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Revision as of 19:51, 29 October 2019
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.