# Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time - Learning to Pray Rightly

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Podcast: [Catholic Daily Reflections](https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-daily-reflections-334651)
Published: 2026-06-17T09:00:19+00:00
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Read Online Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” Matthew 6:7–9 Many pagans of Jesus’ time believed they could manipulate divine action by sheer persistence, lengthy incantations, or empty repetition. Jesus contrasts this with true prayer, which is about trust in the Father’s providence, not coercion. Christian prayer is not about forcing God’s hand but about uniting our hearts to His will. Saint Thomas Aquinas offers profound insight into the Lord’s Prayer: “Since prayer is the expression of our desires before God, we should only ask for what we ought to desire. The Lord’s Prayer not only contains everything we should desire, but it presents them in the proper order—thus shaping not only our petitions but also our hearts” ( Summa Theologiae , II-II, 83.9). According to Saint Thomas, prayer begins with truth entering the mind. Before we can choose and desire what is good, we must first recognize what is truly good in the eyes of God. For that reason, the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer focus on God’s glory—the highest good—rather than our needs: “Hallowed be Thy name” expresses the desire that God’s holiness be recognized, honored, and made known both within us and through our witness in the world. “Thy Kingdom come” is a plea for God’s reign to be established in our hearts and ultimately in the fulfillment of His Kingdom at the end of time. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” is a petition that our wills be conformed only to God’s divine will, seeking to obey Him as the saints and angels do in Hea…

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