That will thus become the moment when we are finally able to pray the essentially Christian prayer. The distinction of being the earliest prayer in the gospels, I repeat, was not the Lord’s Prayer, but the prayer “Come, Lord Jesus!” Come and establish the realm of God in each one of us. Show us what it means to live, not for our survival, but for a higher purpose, for that will be the moment in which we will finally learn that to be human and to be Christian are one and the same thing.
