Our Father Prayer: Hallowed be thy name. Our Father's Prayer. Read other prayers in the "Orthodox Prayer Book" section

Lord's Prayer

But when you pray, go into your room and, having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.

7 And when you pray, do not say too much, like the pagans, for they think that in their many words they will be heard;

8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

9 Pray like this: (Matthew 6:6-9)

Our Father, who art in heaven!

Hallowed be Thy name,

May your kingdom come

Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth.

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors;

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

(Matthew 6:9-13)

"Our Father, Who art in heaven!" (Matthew 6:9)

To the speaker Father what kind of soul is needed? How much boldness does it take? What kind of conscience do you need to have, so that after knowing God and understanding that the nature of God is goodness, holiness, joy, power, glory, purity... then you dare to pronounce this word and call such a Being your Father? It is obvious that if someone has any intelligence, then, not seeing in himself the same as in God, he will not dare to utter these words to him and say:Father! For it is unnatural for someone who is good in essence to become the father of someone who is evil in deeds, for a saint to become the father of someone defiled in life, for the Father of life to become the father of someone killed by sin... Therefore, when the Lord teaches us in prayer to call God Father, he does nothing more than legitimize an exalted way of life.

When the Lord teaches us to call Himself Father, it seems to me that He legitimizes an exalted and lofty way of life, because the Truth teaches us not to lie, not to say about ourselves what is not in us, not to call ourselves what we were not. But, calling the Imperishable, Righteous and Good as your Father, you must justify this relationship with life. Therefore, you see, how much preparation we need, what kind of life we ​​need, how much and what thoroughness is needed in order to, with the elevation of our conscience, achieve such a measure of boldness and dare to say to God: “Father”... When we approach God, let us first pay attention on our life: do we have anything in ourselves worthy of Divine kinship, and then we dare to say the word “Father”.St. Gregory of Nyssa

When the Lord says in prayer:who is in heaven , then with this word he does not imprison God in heaven, but distracts the one praying from the earth and places him in the highest countries and mountain dwellings.St. John Chrysostom

"Hallowed be thy name" (Matthew 6:9)

Yes hallowed that means let him be glorified. That is, vouchsafe us to live so purely that through us everyone will glorify You, to display a blameless life before everyone, so that each of those who see it will offer praise to the Lord.St. John Chrysostom

We are speaking Hallowed be thy name not in the sense that we wish God that He may be sanctified by our prayers; but we ask Him that His name may be sanctified in us. For from whom will God, who Himself sanctifies everyone, be sanctified?Sschmch. Cyprian of Carthage

We sanctify the name of the Heavenly Father by grace when we mortify all lust... and cleanse ourselves from corrupting passions, for holiness is the complete stillness and deadness of lust in the heart.St. Maxim the Confessor

"Thy kingdom come" (Matthew 6:10)

The Kingdom that we ask from the Heavenly Father is the future Kingdom after the end of the world. We pray to Him for the speedy coming of this Kingdom, so that we can quickly enter into it... This is the desire of Christians, the confusion of the pagans, the triumph of Angels; For the sake of the Kingdom we suffer and desire it uncontrollably.Tertullian

What a wondrous sequence in the Lord’s Prayer!.. After asking for the gift of perfect knowledge of God, the Lord teaches a person adopted by God to ask for the Kingdom of God to descend into his soul. This Kingdom He commands to ask for the humble, but strong prayer faith... He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself becomes alien to a world hostile to God... He can infallibly desire that the visible Kingdom of God should come on earth, destroy sin from the face of the earth, and establish the rule of Truth on it.St. Ignatiy Brianchaninov

"Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth." (Matthew 6:10)

Speaking: Thy will be done , we do not pray that God will do what he wants, but that we can do what God wants. For who can stop God from doing what he wants? But since the devil prevents us from allowing both our spirit and our deeds to follow God in everything, we ask and pray: may God’s will be done in us.Sschmch. Cyprian of Carthage

God first commanded to desire the future and strive for one’s fatherland; but until this happens, those living here should try to lead the kind of life that is characteristic of the celestials. For one must desire, He says, Heaven and the Celestial. But before reaching Heaven, we must make the earth Heaven, so that while living on it, we can act and speak as if we were in Heaven, and pray to the Lord for this.St. John Chrysostom

“In one place,” said the elder, “they prayed for rain, and in another - so that it would not rain. It turned out that God wanted it.” Go where they lead you, see what they show you, and keep saying: “Thy will be done.”St. Ambrose Optinsky

"Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6:11)

The bread of God is the one that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. In. 6, 33

I am the seven bread of life. In. 6, 47

What a wonderful order Divine wisdom has given to prayer requests. When after the heavenly, i.e. the name of God, the Kingdom of God, the will of God gave place to petition for earthly needs... However, the wordsgive us this day our daily bread we will understand more in spiritual sense. For Christ is our bread: He is our life and the bread of life, as He himself says:I am the bread of life... Asking for our daily bread, we pray for unceasing abiding in Christ through the communion of His Body.Tertullian

In the Discourse on the Mount, the Lord says that bread can have three meanings: it can mean material bread, and the sacrament of the Body of Christ... and spiritual food. Of these three meanings, He sometimes talks primarily about one, sometimes about the other, but always has all three in mind.Blzh. Augustine

“And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” (Matthew 6:12)

Debts here mean sins - words, deeds and thoughts that are contrary to the law of God... Sins are called debts because, just as in citizenship it happens that debts oblige the debtor to repay the lender... so sins oblige us to satisfy the righteousness of God, and when we have no means to pay, they imprison us in eternal prison. We cannot pay these debts through ourselves, and for this we resort to the merits of Christ and the mercy of God... When we ask,forgive us our debts , then through this it is clear that we pray not only for ourselves, but also for each other...

It says: as we also leave our debtor . With this word we learn so that we ourselves can forgive the sins of our neighbors... God forgives us our sins out of mercy; and we, imitating Him, out of mercy must forgive the sins of our brethren.St. Tikhon Zadonsky

"And do not lead us into temptation" (Matthew 6:13)

Temptations, according to Scripture, are of two kinds: some come through what is pleasant, and others through what is sorrowful and painful; some are voluntary and others are involuntary. From them sin is born, and we are commanded to pray not to enter into them, according to the commandment of the Lord, who taught us to say in prayer:and do not lead us into temptation... And others are the executioners of sin, punishing a sin-loving disposition by inflicting involuntary grave sorrows, which if anyone endures... will find the words of the great Jacob applicable to himself:Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (James 1:2-3) . The evil one maliciously spies on both such temptations, and during the first he manages, by means of allure and arousal of carnal pleasures, to tempt the soul to lag behind the God-loving mood, and during the second he attempts to deceive the soul, suppressed by the weight of sorrows and troubles, to accept thoughts of murmuring and bringing injustice against the Creator.St. Maxim the Confessor

This raises an important question! If we pray so as not to be tempted, how can we prove the virtue of our firmness, which is required by Holy Scripture?..Blessed is the man who endures temptation (James 1:12) . So, the words of the prayer - do not lead us into temptation - do not mean that do not allow us to ever be tempted, but do not allow us to be defeated in temptation. Job was tempted, but was not led into temptation, for he did not say anything unreasonable about God (Job 1:22) and did not defile his lips with blasphemy, to which the tempter wanted to lead him. Abraham was tempted, Joseph was tempted, but neither one nor the other of them was led into temptation, for neither fulfilled the will of the tempter.St. John Cassian the Roman

It is not God Himself who leads into temptation, but He allows to be led into it by the one whom He deprives of His help according to His deepest intentions, because he deserves it.Blzh. Augustine

"But deliver us from evil" (Matthew 6:13)

After all, at the end of the prayer there is a conclusion that briefly expresses all our prayers and petitions. At the end we say:but deliver us from evil , meaning by this all sorts of troubles that the enemy is plotting against us in this world and against which we will have faithful and strong defense if we have God as a deliverer from them, if, at our request and prayer, He gives us His help. Then, after the words - deliver us from the evil one - we ask for the complete protection of God against the evil one, and having received such protection, we are already safe and protected from all the snares of the devil and the world. Indeed, why should one who has God as a Protector in this world be afraid of the world?Sschmch. Cyprian of Carthage

With this we pray to the Heavenly Father to protect us from it, from which we ourselves (on our own) cannot protect ourselves... With this word our Savior stirs us up to prayer and through prayer teaches us to get rid of it.St. Tikhon Zadonsky

"For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever." (Matthew 6:13)

A reminder of the enemy in wordsdeliver us from evil Having made us cautious and stopped all our carelessness, He further inspires us, introducing us to the King under whose authority we fight, and showing that He is more powerful than all.As Yours is , says the Savior,Kingdom and power and glory . So, if His is the Kingdom, then we should not be afraid, since no one resists Him and no one shares power with Him. For when the Savior said:Yours is the Kingdom , then shows that this enemy of ours is subordinate to God, although he still resists by God’s permission... In a word:and glory it is shown that this King not only frees you from the evils that threaten you, but can also make you glorious... for just as His power is great, so His glory is inexpressible, and all this is boundless and infinite.St. John Chrysostom

Brief prayer rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov

The Monk Seraphim of Sarov taught everyone the following prayer rule: “Having risen from sleep, every Christian, standing before the holy icons, let him read the Lord’s PrayerOur Father three times*, in honor of the Holy Trinity, thenhymn to the Mother of God :

Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women, and Blessed is the fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.(three times)

Symbol of faith:

I believe in one God the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, born, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, to Whom all things were.

For our sake, man and our salvation came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became human.

She was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried.

And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures.

And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father.

And again the coming one will be judged with glory by the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the life-giving, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets.

Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.

I drink the resurrection of the dead,

and the life of the next century. Amen. (one time)

- Having completed this rule, let him go about his business to which he has been assigned or called. While working at home or on the road somewhere, let him read quietly:

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner (or sinner) ,

and if others surround him, then, while doing business, let him speak only with his mind

Lord have mercy

and continues until lunch.

- Just before lunch, let him do the above morning rule. After lunch, while doing his job, he reads quietly:

Most Holy Theotokos, save me, a sinner (or a sinner), or

Lord Jesus Christ, through the Mother of God, have mercy on me, a sinner (or sinner) ,

and let this continue until sleep. When going to bed, let every Christian read the above morning rule again; after that let him fall asleep, protecting himself sign of the cross m".

“By adhering to this rule,” says Father Seraphim, “one can achieve a measure of Christian perfection, for the above three prayers are the foundation of Christianity: the first, as a prayer given by the Lord Himself, is a model of all prayers; the second was brought from heaven by the Archangel in greeting to the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Lord; The symbol briefly contains saving dogmas Christian faith" For those who, due to various circumstances, cannot follow even this small rule, Venerable Seraphim He advised reading it in every position: during classes, while walking, and even in bed, presenting the basis for this as the words of Holy Scripture: Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

“Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as it is in Heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”

INTERPRETATION OF THE OUR FATHER PRAYER

The most main prayer, it is called the Lord’s because the Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave it to His disciples when they asked Him to teach them how to pray (see Matt. 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4).

Our Father, who art in heaven! With these words we turn to God and, calling Him Heavenly Father, we call upon Him to listen to our requests or petitions. When we say that He is in heaven, we must mean the spiritual, invisible sky, and not that visible blue vault that is spread over us and which we call heaven.

Hallowed be your name - that is, help us to live righteously, holyly and glorify Your name with our holy deeds.

Thy Kingdom come - that is, honor us here on earth with Your Heavenly Kingdom, which is truth, love and peace; reign in us and rule us.

Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth - that is, let everything not be as we want, but as You please, and help us to obey this Your will and fulfill it on earth as unquestioningly and without grumbling as it is fulfilled, with love and joy, by the holy Angels in heaven . Because only You know what is useful and necessary for us, and You wish us good more than we ourselves.

Give us our daily bread today - that is, give us for this day, for today, our daily bread. By bread here we mean everything necessary for our life on earth: food, clothing, housing, but most importantly the Most Pure Body and the Honorable Blood in the Sacrament of Holy Communion, without which there is no salvation in eternal life. The Lord commanded us to ask ourselves not for wealth, not for luxury, but only for the most necessary things, and to rely on God in everything, remembering that He, as a Father, always cares and takes care of us.

And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors. ("debts" – sins;"our debtor"– to those people who have sinned against us) - that is, forgive us our sins just as we ourselves forgive those who have offended or offended us. In this petition, our sins are called our debts, because the Lord gave us strength, abilities and everything else in order to do good deeds, and we often turn all this into sin and evil and become debtors to God. And if we ourselves do not sincerely forgive our debtors, that is, people who have sins against us, then God will not forgive us. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself told us about this.

And do not lead us into temptation – temptations are a state when something or someone draws us to sin, tempts us to do something lawless or bad. We ask - do not allow us to be tempted, which we cannot bear, help us overcome temptations when they happen.

But deliver us from evil - that is, deliver us from all evil in this world and from the culprit (chief) of evil - from the devil ( evil spirit), who is always ready to destroy us. Deliver us from this cunning, crafty power and its deceptions, which is nothing before you.

OUR FATHER - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

The Lord's Prayer is also called the Lord's Prayer, because Christ Himself gave it to the apostles in response to their request: “teach us to pray” (Luke 11:1). Today Christians say this prayer every day in the morning and evening rules, in churches during the Liturgy all parishioners sing it out loud. But, unfortunately, when we often repeat a prayer, we do not always understand what exactly is behind its words?

"Our Father, who art in heaven"

1. We call God Father because He created us all?
No, for this reason we can call Him - Creator, or - Creator. The appeal Father presupposes a very definite personal relationship between children and the Father, which must be expressed primarily in likeness to the Father. God is Love, therefore our whole life should also become an expression of love for God and for the people around us. If this does not happen, then we risk becoming like those about whom Jesus Christ said: Your father is the devil; and you want to fulfill the lusts of your father(John 8:44). The Old Testament Jews lost the right to call God Father. The prophet Jeremiah speaks about this bitterly: And I said: ...you will call Me your father and will not depart from Me. But truly, just as a woman betrays her friend treacherously, so you, O house of Israel, have dealt treacherously with Me, says the Lord. ...Come back, rebellious children: I will heal your rebellion(Jer 3:20-22). However, the return of the rebellious children took place only with the coming of Christ. Through Him, God has again adopted all who are ready to live according to the commandments of the Gospel.

Saint Cyril of Alexandria:“Only God himself can allow people to call God Father. He granted this right to people, making them sons of God. And despite the fact that they withdrew from Him and were in extreme anger against Him, He granted oblivion of insults and the sacrament of grace.”

2. Why “Our Father” and not “mine”? After all, it would seem, what could be a more personal matter for a person than turning to God?

The most important and most personal thing for a Christian is love for other people. Therefore, we are called to ask God for mercy not only for ourselves, but for all people living on Earth.

Saint John Chrysostom: “...He does not say: “My Father, who art in Heaven,” but “Our Father,” and thereby commands us to offer prayers for the entire human race and never have in mind our own benefits, but always try for the benefits of our neighbor. And in this way he destroys enmity, and overthrows pride, and destroys envy, and introduces love - the mother of all good things; destroys the inequality of human affairs and shows complete equality between the king and the poor, since we all have equal participation in the highest and most necessary matters.”.

3. Why “in Heaven” if the Church teaches that God is omnipresent?

God is truly omnipresent. But a person is always in a certain place, and not only with his body. Our thoughts also always have a certain direction. Mentioning Heaven in prayer helps to distract our mind from earthly things and direct it to Heavenly things.

“And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors.”

8. Does God forgive sins only to those who themselves have forgiven their offenders? Why shouldn't he forgive everyone?

Resentment and revenge are not inherent in God. At any moment, He is ready to accept and forgive everyone who turns to Him. But remission of sins is possible only where a person has renounced sin, seen all its destructive abomination and hated it for the troubles that sin has brought into his life and into the lives of other people. And forgiveness of offenders is a direct commandment of Christ! And if we, knowing this commandment, still do not fulfill it, then we are sinning, and this sin is so pleasant and important for us that we do not want to give it up even for the sake of Christ’s commandment. With such a burden on the soul it is impossible to enter the Kingdom of God. Only it is not God who is to blame, but ourselves.

Saint John Chrysostom: “This absolution initially depends on us, and the judgment pronounced on us lies in our power. So that none of the unreasonable, being convicted of a great or small crime, have any reason to complain about the court, the Savior makes you, the guilty one, a judge over yourself and, as it were, says: what kind of judgment will you pronounce on yourself, the same judgment will I I will say about you; If you forgive your brother, then you will receive the same benefit from Me.”.

“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

9. Does God tempt anyone or lead anyone into temptation?

God, of course, does not tempt anyone. But we are not able to overcome temptations without His help. If we, receiving this gracious help, suddenly decide that we can live virtuously without Him, then God takes His grace away from us. But He does this not for the sake of revenge, but so that we can be convinced from bitter experience of our own powerlessness before sin, and again turn to Him for help.

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk: “With this word: “Lead us not into temptation,” we pray to God that He may preserve us with His grace from the temptation of the world, the flesh and the devil. And although we fall into temptations, we ask that he does not allow us to be overcome by them, but helps us to overcome and conquer them. From this it is clear that without God's help we are powerless and weak. If we ourselves could resist temptation, we would not be commanded to ask for help in this. By this we learn, as soon as we feel a temptation coming upon us, to immediately pray to God and ask Him for help. From this we learn not to rely on ourselves and our own strength, but on God.”.

10. Who is this evil one? Or is it evil? How to correctly understand this word in the context of prayer?

Word sly - opposite in meaning to the word straight . Onion (like a weapon), from Ray other rivers, the famous Pushkinskoe onion Omorye - all these are words, cognate words onion avy in the sense that they denote a certain curvature, something indirect, twisted. In the Lord's Prayer, the devil is called the evil one, who was originally created as a bright angel, but by his falling away from God he distorted his own nature and distorted it. natural movements. Any of his actions also became distorted, that is, crafty, indirect, incorrect.

Saint John Chrysostom: “Here Christ calls the devil evil, commanding us to wage irreconcilable warfare against him, and showing that he is not such by nature. Evil does not depend on nature, but on freedom. And the fact that the devil is primarily called evil is due to the extraordinary amount of evil that is found in him, and because he, without being offended by anything from us, wages an irreconcilable war against us. That is why the Savior did not say: deliver us from the evil ones, but from the evil one, and thereby teaches us never to be angry with our neighbors for the insults that we sometimes suffer from them, but to turn all our enmity against the devil, as the culprit of all angry".

The text of the Lord's Prayer should be known and read by every Orthodox believer. According to the Gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ gave it to his disciples in response to a request to teach them prayer.

Prayer Our Father

Our Father, who art in Heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as it is in Heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Our Father who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matt., )

After reading the prayer, it should be completed with the sign of the cross and a bow. Our Father is said by believers, for example, at home in front of an icon, or in a church during a service.

Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer by St. John Chrysostom

Our Father, Who art in Heaven! Look how He immediately encouraged the listener and at the very beginning remembered all the good deeds of God! In fact, the one who calls God Father, by this one name already confesses forgiveness of sins, and liberation from punishment, and justification, and sanctification, and redemption, and sonship, and inheritance, and brotherhood with the Only Begotten, and the gift of the spirit, so just as someone who has not received all these benefits cannot call God Father. So, Christ inspires His listeners in two ways: both by the dignity of what is called, and by the greatness of the benefits that they received.

When does he speak in Heaven, then with this word he does not imprison God in heaven, but distracts the one praying from the earth and places him in the highest countries and in the mountain dwellings.

Further, with these words He teaches us to pray for all the brothers. He does not say: “My Father, who art in Heaven,” but - Our Father, and thereby commands us to offer prayers for the entire human race and never have in mind our own benefits, but always try for the benefits of our neighbor. And in this way he destroys enmity, and overthrows pride, and destroys envy, and introduces love - the mother of all good things; destroys the inequality of human affairs and shows complete equality between the king and the poor, since we all have equal participation in the highest and most necessary matters.

Of course, calling God Father contains a sufficient teaching about every virtue: whoever calls God Father, and the common Father, must necessarily live in such a way as not to prove unworthy of this nobility and show zeal equal to a gift. However, the Savior was not satisfied with this name, but added other sayings.

Hallowed be Thy name, He says. Let him be holy means let him be glorified. God has his own glory, full of all majesty and never changing. But the Savior commands the one who prays to ask that God may be glorified by our life. He said about this before: Let your light shine before people, so that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16). Grant us, as the Savior teaches us to pray, to live so purely that through us everyone will glorify You. To demonstrate a blameless life before everyone, so that each of those who see it exalts praise to the Lord - this is a sign of perfect wisdom.

Thy kingdom come. And these words are appropriate for a good son, who is not attached to what is visible and does not consider present blessings to be something great, but strives for the Father and desires future blessings. Such prayer comes from a good conscience and a soul free from everything earthly.

Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth. Do you see the beautiful connection? He first commanded to desire the future and strive for one’s fatherland, but until this happens, those living here should try to lead the kind of life that is characteristic of the inhabitants of heaven.

So, the meaning of the Savior’s words is this: just as in heaven everything happens without hindrance and it does not happen that the Angels obey in one thing and disobey in another, but in everything they obey and submit - so grant us, people, not half-heartedly to do Your will , but do everything as You please.

Give us this day our daily bread. What is daily bread? Everyday. Since Christ said: Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth, and He talked with people clothed in flesh, who are subject to the necessary laws of nature and cannot have angelic dispassion, although He commands us to fulfill the commandments in the same way as the Angels fulfill them, but condescends to the weakness of nature and seems to say: “I demand from you the equal angelic severity of life, however, not demanding dispassion, since your nature, which has a necessary need for food, does not allow it.”

Look, however, how there is a lot of spirituality in the physical! The Savior commanded us to pray not for wealth, not for pleasures, not for valuable clothes, not for anything else like that - but only for bread, and, moreover, for everyday bread, so that we would not worry about tomorrow, which is why he added: daily bread, that is, everyday. He was not even satisfied with this word, but then added another: give it to us today so that we do not overwhelm ourselves with worry about the coming day. In fact, if you don’t know whether you will see tomorrow, then why bother yourself with worrying about it?

Further, since it happens to sin even after the font of rebirth (that is, the Sacrament of Baptism. - Comp.), the Savior, wanting in this case to show His great love for mankind, commands us to approach the man-loving God with a prayer for the forgiveness of our sins and say so: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Do you see the abyss of God's mercy? After taking away so many evils and after the indescribably great gift of justification, He again deigns to forgive those who sin.

By reminding us of sins, He inspires us with humility; by commanding to let others go, he destroys rancor in us, and by promising us forgiveness for this, he affirms good hopes in us and teaches us to reflect on the ineffable love of God for mankind.

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Here the Savior clearly shows our insignificance and overthrows pride, teaching us not to abandon exploits and not to arbitrarily rush towards them; in this way, for us, victory will be more brilliant, and for the devil, defeat will be more painful. As soon as we are involved in the struggle, we must stand courageously; and if there is no call to it, then we must calmly wait for the time of exploits in order to show ourselves both unconceited and courageous. Here Christ calls the devil evil, commanding us to wage irreconcilable warfare against him and showing that he is not like that by nature. Evil does not depend on nature, but on freedom. And the fact that the devil is primarily called the evil one is due to the extraordinary amount of evil that is found in him, and because he, without being offended by anything from us, wages an irreconcilable battle against us. Therefore, the Savior did not say: “Deliver us from the evil ones,” but from the evil one, and thereby teaches us never to be angry with our neighbors for the insults that we sometimes suffer from them, but to turn all our enmity against the devil as the culprit of all angry By reminding us of the enemy, making us more cautious and stopping all our carelessness, He further inspires us, introducing us to the King under whose authority we fight, and showing that He is more powerful than all: For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen,- says the Savior. So, if His is the Kingdom, then one should not be afraid of anyone, since no one resists Him and no one shares power with Him.

The interpretation of the Lord's Prayer is given in abbreviations. “Interpretation of St. Matthew the Evangelist of Creation” Vol. 7. Book. 1. SP6., 1901. Reprint: M., 1993. P. 221-226

Prayers in Christianity are divided into thanksgiving, prayers of petition, festive and universal. There are also prayers that every self-respecting Christian should know. One such prayer text is the “Our Father.”

The meaning of the Lord's Prayer

Jesus Christ passed this prayer on to the apostles so that they, in turn, would pass it on to the world. This is a petition for seven blessings - spiritual shrines, which are ideals for any believer. With the words of this prayer we express respect for God, love for Him, as well as faith in the future.

This prayer is suitable for any life situations. It is universal - it is read at every church liturgy. It is customary to offer it in honor of thanksgiving to God for the happiness sent, to ask for healing, for the salvation of the soul, in the morning and evening, before going to bed. Reading “Our Father” with all your heart, it should not be like normal reading. As they say church leaders, it is better not to say this prayer at all than to read it simply because it is necessary.

Text of the Lord's Prayer:

Our Father who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And now and ever, throughout the age of centuries. Amen.

"Hallowed be Thy name"- this is how we show respect for God, for his uniqueness and unchanging greatness.

"Thy Kingdom come"- this is how we ask that the Lord deign to rule us and not turn away from us.

"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"- this is how a believer asks God to take an invariable part in everything that happens to us.

"Give us this day our daily bread"- give us the body and blood of Christ for this life.

“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,”- our willingness to forgive insults from our enemies, which will return to us in God's forgiveness of sins.

"Lead us not into temptation"- a request that God does not betray us, does not leave us to be torn to pieces by sins.

"Deliver us from evil"- this is how it is customary to ask that God help us resist temptations and the human desire for sin.

This prayer works wonders; she is able to save us in the most difficult moments our life. This is why most people read the Lord’s Prayer when danger approaches or in hopeless situations. Pray to God for salvation and happiness, but not earthly, but heavenly. Keep the faith and don't forget to push the buttons and

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Text of the Lord's Prayer

In Church Slavonic:

Our Father, Who art thoú in heaven ́ x!
Hallowed be Thy name,
Yes come ́ children Tsa ́ Thy joy,
Thy will be done
I in heaven and on earth .
Our bread is on our handś Give us this day;
and the rest You care about our lies,
I skin and we are leavinǵ eat debtor ́ m ours;
and don't enteŕ us into temptation
but the hut take us away from the bow

In Russian:

Our Father who art in heaven!
Hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)

Our Father who art in heaven!
Hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
Give us our daily bread;
and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every debtor to us;
and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
(Luke 11:2-4)

In Greek:

Πάτερ ἡ μ ῶ ν, ὁ ἐ ν το ῖ ς ο ὐ ρανο ῖ ς.
ἁ γιασθήτω τ ὸ ὄ νομά σου,
ἐ λθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου,
γενηθήτω τ ὸ θέλημά σου, ὡ ς ἐ ν ο ὐ ραν ῷ κα ὶ ἐ π ὶ γής.
Τ ὸ ν ἄ ρτον ἡ μ ῶ ν τ ὸ ν ἐ πιούσιον δ ὸ ς ἡ μ ῖ ν σήμερον.
Κα ὶ ἄ φες ἡ μ ῖ ν τ ὰ ὀ φειλήματα ἡ μ ῶ ν,
ὡ ς κα ὶ ἡ με ῖ ς ἀ φίεμεν το ῖ ς ὀ φειλέταις ἡ μ ῶ ν.
Κα ὶ μ ὴ ε ἰ σενέγκ ῃ ς ἡ μ ᾶ ς ε ἰ ς πειρασμόν,
ἀ λλ ὰ ρυσαι ἡ μ ᾶ ς ἀ π ὸ του πονηρου.

By- Latin:

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 dimite nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem,
Sed libera nos a malo.

In English (Catholic liturgical version)

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Why did God Himself give a special prayer?

“Only God Himself can allow people to call God Father. He granted this right to people, making them sons of God. And despite the fact that they withdrew from Him and were in extreme anger against Him, He granted oblivion of insults and the sacrament of grace.”

(St. Cyril of Jerusalem)

How Christ taught the apostles to pray

The Lord's Prayer is given in the Gospels in two versions, more extensive in the Gospel of Matthew and brief in the Gospel of Luke. The circumstances under which Christ pronounces the text of the prayer are also different. In the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord's Prayer is part of Sermon on the Mount. Evangelist Luke writes that the apostles turned to the Savior: “Lord! Teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples” (Luke 11:1).

“Our Father” in the home prayer rule

The Lord's Prayer is part of the daily prayer rule and reads like during Morning prayers, so also Prayers for the future sleep. Full text prayers are given in Prayer Books, Canons and other collections of prayers.

For those who are especially busy and cannot devote much time to prayer, Rev. Seraphim of Sarov gave a special rule. “Our Father” is also included in it. In the morning, afternoon and evening you need to read “Our Father” three times, “Virgin Mother of God” three times and “I Believe” once. For those who, due to various circumstances, cannot follow this small rule, Rev. Seraphim advised reading it in any position: during classes, while walking, and even in bed, presenting the basis for this as the words of Scripture: “whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

There is a custom to read “Our Father” before meals along with other prayers (for example, “The eyes of all trust in You, O Lord, and You give them food in due season, You open Your generous hand and fulfill every animal’s good will”).