How can people say "Father" to God if they have been tormented or abandoned by their earthly father/their earthly parents?
Human fathers and mothers often distort the image of a kind, fatherly God. Our Father in heaven, however, is not the same as our experiences of human parents. We must purify our image of God from all our own ideas so as to be able to encounter him with unconditional trust.
Even individuals who have been raped by their own father can learn to pray the Our Father. Often it is their task in life to allow themselves to experience a love that was cruelly refused them by others but that nevertheless exists in a marvelous way, beyond all human imagining. (YOUCAT question 516)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2779) and other references here.
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