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Lords Prayer

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Lord's Prayer or Our Father, the principal Christian prayer that Jesus in the New Testament (Mat. 6.9-13; Luke 11.2-4) taught his followers, beginning, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name." It summarizes Jesus' teaching and stresses the concern of honoring God before that of meeting one's own needs. It also reveals Jesus' sense of a filial relationship with God. After the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholics added a version of the doxology ( "For thine is the kingdom," etc.) to prayer when used in the Mass; the doxolgy was already current in Protestant liturgies and is... Read more

Lord's Prayer
Prayer taught by Jesus to his disciples and used by all Christians as the basic prayer in common worship. It appears in two forms in the New Testament...Pater Noster (Latin: 'Our Father') for its first two words. Lord's Prayer Lord's Prayer Lord's Prayer Read more

Lord's Prayer
Lord's Prayer. The prayer beginning ‘Our Father’, taught by the Lord to His disciples...probably added in early times and is found in some later Gospel MSS. The prayer is usually divided into the address and seven petitions, the first... Read more

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