Jesus’ prayer is incomparable: it is his intimate oneness with the Father. Yet Jesus’ prayer should become our prayer, because his Father becomes our Father, because through Jesus we receive the Spirit “who makes us children of God”. In the New Testament, consequently, there is a new kind of prayer, different from and greater than all the longing of the human heart that finds expression in the prayer of all religions. This new prayer, which the Holy Spirit
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