Our Father who art… wait
What?
Our?
Who is this “Our?” Who am I signing up with?
There was this angry Catholic / Protestant / Orthodox / Evangelical / Anglican / (fill in the blank) so certain that those who weren’t on his (her?) way were headed for Hell, with or without a handbasket.
Is that person included in “Our?”
And that mainline leader whose theology is so amorphous that it echoes as “the bland leading the bland.” Is that person included when I pray Our?
That comfortable prayer, whether in the Daily Office or my formerly safe Anglican rosary, that prayer disturbs me.
And what might the others in the Our have to say about me?
I so greatly fear that if I won’t admit all those to Our, there may not be room for me either.
And the prayer is only just beginning.
The Apprentice Priest 