1.    The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect prayer. In it, we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired.

Through the Lord’s Prayer, we act as one Christian community who are called to follow Christ, called to be detached from the different worldly calls and a commitment to follow Him in His saving mission, within His, the Church.

1.    The Blessed Virgin Mary, the “handmaid of the Lord” and the model of perfect disciple, can be seen as perfect solidarity with Christ’s mission even to the cross.

Praying to our Father does not develop in us the will to become like Him and foster in us a humble and trusting heart that involves acts of faith, hope and charity.

Peace is the absence of conflict. When we learn to live peace, we become peacemakers.

Earthly peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ, the messianic “Prince of Peace” and by the blood of His Cross He has declared: “Blessed are the Peacemakers”.

The sign of peace in the Roman Rite significantly placed before Eucharistic communion is a gesture which the faithful are invited to make as a sign of the People of God’s acceptance of all that has been done in the celebration and of the commitment to share the one bread.

In the Philippines, it has been prescribed that the sign of peace be given by slightly bowing the head toward the people being greeted, with the hands joined before the breast. The greeting is, Peace be with you; and the answer, And also with you.

The Lord’s Prayer is not an invitation for us to follow Jesus.

We must always aim at those things that bring peace and strengthen one another.

 If there is peace and love in the hearts of men and women, we can all promote harmony and unity in the family, in the community and even in every part of the world we live in.

St. Elizabeth of Portugal earned the peacemaker on account of her ability to solve conflicts.

 Among her many success, was the resolution of conflict between the King- her husband – and a rebellious patriot reformer who rose in arms against him.

The feast if St. Elizabeth of Portugal is every 5^th of July.

 In the Eucharistic liturgy, the Lord’s Prayer is not the prayer of the whole Church.