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The “Our Father” Prayer “Pater Noster” in Latin reminds HIM of HER

“The Lord’s Prayer is truly the summary of the gospel of good news. Since the Lord… after handling the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, ‘Ask and you will receive’, and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his or her circumstances, this regular and appropriate prayer is indeed a formula for petition that is rendered from the Lord himself, as the foundation of all other utterances to him and her above.”


- adapted from Tertullian, De orat.


Read more from my Medium.com article here:


In the Lukan narrative of the abbreviated “Lord’s Prayer”, Jesus responded to a question from one of his disciples: Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples” (see Luke 11:1–4).

In the Matthean narrative, Jesus is unusually bombastic as he says “And when you pray, you must not be like the [Jewish] hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be [seen] by others. Truly, I say to you, they [have] received their reward” (see Matthew 6:6).


Let’s review The Lord’s Prayer, from the original Aramaic Translation by Neil Douglas Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos:


O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos Focus your light within us — make it useful. Create your reign of unity now Through our fiery hearts and willing hands Help us love beyond our ideals and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures. Animate the earth within us: so we may then feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all. Untangle the knots within so that we can mend our hearts’ simple ties to each other. Don’t let surface things delude us, But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose. Out of you, the astonishing fire, Returning light and sound to the cosmos. Amen.


 
 
 

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