What Was the First Prayer You Learned? Family Reflection Video

By: Father David Marcham on June 20th, 2019

What Was the First Prayer You Learned? Family Reflection Video

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

Reverend David S. Marcham is the Vice Postulator for the Cause of Venerable Patrick Peyton, and Director of the Father Peyton Guild, whose members pray for Father Peyton’s beatification and spread his message of the importance of Family Prayer. Prior to becoming a seminarian, Father David was a physical therapist and clinical instructor, serving hospital inpatients and outpatients throughout the greater Boston area for eleven years. In 1998 he heard the call to priesthood and was ordained in the Archdiocese of Boston in 2005. Father David grew up in Quincy, MA, and has fond memories of playing soccer, tennis and running track. You’re never without a friend when Father David is around, as he welcomes everyone into his circle with a smile on his face!