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The Our Father
The Our Father
Prayer, Explained
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- The question of, “How do we pray?” is one that is often asked and one that was
posed thousands of years ago by the disciples.
- In Luke 11:1-4, when one of Jesus’ disciples ask Him, “Lord, teach us to pray,”
Jesus replied by giving us the prayer that we recite countless times throughout
our lifetime — the Our Father, also known as The Lord’s Prayer.
- What is the Lord's Prayer?
o Jesus instructed His disciples and us to: "Pray, then, in this way"
7 PETITIONS
YOU PETITIONS
WE PETITIONS
1. Give us this day our daily bread
Amen.
- Because as Pope Benedict XVI wrote, “The meaning of the Our Father goes much
further than the mere provision of a prayer text. It aims to form our being, to train us in
the inner attitude of Jesus.”
- This prayer is a perfect model of how we should pray and for what things we should pray, and in
what order.