Thinking of something Lewis wrote…

…about prayer: that God, who is outside of and beyond all time, has all of our history spread before Him “at once”, and He has no problem answering a prayer that we offer today some two weeks or even two decades ago. 

This led me to ponder the nature of the Our Father. It occurred to me that all of Christendom is praying these seven petitions for all of Christendom. 

We are praying them today, but also praying them for the saints who have gone before us, for those who journey with us now, and for those who may yet come later. Wherever the others may find themselves in the “space time continuum” they are within the embrace of the Church’s unceasing Our Father. Truly, that “our” embraces the entirety of Christ’s people on pilgrimage. I find it a very comforting thought that prayers offered centuries before, even, are coming to fulfillment in my little life here in the 21st century.