He hung them on the wall by the side of his bed, and he was still to be heard every evening reciting the
Lord's Prayer, in incomprehensible words and in a slow, fervent tone, as he had heard his old father do at the head of all the kneeling family, big and little, on every evening of his life.
Becuz when they mumble they're saying the
Lord's Prayer backards."
Like the fabled rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly reading the
Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years, and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his noble heels.
So far, owing to great care on my part, they think of God as a kind of walrus; but now that my back's turned--Ridley," she demanded, swinging round upon her husband, "what shall we do if we find them saying the
Lord's Prayer when we get home again?"
If the change that you must see in me after so long an absence--must see, for I, upon whom it has come by slow and hard degrees, see it and know it well--will not move you to pity, let the knowledge that bread; not the daily bread of the
Lord's Prayer, which, as it is offered up in cities like this, is understood to include half the luxuries of the world for the rich, and just as much coarse food as will support life for the poor--not that, but bread, a crust of dry hard bread, is beyond my reach today--let that have some weight with you, if nothing else has.'
She refused to follow the school's directive and recited the
Lord's Prayer anyway.
ONE prayer, which the majority of Christians so often say,privately or corporately, is that which Jesus taught to His disciples -The
Lord's Prayer.
We eavesdrop on words uttered towards eternity, we hear the silent whispers of God's response to his Son.Today we consider the
Lord's Prayer. Next week Jesus' other great eternal prayer in John chapter 17.
For just shy of 2,000 years, Christians of all flavors have prayed the
Lord's Prayer. Thomas O'Loughlin author of the book, "The Didache: A Window on the Earliest Christians," writes, "It is one of the few elements in Christians' worship today where one can get widespread agreement (more or less) about what to do or say: at the suggestion that a group recite the
Lord's Prayer, most will both agree to the suggestion and be able to say it." (Page 76).
I prayed as I had never prayed before, reciting the
Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm a hundred times perhaps until I was intubated and placed under general anesthesia.
As a Catholic, I don't agree with Pope Francis' decision to change some words of the
Lord's Prayer.
THE Pope has changed the wording of the
Lord's Prayer, claiming the English translation implies it is God who leads people into temptation and not Satan.