Son’3” (CCC 2779). We cannot improve on this word for God, for “Father” is the name Jesus used consistently, and Jesus the “Word of God” knew the right word for God! Jesus called God our Father because he made God our Father. Without him, God is not our Father. He radically changed our relationship with God: he made us children of God and thus made God our Father. (Of course, he did not change God, he changed us.) And the word is not just “Father” but “Abba”—the intimate word “Daddy”. Jesus restored the
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