Jesus taught us to pray, Our Father, Pater Noster. Here's wisdom from Austin Farrer:
CHRIST taught us to pray for daily bread in saying the Pater Noster, and added some comments to the prayer. He taught that for the very reason that God is our Father and we his family, it is fitting that we should seek our bread from his hand. We say the Pater Noster in this sacrament, remembering how Christ went from the Last Supper straight to Gethsemane, and prayed to his Father there in the spirit of a true Son. Abba, Father, he said, asking for the wholesome bread of life if he could have it, but willing to receive the bitter cup of death and shame if it was his Father’s will. St. Paul says that it is the Spirit of Sonship, overflowing from Christ to us, which speaks in our hearts when we say Our Father. We kneel with Christ in Gethsemane to say that prayer, and even then it is not truly said unless Christ says it in us through the Holy Ghost.
St. Paul says that it is the Spirit of Sonship, overflowing from Christ to us, which speaks in our hearts when we say Our Father. We kneel with Christ in Gethsemane to say that prayer, and even then it is not truly said unless Christ says it in us through the Holy Ghost.
Amen to that,
LSP
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And for all you Latin dogs:
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
They say the Devil, like an English schoolboy, hates Latin.
Is this prayer not popular with the Commentariat?
ReplyDeleteJust reviewing this after a few hundred mile drive. Grew up in the Catholic church with the understanding The Lord’s Prayer was THE prayer, until later when gaining insight that it is the framework for HOW we are to pray. Changed everything for me.
ReplyDeleteWhat you shared is…well…Amen to all of it.
Sitting here in the hospital, watching the rising and falling of my wife's chest as she sleeps, knowing full well the consequences of the terrible onslaught of cancer and a liver barely functioning, Our Father floods into my mind and heart. She, having received Last Rites from LSP, seems to be residing in both realms, heaven and earth, as we pray to Our Father for in the Pater Noster. Her Father. My Father. Our Father. And my soul feasts upon that Daily Bread of His love and divine empathy.
ReplyDeleteOur Father Who art in heaven, Thy Presence here on earth, pacifies and strengthens my soul.
Amen.