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In both Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels, Jesus teaches the disciples and us to pray the Our Father. It is a model of prayer and one of the first prayers that we learn as children. Too often, though, we can miss the richness of the second word, “Father.”
“Why do so many men have no real friends?” asked a recent essay in the U.K. Times. The essay begins with the experience of 34-year-old Max Dickens, who said,