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This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another
hunger from which men are perishing: “Man does not live by bread alone,
but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,”123
that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians
must make every effort “to proclaim the good news to the poor.” There
is a famine on earth, “not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD.”124 For this reason the
specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of
Life: the Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the
Eucharist.125
- SECTION TWO THE LORD’S PRAYER
- Article 3 THE SEVEN PETITIONS
- IV. “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
- Article 3 THE SEVEN PETITIONS
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PAA.HTM
