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the greatest messenger in the world.

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THE OUR FATHER
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 MAN, OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
We should say THE OUR FATHER with the certitude that

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THE ETERNAL FATHER will hear it because it is the prayer 🙏 of HIS SON WHOM HE always hear and we are His members. GOD will surely grant our petitions made through the Lord's prayer because it is impossible to imagine that such a Good FATHER could refuse a request

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couched in d language of so worthy a SON, reinforced by His merits, & made at His behest.
People who say OUR LORD'S PRAYER carefully, weighing every word and meditating upon it, may indeed call themselves blessed for they find therein everything that they need or can wish for.

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When we say this wonderful prayer we touch GOD'S HEART at d very outset by calling Him by d sweet Name of FATHER--OUR FATHER. HE IS D DEAREST OF FATHER'S: ALL-POWERFUL IN HIS CREATION, WONDERFUL IN THE WAY HE MAINTAINS THE WORLD, COMPLETELY LOVABLE IN HIS
DIVINE PROVIDENCE.

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-ALWAYS GOOD AND INFINITELY SO IN THE REDEMPTION. We have GOD FOR OUR FATHER, so we are all brothers---and HEAVEN IS OUR HOMELAND AND OUR HERITAGE. This should be more than enough to teach us to love God and our neighbor and to be detached from the things of this World.

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So we ought to love our HEAVENLY FATHER and should say to HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN:
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN
Thou Who dost fill Heaven and Earth
With the immensity of Thy Being,
Thou Who art present everywhere---
Thou Who art in the Saints

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By Thy Glory
In d damned
By Thy Justice
In d Good
By Thy Grace ---
& even in sinners
By d patience
With which Thou dost tolerate them--
Grant we beseech Thee
That we may always remember
That we come fr Thee;
Grant that we may live
As Thy true children ought to live---

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Grant that we may set our course
Towards Thee
& never swerve ---
Grant that we may use
Our every power,
Our hearts & souls & strength
To tend towards Thee
& THEE ALONE.

HALLOWED BE THY NAME
King David, d prophet, said that d name of the Lord is Holy & Awe-inspiring,

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and Isaias that Heaven is always echoing with the praises of the Seraphim who unceasingly praise the holiness of the LORD GOD OF HOSTS.
We ask here that all the World may learn to know and adore the attributes of our GOD WHO IS SO GREAT AND SO HOLY.

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We ask that He may be known, loved and adored by pagans, Turks, Jews, barbarians and by all infidels --- that all men may serve and glorify Him by a living faith, a staunch hope, a burning charity and by renouncing all erroneous beliefs.

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This all adds up to say that we pray that all man may be holy, because our God Himself is all Holy.

THY KINGDOM COME:
Do Thou reign in our souls
By Thy Grace
So that after death
We may be found meet
To reign with Thee
In Thy Kingdom
In perfect and unending bliss.

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Oh Lord we firmly believe
In this happiness to come ;
We hope for and we expect it,
Because God the Father
Had promised it
In His great goodness;
It was purchased for us
By the merits of God the Son
And God the Holy Spirit
He Who is the Light
Has made it known to us.

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THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN:
As Tertullian says, this sentence does not in d least mean that we are afraid of people thwarting God's design bec nothing whatsoever can happen w/out Divine Providence having foreseen it & having made it fit into His plans b4hand.

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No obstruction in d whole World can possibly prevent d Will of God fr being carried out.
Rather, when we say THY WILL BE DONE, we ask God to make it humbly resigned to all that he has seen fit to send us in this life. We ask Him to help us to do, in all things & at all times,

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His Holy Will, made known to us by the Commandments, promptly, Lovingly and faithfully as the Saints and Angels do it in Heaven.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD :
Our Lord taught us to ask God for everything that we need whether in the spiritual or temporal order.

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By asking 4 our daily Bread we humbly admit our own poverty & insufficiency & pay tribute to our God knowing that all temporal goods come fr His Divine Providence.
When we say Bread we ask 4 that which is just necessary to live; &, of course, this does not include luxuries.

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We ask 4 this Bread today this day which means that we are concerned only 4d present, leaving d morrow in d hands of Providence.
&when we ask 4 our daily Bread we recognized that we need God's help everyday & that we are entirely dependent upon Him 4 His help& protection.

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FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US:
Every sin, say St Augustine and Tertullian, is a debt which we contract towards Almighty God, and His Justice demands payment down to the very last farthing.

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Unfortunately we all have these sad debts.
No matter how many they may be we should go to God in all confidence and with true sorrow for our sins, saying "Our Father Who art in Heaven, forgive us our sins of thought and those of speech,

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forgive us our sins of commission & omission which make us infinitely guilty in d eyes of Thy Divine Justice
We dare to ask this because Thou art our loving merciful Father and because we have forgotten those who have offended us, out of obedience to Thee and out of charity.