too late. But the truth is the opposite: prayer is the lifeblood of love. It doesn’t begin with eloquence, but honesty. It isn’t about getting God’s attention—it’s about letting Him have ours.
The home that prays together begins to sound like heaven. When fathers and mothers pray aloud, when children hear their names lifted before the Father, when forgiveness is spoken before bedtime—walls fall, and hearts open.
Parents, make your home a school of prayer. Begin and end the day with the words Jesus gave you. And pray over your children by name, asking the Spirit to awaken their hearts to know God as Father—to love, to trust, and to live in continual conversation with Him.
“Prayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit.” (CCC 2565)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Teach Us to Pray: What holds you back from praying with greater honesty and trust?
Kingdom Come: In what area of your life are you resisting the Father’s will?
Bread and Forgiveness: How can your family practice daily dependence and mercy toward one another?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, pray the Our Father slowly—pausing after each phrase to share what it means to you.
Afterward, each family member should pray over another by name: Heavenly Father, pour out Your grace so that [Name] may know You intimately as Father. Free [Name] from the lie that they must earn Your love. Strengthen [Name] to trust Your care, to forgive freely, and to walk daily in communion with You.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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