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The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 1, 2015, 11:02 am
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What follows in following posts is the Lord's Prayer explained
in great detail. Below is an outline, and every line is a link
you can click on. Subsequent posts will be based on that
outline. This will go one for quite a while, and please feel
free to comment as the thread progresses.
SECTION TWO: THE LORD'S PRAYER: "OUR FATHER!"
HTML http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s2.htm
ARTICLE 1: "THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL"
HTML http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s2a1.htm
I. At the Center of the Scriptures
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II. "The Lord's Prayer"
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III. The Prayer of the Church
HTML http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s2a1.htm#III
IN BRIEF
HTML http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s2a1.htm#brief
ARTICLE 2: "OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN"
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I. "We Dare to Say"
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II. "Father!"
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III. "Our" Father
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IV. "Who Art in Heaven"
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IN BRIEF
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ARTICLE 3: "THE SEVEN PETITIONS"
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I. "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
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II. "Thy Kingdom Come"
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III. "The Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven"
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IV. "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
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V. "And Forgive us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those
Who Trespass against Us"
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VI. "And Lead Us Not into Temptation"
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VII. "But Deliver Us From Evil"
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ARTICLE 4: THE FINAL DOXOLOGY
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IN BRIEF
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 1, 2015, 11:05 am
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SECTION TWO: THE LORD'S PRAYER: "OUR FATHER!"
2759 Jesus "was praying at a certain place, and when he ceased,
one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as
John taught his disciples.'"1 In response to this request the
Lord entrusts to his disciples and to his Church the fundamental
Christian prayer. St. Luke presents a brief text of five
petitions,2 while St. Matthew gives a more developed version of
seven petitions.3 The liturgical tradition of the Church has
retained St. Matthew's text:
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.
2760 Very early on, liturgical usage concluded the Lord's Prayer
with a doxology. In the Didache, we find, "For yours are the
power and the glory for ever."4 The Apostolic Constitutions add
to the beginning: "the kingdom," and this is the formula
retained to our day in ecumenical prayer.5 The Byzantine
tradition adds after "the glory" the words "Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit." The Roman Missal develops the last petition in the
explicit perspective of "awaiting our blessed hope" and of the
Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.6 Then comes the
assembly's acclamation or the repetition of the doxology from
the Apostolic Constitutions.
References"
1 Lk 11:1.
2 Cf. Lk 11:2-4.
3 Cf. Mt 6:9-13.
4 Didache 8,2:SCh 248,174.
5 Apostolic Constitutions, 7,24,1:PG 1,1016.
6 Titus 2:13; cf. Roman Missal 22, Embolism after the Lord's
Prayer.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: Piper Date: August 1, 2015, 12:04 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]Great idea for a thread, and I can get into
it; just downloaded a Scott Hahn book (yes, another :D) also
on the Lord's Prayer.
Amazing how much can be got out of what seems so simple a
prayer. That's the wisdom of Jesus talkin'.[/font]
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 2, 2015, 6:22 am
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ARTICLE 1 "THE SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE GOSPEL"
2761 The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole
gospel."7 "Since the Lord . . . after handing over the practice
of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since
everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances,
the regular and appropriate prayer [the Lord's Prayer] is said
first, as the foundation of further desires."8
I. AT THE CENTER OF THE SCRIPTURES
2762 After showing how the psalms are the principal food of
Christian prayer and flow together in the petitions of the Our
Father, St. Augustine concludes:
Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in
Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in
them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer.9
2763 All the Scriptures - the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms
- are fulfilled in Christ.10 The Gospel is this "Good News." Its
first proclamation is summarized by St. Matthew in the Sermon on
the Mount;11 the prayer to our Father is at the center of this
proclamation. It is in this context that each petition
bequeathed to us by the Lord is illuminated:
The Lord's Prayer 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.12
2764 The Sermon on the Mount is teaching for life, the Our
Father is a prayer; but in both the one and the other the Spirit
of the Lord gives new form to our desires, those inner movements
that animate our lives. Jesus teaches us this new life by his
words; he teaches us to ask for it by our prayer. The rightness
of our life in him will depend on the rightness of our prayer.
References:
7 Tertullian, De orat. 1:PL 1,1155.
8 Tertullian, De orat. 10:PL 1,1165; cf. Lk 11:9.
9 St. Augustine, Ep. 130,12,22:PL 33,503.
10 Cf. Lk 24:44.
11 Cf. Mt 5-7.
12 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II,83,9.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 2, 2015, 6:26 am
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II. THE LORD'S PRAYER
2765 The traditional expression "the Lord's Prayer" - oratio
Dominica - means that the prayer to our Father is taught and
given to us by the Lord Jesus. The prayer that comes to us from
Jesus is truly unique: it is "of the Lord." On the one hand, in
the words of this prayer the only Son gives us the words the
Father gave him:13 he is the master of our prayer. On the other,
as Word incarnate, he knows in his human heart the needs of his
human brothers and sisters and reveals them to us: he is the
model of our prayer.
2766 But Jesus does not give us a formula to repeat
mechanically.14 As in every vocal prayer, it is through the Word
of God that the Holy Spirit teaches the children of God to pray
to their Father. Jesus not only gives us the words of our filial
prayer; at the same time he gives us the Spirit by whom these
words become in us "spirit and life."15 Even more, the proof and
possibility of our filial prayer is that the Father "sent the
Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'"16
Since our prayer sets forth our desires before God, it is again
the Father, "he who searches the hearts of men," who "knows what
is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the
saints according to the will of God."17 The prayer to Our Father
is inserted into the mysterious mission of the Son and of the
Spirit.
References:
13 Cf. Jn 17:7.
14 Cf. Mt 6:7; 1 Kings 18:26-29.
15 Jn 6:63.
16 Gal 4:6.
17 Rom 8:27.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 2, 2015, 6:57 am
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III. THE PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
2767 This indivisible gift of the Lord's words and of the Holy
Spirit who gives life to them in the hearts of believers has
been received and lived by the Church from the beginning. The
first communities prayed the Lord's Prayer three times a day,18
in place of the "Eighteen Benedictions" customary in Jewish
piety.
2768 According to the apostolic tradition, the Lord's Prayer is
essentially rooted in liturgical prayer:
[The Lord] teaches us to make prayer in common for all
our brethren. For he did not say "my Father" who art in heaven,
but "our" Father, offering petitions for the common body.19
In all the liturgical traditions, the Lord's Prayer is an
integral part of the major hours of the Divine Office. In the
three sacraments of Christian initiation its ecclesial character
is especially in evidence:
2769 In Baptism and Confirmation, the handing on (traditio) of
the Lord's Prayer signifies new birth into the divine life.
Since Christian prayer is our speaking to God with the very word
of God, those who are "born anew". . . through the living and
abiding word of God"20 learn to invoke their Father by the one
Word he always hears. They can henceforth do so, for the seal of
the Holy Spirit's anointing is indelibly placed on their hearts,
ears, lips, indeed their whole filial being. This is why most of
the patristic commentaries on the Our Father are addressed to
catechumens and neophytes. When the Church prays the Lord's
Prayer, it is always the people made up of the "new-born" who
pray and obtain mercy.21
2770 In the Eucharistic liturgy the Lord's Prayer appears as the
prayer of the whole Church and there reveals its full meaning
and efficacy. Placed between the anaphora (the Eucharistic
prayer) and the communion, the Lord's Prayer sums up on the one
hand all the petitions and intercessions expressed in the
movement of the epiclesis and, on the other, knocks at the door
of the Banquet of the kingdom which sacramental communion
anticipates.
2771 In the Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer also reveals the
eschatological character of its petitions. It is the proper
prayer of "the end-time," the time of salvation that began with
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and will be fulfilled with the
Lord's return. The petitions addressed to our Father, as
distinct from the prayers of the old covenant, rely on the
mystery of salvation already accomplished, once for all, in
Christ crucified and risen.
2772 From this unshakeable faith springs forth the hope that
sustains each of the seven petitions, which express the
groanings of the present age, this time of patience and
expectation during which "it does not yet appear what we shall
be."22 The Eucharist and the Lord's Prayer look eagerly for the
Lord's return, "until he comes."23
References:
18 Cf. Didache 8,3:SCh 248,174.
19 St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Mt. 19,4:PG 57,278.
20 1 Pet 1:23.
21 Cf. 1 Pet 2:1-10.
22 1 Jn 3:2; cf. Col 3:4.
23 1 Cor 11:26.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 5, 2015, 6:47 am
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Article I - IN BRIEF
2773 In response to his disciples' request "Lord, teach us to
pray" (Lk 11:1), Jesus entrusts them with the fundamental
Christian prayer, the Our Father.
2774 "The Lord's Prayer is truly the summary of the whole
gospel,"24 the "most perfect of prayers."25 It is at the center
of the Scriptures.
2775 It is called "the Lord's Prayer" because it comes to us
from the Lord Jesus, the master and model of our prayer.
2776 The Lord's Prayer is the quintessential prayer of the
Church. It is an integral part of the major hours of the Divine
Office and of the sacraments of Christian initiation: Baptism,
Confirmation, and Eucharist. Integrated into the Eucharist it
reveals the eschatological character of its petitions, hoping
for the Lord, "until he comes" (1 Cor 11:26)
References:
24 Tertullian, De orat. 1:PL 1,1251-1255.
25 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II,83,9.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: Piper Date: August 5, 2015, 11:57 am
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[font=trebuchet ms]These things resonated with me:
[/font]
[quote]
"Since the Lord . . . after handing over the practice of prayer,
said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone
has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the
regular and appropriate prayer [the Lord's Prayer] is said
first, as the foundation of further desires.[/quote]
[font=trebuchet ms]This has helped me to begin personal prayer.
First, I reflect on each part of the Lord's prayer; then I know
every petition I might make, spoken or unspoken, is actually
already included by echoing Jesus' prayer-- the model he gave to
us.[/font]
[quote]In Baptism and Confirmation, the handing on (traditio) of
the Lord's Prayer signifies new birth into the divine life.
Since Christian prayer is our speaking to God with the very word
of God, those who are "born anew". . . through the living and
abiding word of God"20 learn to invoke their Father by the one
Word he always hears. They can henceforth do so, for the seal of
the Holy Spirit's anointing is indelibly placed on their hearts,
ears, lips, indeed their whole filial being. [/quote]
[font=trebuchet ms]This way of explanation fits into the
discussion concerning 'born again' and baptism. It reminds me
that our 'new birth' is not one specific thing, per se, but all
these divine things working together for our good, toward our
salvation, beginning very visibly and outwardly with baptism.
[/font]
[quote]The Lord's Prayer 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.[/quote]
[font=trebuchet ms]The "sequence" of the things we may rightly
desire is worthy of reflection, and is shown clearly to us in
the Lord's Prayer.[/font]
[quote][The Lord] teaches us to make prayer in common for all
our brethren. For he did not say "my Father" who art in heaven,
but "our" Father, offering petitions for the common
body.[/quote]
[font=trebuchet ms]This is important and makes us mindful of our
brothers and sisters, reminding us that we are commanded to
gather, and that the 'Jesus and me' (alone) mentality is not
God's desire for us. We are adopted children, given the right
to call God 'Father' by our belief in Jesus; we are a "common
body"---family.
[/font]
[quote]This indivisible gift of the Lord's words and of the
Holy Spirit who gives life to them in the hearts of believers
has been received and lived by the Church from the beginning.
The first communities prayed the Lord's Prayer three times a
day,18 in place of the "Eighteen Benedictions" customary in
Jewish piety.[/quote]
[font=trebuchet ms]Isn't that awesome? It is the
acknowledgement of such enduring traditions that help me to love
the Catholic faith. This prayer has echoed through the Church
for centuries.
There is consistancy and cohesion, history and a family bond
found in Sacred Tradition that calls to my spirit, assuring me I
am part of the family of God, not only here on earth, but, in
much greater number, alive in heaven, as well. For those
desperately hungry to 'belong' and to find 'family' not
experienced in our earthly circumstances, this is such a source
of spiritual strength.[/font]
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: CatholicCrusader Date: August 5, 2015, 6:23 pm
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Wonderful comments Nancy. Thank you.
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Re: The Lords Prayer - In Detail
By: Piper Date: August 5, 2015, 6:47 pm
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[font=trebuchet ms]Here's a link for you to the Scott Hahn book
I mentioned, with a 'look inside':
HTML http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Father-Biblical-Reflections/dp/1931018154
HTML http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Father-Biblical-Reflections/dp/1931018154[/font]
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