The Lords Prayer

PRAYER OF JESUS
WHAT IS A PRAYER?
• Prayer is the opening of one's heart and soul in

a conversation with God.
• It is an expression of faith in a relationship with

God.
WHY DO WE NEED TO PRAYER?
• Jesus himself prayed often, as noted in the Gospel of Luke:

• before his Baptism (3:21)
• after healing the sick (5:16)
• before choosing the Twelve Apostles (6:12)
• before the Confession of Peter (9:18)
• the Transfiguration (9:28)
• before the giving of the Lord's Prayer (11:1)
• in the Garden of Gethsemane (22:40-42)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
• The Lord’s Prayer is a venerated Christian prayer

which, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught
as the way to pray:
Pray then in this way ... (Matthew 6:9 NRSV)
When you pray, say ... (Luke 11:2 NRSV)
• 1.) A longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in
the Gospel of Matthew.
• 2.) A shorter form in the Gospel of Luke when "one of

his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as
John taught his disciples.'" Lutheran theologian
Harold Buls suggested that both were original, the
Matthaen version spoken by Jesus early in his ministry in
Galilee, and the Lucan version one year later in Judea.
TWO VERSIONS
• Matthew 6:9-13
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.
• Luke 11:2-4
Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us
each day our daily bread; and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves
forgive everyone who is indebted to us; and lead us not into
temptation
THE LORD’S PRAYER
• The first three of the seven petitions in Matthew

address God.
• The other four are related to human needs and
concerns.
• The prayer is used by most Christian churches in
their worship; with few exceptions,
the liturgical form is the Matthean.
• According to the CFC the “Our Father” can be grounded
on three basic characteristics:
• 1. As the prayer of Christ the Lord who is in himself

the fulfillment of the Old Testament Law, Prophets
and Psalms and the core of the whole New
Testament, the “Our Father” is at the “center of the
Scriptures”
• 2. The Lord’s Prayer taught by Christ is his own personal
prayer to the Father. It is clearly Trinitarian. It is the prayer
of the Son, to the Father, in the Spirit.
• 3. It is the prayer of the Church rooted in the Church’s

liturgy from the beginning, especially in the Sacraments of
Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist.
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN
• Our Father: God is "our" Father, the Father not only of Christ
but of all of us. We pray to Him as brothers and sisters to Christ,
and to one another.
• Through BAPTISM we are adopted as Children of God. In Baptism
we actually become adopted sons/daughters of the Father by our
rebirth to new divine life through the HOLY SPIRIT.
• Two Fundamental dispositions:
• The desire to become like Him
• A humble and trusting heart
• CFC:2134. Revealed in Jesus Christ. This hope was
brought to perfect fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Through Jesus, a whole new closeness and intimacy
with God appears, expressed in his “Abba”. As “the
only Son, ever at the Father’s side” (Jn 1:18).
• Who art in Heaven: God is in Heaven, but that
does not mean that He is distant from us. He is
exalted above all of Creation, but He is also present
throughout Creation. Our true home is with Him.
• Our Father represents the climax of God’s Self-
Revelation and the primary goal of our
response in FAITH.
HALLOWED BE THY NAME
• “hallow” means to make holy.

• Petition to God the Father.
• "of all good things the most important for me is that
God's name should be glorified in my life.“ –St.
Gregory of Nyssa
• If we live well, the divine name is blessed; but if we live
badly it is blasphemed -St. Peter Chrysologus
• Jesus perfectly exemplified this petition. In his life
and death, he brought together two basic ideas: 1.)
the Father glorifies His own Name but 2.)second,
He does this in and through Christ, His Son, and us,
Christ’s disciples.
• In Jesus prayer, it is clear that the Father is to be
glorified not only in words but also in deeds.
•Two fold dimension of Holiness:
•1.)God’s being, His “total Otherness”… God is
different from all created realities.
•2.) Ethical dimension wherein God is “shown
holy by His justice”
• God calls us to share in His “Holy Being” by a life of
grace, offered to everyone by the Risen Christ and
the Holy Spirit. Through this life of grace we achieve
our ultimate destiny, God Himself. He calls us to
share in His ethical holiness by living a good life,
empowered by the Spirit. (cf. CFC 2145)
THY KINGDOM COME
•The kingdom of God is His reign over all

mankind. It is not simply the objective fact that
God is our king, but also our acknowledgment
of His reign. We look forward to the coming of
His kingdom at the end of time, but we also
work toward it today by living our lives as He
wishes us to live them.
•The Kingdom of God is brought near in the
Word Incarnate, and it has come in the
Paschal Mystery of Christ - his Passion,
death, Resurrection, and Glorious Ascension.
The Kingdom of God is in our midst in the
Eucharist. "Thy kingdom come" in the Lord's
Prayer refers primarily to the final coming of
the reign of God through Christ's return.
THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS
IT IS IN HEAVEN
• What actually is God’s will?

• Most of us we probably never stop to think much about
it. We just take for granted that what God’s will is good,
but perhaps often not directly relevant to what we are
doing day-by-day.
• “I always do what pleases Him” –Jn.8:29
•But what does the Father actually will?
• Christ summarizes all other commandments in his
own;“Love another as I have loved you” –Jn. 13:34
• “doing good”
•We work toward the coming of the kingdom of
God by conforming our lives to His will. With
these words, we petition God to help us know
and carry out His will in this life, and for all
mankind to do so as well.
• When we say thy will be done, we ask that God's will
be done within us, to offset our weak nature, a
nature given to concupiscence(strong desire).
• We ask for God's loving plan to be fully realized on
earth as it already is in heaven. Through prayer we
can discern what is the will of God and obtain the
endurance to do it.
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY
BREAD
• Our work of growing, producing, distributing food,

depends ultimately on nature and the life given us
and sustained by our Creator.
• “Bread”- the symbol for all human food. The food
necessary to sustain our human life, “the bread of
life”.
• With these words, we petition God to provide us
with everything that we need.
• "Our daily bread" is that which is essential for
everyday life.
• The Catholic Church has always seen "our daily
bread" as a reference not only to everyday food but
to the Bread of Life, the Eucharist—Christ's own
Body, present to us in Holy Communion.
• “Bread of life” – the specific Christian meaning of
this is understood as both Word of God received in
faith, and the Body of the Lord received in the
Eucharist.
• Our petition for daily bread is made with the Son,
around his earthly table, the altar.
AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE
FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST
US.
• Act before God responds.

• We have asked Him already to help us know His will
and to do it; here, we ask Him to forgive us our
sins—but only after we have forgiven the sins of
others against us.
• We beg God to show us mercy, not because we deserve
it but rather because we do not; but we must first show
mercy toward others, especially when we think that they
do not deserve it.
• To forgive involves more than simply not holding a

grudge against some offender or not plotting some
revenge. Rather, it means setting the offenders free,
releasing them from all obligation, re-establishing broken
relationships.
AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION,
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
• Here, knowledge of the Greek word translated into

English as "lead" is helpful. As the Catechism of the
Catholic Church notes, "the Greek means both 'do not
allow us to enter into temptation' and 'do not let us yield
to temptation.’”
• The "evil" here is not just bad things; in the Greek, it is
"the evil one"—that is, Satan himself, the one who tempts
us.
• God does not want us to be tempted, but rather to
liberate us from temptation.
• Temptation- enticement of the devil, seduction to
sin and death.
• “ being tempted” and “consenting to temptation”
HOW DOES JESUS REVEALED
HIMSELF IN PRAYER?
•He revealed himself as a Son.

•Why did He pray? Because He always goes
back to their intimate relationship of the Father.
His life is prayer. His life is a relationship with
his Father.
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
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PRAYER OF JESUS

• Prayer is the opening of one's heart and soul in

• It is an expression of faith in a relationship with

• Jesus himself prayed often, as noted in the Gospel of Luke:

• The Lord’s Prayer is a venerated Christian prayer

• 2.) A shorter form in the Gospel of Luke when "one of

• The first three of the seven petitions in Matthew

• 1. As the prayer of Christ the Lord who is in himself

• 3. It is the prayer of the Church rooted in the Church’s

• “hallow” means to make holy.

•The kingdom of God is His reign over all

• What actually is God’s will?

• Our work of growing, producing, distributing food,

• Act before God responds.

• To forgive involves more than simply not holding a

• Here, knowledge of the Greek word translated into

•He revealed himself as a Son.

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