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Jul 2025
15m 18s

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
About this episode
Friends, we have the great privilege this week of reading, in our Gospel, Luke’s account of the Lord’s Prayer. This is a very sacred moment: Jesus himself—not just a spiritual guru or someone we admire, but the very Son of God—teaches us how to pray. And we become so familiar with the Our Father that we forget its spiritual power. 
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