Asking the Father: A Study of the Prayer of Petition Gabriel Daly O.S.A

Asking the Father: A Study of the Prayer of Petition

Author: Gabriel Daly O.S.A
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Asking the Father tries to come to grips with some of the questions and difficulties which can arise for critically minded believers when they stop to ask what they are doing when they ask God for favours.

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Asking the Father tries to come to grips with some of the questions and difficulties which can arise for critically minded believers when they stop to ask what they are doing when they ask God for favours. Prayer of Petition is a remarkably effective test of our attitude to God. What, for example, would be the point of subscribing to a sound of understanding of the God revealed in Jesus Christ, if in prayer we were approaching God, unconsciously perhaps, as a capricious tyrant? Reflection on petitionary prayer confronts us eventually with the dark mystery of pain and suffering. We are called upon to affirm the presence and care of a loving Father at the heart of a tear-soaked world. Constant meditation on this awesome theme will help to prevent our prayer from degenerating into sentimentality or dependence upon the unpredictabilities of a passing religious euphoria. Equally important is the conviction that at the heart of a suffering world there is a God who is revealed as infinitely more than an omnipotent creator. Christian prayer begins from a consciousness of the fatherhood of God and has its model in the prayer which Jesus gave his friends.   About the Author Gabriel Daly OSA, has made the study and teaching his life's work - especially in the Milltown Institute, the Irish School of Ecumenics, and Trinity College Dublin. Gabriel is also the author of the very well reviewed The Church: Always in Need of Reform.

Asking the Father tries to come to grips with some of the questions and difficulties which can arise for critically minded believers when they stop to ask what they are doing when they ask God for favours.

Prayer of Petition is a remarkably effective test of our attitude to God. What, for example, would be the point of subscribing to a sound of understanding of the God revealed in Jesus Christ, if in prayer we were approaching God, unconsciously perhaps, as a capricious tyrant?

Reflection on petitionary prayer confronts us eventually with the dark mystery of pain and suffering. We are called upon to affirm the presence and care of a loving Father at the heart of a tear-soaked world. Constant meditation on this awesome theme will help to prevent our prayer from degenerating into sentimentality or dependence upon the unpredictabilities of a passing religious euphoria.

Equally important is the conviction that at the heart of a suffering world there is a God who is revealed as infinitely more than an omnipotent creator. Christian prayer begins from a consciousness of the fatherhood of God and has its model in the prayer which Jesus gave his friends.

 

About the Author

Gabriel Daly OSA, has made the study and teaching his life's work - especially in the Milltown Institute, the Irish School of Ecumenics, and Trinity College Dublin. Gabriel is also the author of the very well reviewed The Church: Always in Need of Reform.

Asking the Father tries to come to grips with some of the questions and difficulties which can arise for critically minded believers when they stop to ask what they are doing when they ask God for favours.

Prayer of Petition is a remarkably effective test of our attitude to God. What, for example, would be the point of subscribing to a sound of understanding of the God revealed in Jesus Christ, if in prayer we were approaching God, unconsciously perhaps, as a capricious tyrant?

Reflection on petitionary prayer confronts us eventually with the dark mystery of pain and suffering. We are called upon to affirm the presence and care of a loving Father at the heart of a tear-soaked world. Constant meditation on this awesome theme will help to prevent our prayer from degenerating into sentimentality or dependence upon the unpredictabilities of a passing religious euphoria.

Equally important is the conviction that at the heart of a suffering world there is a God who is revealed as infinitely more than an omnipotent creator. Christian prayer begins from a consciousness of the fatherhood of God and has its model in the prayer which Jesus gave his friends.

 

About the Author

Gabriel Daly OSA, has made the study and teaching his life's work - especially in the Milltown Institute, the Irish School of Ecumenics, and Trinity College Dublin. Gabriel is also the author of the very well reviewed The Church: Always in Need of Reform.