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The Our Father

The Most Perfect Prayer

  • The Our Father is the most beautiful prayer made and is given to us by Jesus Himself.
  • Each word and each thought are chosen by Jesus’ infinite wisdom and love.
  • Each word and each thought are a source of mercy and grace.
  • Each part is an act of perfect love, of the highest value, and of greatest merit.
    • This is the key to open His treasures.
    • It contains everything that we want to pray for.
  • It shows the best & right way to pray: first glorifying God then asking for our needs.

“Our Father”

  • The most consoling words in the human language.
  • God of infinite love and affection assures us that He is our Father in the truest, most affectionate, and most intimate sense of the words.
  • He commands us to treat Him the same as how the most confiding child treats his loving father.
  • He does not merely ask for adoration or veneration; He wants our real, affectionate and confiding love.

“Who art in heaven”

  • When we say God is in Heaven, we want to point out the true fact that:
    • God is beyond and above all things.
  • It describes:
    • The majesty and holiness of God.
    • God is present in the hearts of the righteous.

“Hallowed be Thy Name”

  • These are words of glorification, saying God is the Holy One.
    • This speaks to the request in the sacrament of Baptism, which is for the sanctification of God to enliven our lives.
    • In what ways does our life and prayers glorify God, where others recognize Him and celebrate Him?

“Thy Kingdom comes”

  • Pray that the kingship of God grows through the sanctification of man and woman in the Holy Spirit.

“Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven”

  • The Father’s will is for “all to be saved.”
    • Jesus came down from Heaven to fulfill the Father’s plan of salvation.
    • We pray that His merciful love is fulfilled.

“Give us this day our daily bread”

  • We recognize that God is great, beyond all that is good.
  • We ask God to give us daily sustenance to live, and if we are blessed with extra that we help those who are in need.
  • We pray that we hunger for the word of God and the Holy Eucharist, as well as hunger for the Holy Spirit.

“And forgive us our trespasses”

  • Recognize that we are sinners.
  • Proclaim the Father’s mercy through His Son and through the sacraments.

“As we forgive those who trespass against us”

  • Mercy can only enter our soul if we ourselves forgive our enemies.
  • Forgiveness is the participation in God’s mercy and is the pinnacle of Christian prayer.

“And lead us not into temptation”

  • Temptation leads to sin and death. We:
    • Pray that we do not become vulnerable to the power of temptation,
    • Pray that we do not follow temptation,
    • Pray that we unite with Jesus, who overcame temptation through prayer,
    • As we face these challenges, we pray for help to grow in goodness, and
    • Pray that we are on guard and persevere to the end.

“But deliver us from evil”

  • We pray that the entire human family is free of Satan, and his malice and snares.
  • We pray for the gift of grace, where peace and blessings help us to persevere until Christ comes again to liberate us from evil.

“Amen”

  • We ask that God works through us.
  • We are determined to accept all that God teaches us in this prayer.

The Hail Mary

The Hail Mary

  • The wondrous message of the Most Holy Trinity delivered by the archangel to Mary.
  • The words of the prayer are most beautiful and most simple.
  • St. Jerome: “The words of the Hail Mary are so sublime that no human intelligence is capable of adequately explaining them.”

Bible’s Source

  • Angel’s greeting: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee…”
  • Elizabeth words inspired by the Holy Spirit: “Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.”

We render to God the highest praise and return Him most gracious thanks, because He has bestowed all His heavenly gifts on the most holy Virgin.

Catechism’s Source

  • St. Petrus Canisius in his Catechism in 1555 and the Catechism of the Council of Trent in 1566 added: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.”
  • The Church also added: “Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”

We should earnestly implore Mother Mary’s help and assistance; for that she possesses exalted merits with God, and that she is most desirous to assist us by her prayers.

The Last Four Things

  • Death: everyone dies (in grace or in mortal sin)
  • Judgment: reward or punishment (even for very little things)
    • Saved: belong to God; or
    • Damned: belong to devil
  • Heaven: eternal reward (nothing is happier)
  • Hell: eternal punishment (nothing is more miserable)

Two Important Moments of Life

  • The present moment (the most precious time)
  • The hour of death (the most important time)
    • “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”

Every time we say the Hail Mary, we pray for a happy death (to die in grace).

Intention of the three Hail Mary in the Morning

  • We ask for the three theological virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love.
  • We also ask Mary for the virtue of Chastity.

Intention of the three Hail Mary at Night

  • We ask for the reparation of sins: of ourselves, of our relatives, and of the whole world.

The Glory Be

A Doxology

  • The Glory Be is technically called a doxology, a short expression of praise to God.
  • In this doxology,
    • We are saying, “Wow, God you are glorious,” and you are the true meaning of all that is good and perfect.
    • We are acknowledging that God is worthy of all our worship, praise, and thanksgiving.

A Prayer

  • The Glory Be is an ancient, short prayer that is meant to praise and give glory to each of the three persons of the Trinity.
  • In addition to giving praise to God’s glory, the prayer emphasizes Jesus’ divinity by including the words “and to the Son.”

An Affirmation Against Heresy

  • It is also meant as an affirmation against heresy.
    • The early Church developed to combat Arianism and other teachings against the nature of God and the Trinity.
    • We are extending our praise to Jesus who is true God and true man. He was made of flesh and blood like us, but unlike us, He is divine.

“Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit”

  • This first line summarizes the mystery of our faith:
    • God who is the Father;
    • Jesus, the Son of God who became human and lived among us to die for our sins; and
    • The Holy Spirit who dwells within all of us.

“As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be...”

  • The “it” is referring to God, His teachings, His words, and His promises.
  • We are stating our belief that all that Jesus professed and promised is as true and relevant
    • Today
    • As it was in the beginning
    • It also emphasizes the eternal existence of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

“World without end”

  • A newer translation of the original Latin version eliminates the words “and ever shall be, world without end,” and replaces them with “and will be forever.
  • Here, we are not talking about our time on Earth; rather we are stressing our belief that God’s Kingdom in Heaven never ends.