When you pray, say, “Our Father in heaven …” With these words Jesus introduced his disciples to a whole new dimension of prayer. Not that they did not already know how to pray—even though we might think that from their question, “Lord, teach us to pray” (Lk 11:1). The faith of Israel was a praying faith, and the disciples of Jesus belonged to a people for whom the prayers and praises of the Psalms were woven into the fabric of their daily lives as much as their everyday food (which never