THE OUR FATHER
Taken from The Secret of the Rosary, by St. Louis De Montfort
The Our Father or the Lord's prayer has great value—above all because of its Author Who is neither a man nor an angel but the King of angels and men, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ...
The beautiful order, the tender forcefulness and the clarity of this divine prayer pay tribute to our divine Master's wisdom...
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs...
Saint John Chrysostom says that we cannot be our Master's disciples unless we pray as He did...
We should say that Our Father with the certitude that the eternal Father will hear it...
Saint Augustine says that whenever we say the Our Father devoutly our venial sins are forgiven...
I have a word for you, devout souls, who pay little attention to the prayer that the Son of God gave us Himself...
People who say Our Lord's Prayer carefully, weighing every word and meditating upon it, may indeed call themselves blessed...
When we say this wonderful prayer we touch God's heart at the very outset by calling Him by the sweet name of Father—Our Father...
Our Father Who art in heaven,
Thou Who dost fill heaven and earth... (keep your poetic formatting exactly as is)
Hallowed be Thy name:
King David, the prophet, said that the name of the Lord is holy and awe-inspiring...
Thy Kingdom come:
Do Thou reign in our souls... (keep poem formatting)
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven:
As Tertullian says, this sentence does not in the least mean...
Give us this day our daily bread:
Our Lord taught us to ask God for everything that we need...
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us:
Every sin... is a debt which we contract...
But deliver us from evil:
The evil of sin...
Amen (So be it).
Each word of the Lord's Prayer is a tribute we pay to the perfections of God...
Our Father—this means that He is the Father of mankind...
When we say Who art, by these words we pay tribute...
We show our trust in His Providence by asking for our daily bread...
The Son of God has always glorified His Father...
We make as many acts of the noblest Christian virtues as we pronounce words...
If we mean in our hearts what we say with our lips...
When we say the name Father and remember that we owe our existence to God...
We are never farther from blaspheming than when we pray...
If we sincerely ask God that our neighbor may have the very same blessings...
To ask God to save us from falling into sin...
To pray God to deliver us from evil...
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