BELIEVERS VOICE OF ALL NATIONS

The Our Father Prayer Previous Page: Traditional Prayer The words to The Our Father Prayer are as follows: The Our Father Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Where does the Prayer to Our Father appear in the Bible? Is the Our Father a biblical prayer? Yes, it is for the most part. But see the note below about the Doxology. The Our Father Prayer appears in the Gospels of Matthew 6:9 and Luke 11:2. in the Bible. Mark 11:25 does not give the complete prayer, but it does include a similar section explaining the importance of forgiveness: “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Fath

THE MEANING OF THE “OUR FATHER” LINE BY LINE 21 Dec “The Lord’s Prayer [the ‘Our Father’] is the most perfect of prayers… In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them” (Thomas Aquinas, cf. CCC 2763). OUR FATHER: We can invoke God as “Father” because he is revealed to us by his Son. When we pray the Our Father we personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; we recognise that all his promises of love are fulfilled in the new and eternal covenant in Jesus Christ. We have become his people and he is henceforth our God (cf CCC 2780, 2787, 2789). WHO ART IN HEAVEN: Heaven does not refer to a place but to God’s majesty and his presence in the hearts of the just. Heaven, the Father’s house, is the true homeland towards which we are heading and to which