https://open.substack.com/pub/blairproductions32/p/music-for-native-american-history?r=98j2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#peace #peacepipe #chippewa #obijewa #nativeamerican #historymonth #noosinaan #thekinks #davedavies #thesmithereens #roverboys #americana #lordsprayer #psalms #smoke #robertmpowell #prairieprince #tapevault #chrisvonsneidern #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #hardrock #sanfrancisco

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#peace #peacepipe #chippewa #obijewa #nativeamerican #historymonth #noosinaan #thekinks #davedavies #thesmithereens #roverboys #americana #lordsprayer #psalms #smoke #robertmpowell #prairieprince #tapevault #chrisvonsneidern #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #hardrock #sanfrancisco

FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH—MY SONG OF THE WEEK: “Pipe of Peace (Noosinaan) – A Chippewa-Obijwe Song” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/pipe-of-peace-noosinaan-a-chippewa-obijwe-song

#peace #peacepipe #chippewa #obijewa #nativeamerican #historymonth #noosinaan #thekinks #davedavies #thesmithereens #roverboys #americana #lordsprayer #psalms #smoke #robertmpowell #prairieprince #tapevault #chrisvonsneidern #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #hardrock #sanfrancisco

The #Gospel reading for 26 September 2025 is Matthew 6:7-15. These are the verses in which #Jesus gives us the #LordsPrayer (A similar prayer is given in Luke 11:2-4 Even the #Bible has both traditional & contemporary versions!)

The Lord’s Prayer is familiar to most Christians. So familiar that we don’t always think about the words or pray it as intentionally as we should. Lately, I’ve been praying a mashup of both versions, just to keep me focused on what I am doing. I use sin (that which separates us from God) rather than trespass (ethical transgressions) and time of trial (persecution) rather than temptation. Although these are not big changes, they are just enough to throw the cadence of the prayer off when said in community, so I tend to whisper them under my breath so as not to disturb others. As yesterday’s gospel taught, I’m not doing it for show but because I want to be more mindful of how I’m praying. #DPB #Green How do you say the Lord’s Prayer & why do you say it that way?

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Today’s readings

Back when I was a seminarian intern, I had been visiting a parishioner at a local nursing home every week. I got to know her and her husband, and prayed with them often. One day, she was in the hospital, and I visited her there. Her husband told me she had been nonverbal: she hadn’t said anything for the last few days. So after talking a bit, we prayed – the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary. I had invited her to pray along in her heart as best she could. When we got to those prayers, she began to pray them softly with us, and her husband had some tears of joy. Me too.

I always say that we need to have a “prayer toolbox” for when times are difficult and we don’t know what to say or how to pray. And so it is glorious that Holy Mother Church has passed on some wonderful prayers, including the Lord’s Prayer, which he gave us in our Gospel this morning. When we don’t know what we are to pray or how to express our needs to God, these wonderful prayers do all that for us. Thanks be to God.

So it’s good if we learn our prayers early on in life. Because if we have grown up saying them, we will never lose them, and they will be a comfort to us in good times and bad, up to our dying breath. So when times are difficult, it’s freeing to say, “Thy will be done…” When we don’t know what’s best for us, it’s best to say, “Give us this day our daily bread…” When we feel crushed by our sins and ashamed of our past, it’s healing to say, “forgive us our trespasses…”

Today, let’s pray the Lord’s Prayer, as often as we pray it, with intention and attention. And let’s give thanks to Our Lord who entrusted these words to our hearts.

#LordSPrayer #Prayer

a glimpse of heaven
in the valley of lilies
when good shepherds pray

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Lily
#MastoPrompt - #shepherd

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-lords-prayer-christian-art-sharon-cummings.html

#prayer #prayers #lordsprayer #christian #christ #christianart #christians #christianity #jesus #jesuschrist #christ #bible #bibleverse #biblical #scripture #scriptures #art #faith #faithful #catholic #pope #catholicart #catholicism #catholics #newpope #SharonCummingsArt #thelordsprayer

Quote of the day, 16 April: St. Teresa of Avila

Give us this day our daily bread (Lk 11:3)

O eternal Lord! Why do You accept such a petition? Why do You consent to it? Don’t look at His love for us, because in exchange for doing Your will perfectly, and doing it for us, He allows Himself to be crushed to pieces each day. It is for You, my Lord, to look after Him, since He will let nothing deter Him.

Why must all our good come at His expense? Why does He remain silent before all and not know how to speak for Himself, but only for us?

Well, shouldn’t there be someone to speak for this most loving Lamb? [Allow me, Lord, to speak—since You have willed to leave Him to our power—and to beseech You since He so truly obeyed You and with so much love gave Himself to us].

I have noticed how in this petition alone He repeats the words: first He says and asks the Father to give us this daily bread, and then repeats, “give it to us this day, Lord,” invoking the Father again [dádnoslo hoy, Señor].

It’s as though Jesus tells the Father that He is now ours since the Father has given Him to us to die for us; and asks that the Father not take Him from us until the end of the world; that He allow Him to serve each day. May this move your hearts, my daughters, to love your Spouse, for there is no slave who would willingly say he is a slave, and yet it seems that Jesus is honored to be one.

O Eternal Father! How much this humility deserves! What treasure do we have that could buy Your Son? The sale of Him, we already know, was for thirty pieces of silver [Mt 26:15]. But to buy Him, no price is sufficient.

Since by sharing in our nature, He has become one with us here below—and as Lord of His own will—He reminds the Father that because He belongs to Him, the Father in turn can give Him to us. And so He says, “our bread.”

He doesn’t make any difference between Himself and us, but we make one by not giving ourselves up each day for His Majesty.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 33, nos. 4–5

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Judas Goes to Find the Jews (Judas va trouver les Juifs) was executed in opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper by artist James Tissot, (French, 1836-1902) during the years 1886-1894 as he created his famed series The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ). So many of these well-known artworks are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York and are available for download online with no known copyright restrictions.

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
On this day of betrayal, how are you moved by the Lord’s silence and His daily self-gift?
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#bread #giving #humility #incarnation #JesusChrist #LordSPrayer #silence #StTeresaOfAvila