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What Was the First Prayer You Learned? Family Reflection Video

What Was the First Prayer You Learned? Family Reflection Video

Why pray?

I think my parents taught us the Hail Mary first and then the Our Father.

Those first two words of the Our Father made the greatest impression on my young mind. Calling on God as “Our Father” gave a sense that God wasn’t some kind of imaginary character from my bedtime stories, but as real as my parents who taught me the prayer.

In a way, St. Paul is trying to get the Corinthians and us to realize that our relationship with Jesus is just as real as the families we have next to us every day. Jesus worries we will be led astray, as our parents do, so he tells us that God already knows what we need, and will provide for it.

What have you realized from your prayers?

About Father David Marcham

Father David S. Marcham is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and serves as Vice Postulator and Guild Director of the Cause for Canonization of Venerable Patrick Peyton. Before entering St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, he worked for eleven years as a physical therapist in Boston-area hospitals. Ordained in 2005, Father David was assigned to St. Mary Parish in Franklin, Massachusetts. His involvement in Father Peyton’s Cause began in 2007, when he assisted Father George Lucas, C.S.C., in advancing the Cause for Canonization. Appointed Vice Postulator in 2009, Father David oversees the progress of the Cause, directs the Guild, and promotes devotion to Father Peyton’s legacy of family prayer.