Latest / Treasures of Our Faith with Deacon Richard Vehige
Prayer should be expressed in deeds as well as words
On Saturday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time our Church invites us to reflect on a Scripture passage from the book of Judges (16:4-6, 16-31), entitled "The treachery of Delilah and the death of Samson". Our treasure, which follows, is from a treatise on the Lord's Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr.
Saint Cyprian's Treatise on the Lord's Prayer written around A.D. 252, is one of the earliest and most influential explanations of the Our Father in Christian history. In it, Cyprian teaches that Jesus Himself gave us the perfect prayer, containing everything necessary for our…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.