CCC 2834
Christian Prayer›SECTION TWO THE LORD'S PRAYER›Article 3 THE SEVEN PETITIONS›IV. "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
"Pray and work." "Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you." Even when we have done our work, the food we receive is still a gift from our Father; it is good to ask him for it with thanksgiving, as Christian families do when saying grace at meals.
Footnotes
- Cf. St. Benedict Regula, 20, 48.
- Attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola, cf. Joseph de Guibert, SJ, The Jesuits: Their Spiritual Doctrine and Practice, (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1964), 148, n. 55.