Prayer Our Father in heaven. What is the power of the Orthodox prayer “Our Father who art in heaven”
The “Our Father” prayer is the main one for all Orthodox Christians and at the same time the simplest and most necessary. She alone replaces all others.
Text of the prayer on Church Slavonic language in modern spelling
Our Father, who art in heaven!
Hallowed be Thy name,
may your kingdom come,
Thy will be done
as in heaven and on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts,
just as we also leave our debtors;
and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
The most famous prayer and its history
The Lord's Prayer is mentioned twice in the Bible - in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is believed that the Lord Himself gave it to people when they asked for words to pray. This episode is described by the evangelists. This means that even during Jesus’ earthly life, those who believed in Him could know the words of the Lord’s Prayer.
The Son of God, having chosen his words, suggested to all believers how to begin prayer so that it would be heard, how to lead a righteous life in order to be worthy of God’s mercy.
They entrust themselves to the will of the Lord, because only He alone knows what a person really needs. “Daily bread” does not mean simple food, but everything that is needed for life.
Likewise, “debtors” mean simple sinful people. Sin itself is a debt to God that must be atoned for by repentance and good deeds. People trust in God, ask to forgive their sins, and themselves promise to forgive their neighbors. To do this, with the help of the Lord, one must avoid temptations, that is, temptations with which the devil himself “confuses” in order to destroy humanity.
But prayer is not so much about asking. It also contains gratitude as a symbol of honoring the Lord.
How to recite the Lord's Prayer correctly
This prayer is read upon awakening from sleep and for the coming sleep, since it is included in mandatory in the morning and evening rule - a set of prayers for daily reading.
The “Our Father” certainly sounds during Divine Liturgy. Usually believers in churches sing it in chorus together with the priest and singers.
This solemn singing is followed by the presentation of the Holy Gifts - the body and Blood of Christ for the sacrament of communion. At the same time, parishioners kneel before the shrine.
It is also customary to read it before every meal. But to modern man There's no time all the time. However, Christians should not neglect their prayer duties. Therefore, it is permissible to read a prayer at any convenient moment, both while walking and even while lying in bed, as long as nothing distracts from the prayerful mood.
The main thing is to do this with awareness of the meaning, sincerely, and not just pronounce it mechanically. Literally from the first words addressed to God, believers feel security, humility and peace of mind. This state continues after reading the last prayer words.
Many famous theologians, such as John Chrysostom and Ignatius Brianchaninov, interpreted the “Our Father”. Their works provide extensive, detailed descriptions. Those who are interested in issues of faith should definitely familiarize themselves with them.
Many who have recently crossed the threshold of the temple, and are literally taking their first steps along the steps of the ladder of Orthodoxy, complain about the lack of understanding of prayers in the Old Church Slavonic language.
For such cases there is a translation into modern Russian. This option will be clear to everyone. But as practice shows, over time, incomprehensible words will become clearer, and worship will be perceived as a special art with its own style, its own language and traditions.
IN short text In the Lord's Prayer, all Divine wisdom fits into a few lines. There is a great meaning hidden in her, and everyone finds in her words something very personal: consolation in sorrows, help in endeavors, joy and grace.
Text of the prayer in Russian
Synodal translation of the prayer into modern Russian:
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.
Russian Bible Society Translation from 2001:
Our Father in Heaven,
Let Your name be glorified,
Let Your kingdom come
Let Your will be fulfilled on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive those who owe us.
Don't put us to the test
but protect us from the Evil One.
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 situation. It is universal - it is read at every church liturgy. It is customary to offer it in honor of thanking 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 ordinary reading. As church leaders say, it’s better not to say this prayer at all, than to read simply because you have to.
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 of our lives. That 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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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.
People, Public DomainAccording to the Gospel, Jesus Christ gave it to his disciples in response to a request to teach them prayer. Quoted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke:
“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. Amen". (Matt. 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 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” (Luke 11:2-4)
Slavic translations (Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic)
| Archangel Gospel (1092) | Ostrog Bible (1581) | Elizabethan Bible (1751) | Elizabethan Bible (1751) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our eyes like you are on nbskh. May I be humbled by your name. may your kingdom come. May you please. ꙗko on nbsi and on earth. our daily bread (daily) give us a day. (give us every day). and leave us our debts (sins). But we also left him as our debtor. and do not lead us into attack. spare us the hostility. Because yours is the kingdom. and power and glory otsa and sna and stgo dha forever. amen. | Just like ours and yours on the nbse, may Thy name stand, may Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, ѧko in nbsi and in ꙁєmli. Give us our daily bread and leave us our long debts, Who and we will remain our debtor and don’t lead us into misfortune but also add it to Ѡтъ лукаваго. | Who is ours and who art in heaven, may Your name shine, may your kingdom come, Thy will be done, Like in heaven and on earth, Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, We too will leave him as our debtor, and do not lead us into misfortune, but deliver us from the evil one. | Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, may your kingdom come, Thy will be done as in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we also leave our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. |
Russian translations
| Synodal translation (1860) | Synodal translation (in post-reform spelling) | Good news (translation by RBO, 2001) |
|---|---|---|
Our Father who art in heaven! | Our Father who art in heaven! | Our Father in Heaven, |
Story
The Lord's Prayer is given in the Gospels in two versions, more extensive in and brief in the Gospel of Luke. The circumstances under which Jesus pronounces the text of the prayer are also different. In the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord's Prayer is included in the Sermon on the Mount, while in Luke, Jesus gives this prayer to the disciples in response to a direct request to “teach them to pray.”
A version of the Gospel of Matthew became widespread in the Christian world as the main Christian prayer, and the use of the Lord's Prayer as a prayer dates back to the earliest Christian times. The text of Matthew is reproduced in the Didache, the oldest monument of Christian writing of a catechetical nature (late 1st - beginning of the 2nd century), and the Didache gives instructions to say prayer three times a day.
Biblical scholars agree that the original version of the prayer in the Gospel of Luke was significantly shorter; subsequent copyists supplemented the text at the expense of the Gospel of Matthew, as a result of which the differences were gradually erased. Mainly, these changes in the text of Luke occurred in the period after the Edict of Milan, when church books were massively rewritten due to the destruction of a significant part of Christian literature during the persecution of Diocletian. The medieval Textus Receptus contains almost identical text in the two Gospels.
One of the important differences in the texts of Matthew and Luke is the doxology that concludes the text of Matthew - “For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen,” which is missing from Luke. Most of the best and oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew do not contain this phrase, and biblical scholars do not consider it part of original text Matthew, but the addition of doxology was made very early, which proves the presence of a similar phrase (without mention of the Kingdom) in the Didache. This doxology has been used since early Christian times in the liturgy and has Old Testament roots (cf. 1 Chron. 29:11-13).
Differences in the texts of the Lord's Prayer sometimes arose due to the desire of translators to emphasize different aspects of polysemantic concepts. So in the Vulgate the Greek ἐπιούσιος (Ts.-Slav. and Russian “daily”) in the Gospel of Luke is translated into Latin as “cotidianum” (everyday), and in the Gospel of Matthew “supersubstantialem” (super-essential), which directly indicates on Jesus as the Bread of Life.
Theological interpretation of prayer
Many theologians have turned to the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. There are known interpretations of John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ephraim the Syrian, Maximus the Confessor, John Cassian and others. Written and general work, based on the interpretations of ancient theologians (for example, the work of Ignatius (Brianchaninov)).
Orthodox theologians
The Long Orthodox Catechism writes, “The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer that our Lord Jesus Christ taught to the apostles and which they passed on to all believers.” He distinguishes in it: invocation, seven petitions and doxology.
- Invocation - “Our Father who art in heaven!”
Faith in Jesus Christ and the grace of man’s rebirth through the sacrifice of the cross gives Christians the ability to call God Father. Cyril of Jerusalem writes:
“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.”
- Petitions
The indication “he who is in heaven” is necessary in order to, starting to pray, “leave everything earthly and corruptible and lift up the mind and heart to the Heavenly, Eternal and Divine.” It also indicates the location of God.
According to Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov), “The petitions that make up the Lord’s Prayer are petitions for spiritual gifts acquired for humanity through redemption. There is no word in prayer about the carnal, temporary needs of a person.”
- “hallowed be thy name” John Chrysostom writes that these words mean that believers should first of all ask for “the glory of the Heavenly Father.” The Orthodox Catechism indicates: “The Name of God is holy and, without a doubt, holy in itself,” and at the same time can “still be holy in people, that is, His eternal holiness can appear in them.” Maximus the Confessor points out: “We sanctify the name of our heavenly Father by grace when we mortify the lust attached to matter and cleanse ourselves from corrupting passions.”
- “Thy Kingdom come” The Orthodox Catechism notes that the Kingdom of God “comes hidden and inward. The Kingdom of God will not come with observance (in a noticeable manner).” Regarding the impact of the feeling of the Kingdom of God on a person, Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov) writes: “He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself becomes alien to a world hostile to God. He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself can desire, out of true love for his neighbors, that the Kingdom of God will open in all of them.”
- “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” With this, the believer expresses that he asks God so that everything that happens in his life does not happen according to his at will, but as it pleases God.
- “Give us this day our daily bread” In the Orthodox Catechism, “daily bread” is “the bread necessary in order to exist or live,” but “the soul’s daily bread” is “the word of God and the Body and Blood Christ's." In Maximus the Confessor, the word “today” (this day) is interpreted as the present age, that is, the earthly life of a person.
- “forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors.” Debts in this petition mean human sins. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) explains the need to forgive others their “debts” by saying that “Forgiving our neighbors of their sins before us, their debts, is our own need: without doing this, we will never acquire a mood capable of accepting atonement.”
- “Do not lead us into temptation” In this petition, believers ask God how to prevent them from being tempted, and if, according to the will of God, they should be tested and purified through temptation, then God would not completely give them over to temptation and not allow them to fall.
- “Deliver us from evil” In this petition, the believer asks God to deliver him from all evil and especially “from the evil of sin and from the evil suggestions and slander of the spirit of evil - the devil.”
- Doxology - “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
The doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer is contained so that the believer, after all the petitions contained in it, gives due respect to God.
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Our Father, who art in heaven!Hallowed be Thy name,
may your kingdom come,
Thy will be done
as 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.
Text of the Lord's Prayer in Russian
Our Father who art in heaven!
Hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Bible (Matthew 6:9-13)
Text of the Lord's Prayer in Church Slavonic
Our Father who art in heaven,
let Your name shine,
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,
skin and we become our debtor,
and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
[for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages]
Church Slavonic text of prayer according to the Ostrog Bible of 1581
What is ours like you on n[e]b[e]se[x],
May Thy name be with Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on n[e]b[e]si and on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts,
We too leave our debtor
and don’t lead us into harm
but deliver on [s] the evil one.
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Lord's 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.
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 Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Prayer "Our Father": full text in Russian with comments
“When you pray, go into your room and shut your door,
pray to your Father who is in secret...” (Matthew 6:6).
Prayer has always been a sacrament of turning to God. The Lord's Prayer: in Russian in full - a conversation that every person has with the Lord. But few people know that prayer, like any real work, requires a good mental attitude.
How to properly tune in to prayer?
- Start praying with a light heart, which means forgive everyone the offenses they have caused you. Then your requests will be heard by the Lord.
- Before reading the prayer, say to yourself: I am a sinner!
- Begin your conversation with the Lord humbly, thoughtfully, and with specific intention.
- Remember that everything that exists in this world is one God.
- Ask permission from the one you are addressing in prayer so that you can bring him praise or sincere thanks.
- The requests of prayer will be satisfied if you can get rid of resentment, hostility, hatred of the world and sincerely feel the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven.
- During prayer or at a service, do not stand distracted or dreamy.
- Praying with a satiated belly and spirit will not bring you what you want, be light.
- Be prepared in advance: any prayer is not a request, but a glorification of the Lord. Get ready for repentance in a conversation with the Almighty.
Smart prayer is always good. This is when you can say it out loud, without searching for the right words, hesitating or hesitating. You need to pray in such a way that the right words themselves “flowed” from the soul.
Often, this is not so easy to do. After all, first, for this you need to live it in your soul and heart, only then express it in words. When this is difficult, you can turn to God mentally. In different circumstances, a person is free to do as he pleases.
Text of the Lord's Prayer
Below you will find a modern reading of the Lord's Prayer in several versions. Some people choose Old Church Slavonic, others modern Russian. This is truly everyone's right. The main thing is that words addressed to God with sincerity will always find a response and calm the body and soul of a child who timidly utters the words, a young man or a mature husband.
In Church Slavonic
Thy will be done
Our bread is on our handś Give us this day;
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 Thine 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 our daily bread;
And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every debtor to us;
Otherwise lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer
Everyone has heard the text of the prayer and many know it from early childhood. There is no family in Russia where the grandmother or grandfather, or perhaps the parents themselves, did not whisper words addressed to God before bedtime at the baby’s crib or did not teach when it is necessary to say it. Growing up, we did not forget it, but for some reason we said it out loud less and less. But, probably, in vain! “Our Father” is a kind of standard and example of the correct spiritual dispensation and one of important prayers Church, which is called the Lord's.
Few people know that a small text contains the grandiose meaning of life’s priorities and all the rules of prayer.
Three parts of prayer
This unique text has three semantic parts: Invocation, Petition, Doxology. Let's try to understand this in more detail together.
1st Summoning
Do you remember what they called their father in Rus'? Father! And this means that when we pronounce this word, we completely trust our father’s will, believe in justice, accept everything that he considers necessary. We have neither a shadow of doubt nor persistence. We show that we are ready to be his children both on earth and in heaven. Thus, moving away from worldly everyday worries to heaven, where we see His presence.
1st Petition
No one teaches that we must glorify the Lord with words. His name is already sacred. But true believers, before other people, need to spread His glory with their deeds, thoughts, and actions.
2nd Petition
It is, in fact, a continuation of the first. But we add a request for the coming of the Kingdom of God, which will deliver man from sin, temptation, and death.
3rd Petition
“Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth”
We know that on the road to the Kingdom of God many temptations await us. So we ask the Lord to strengthen our strength in faith, in submission to His will.
The glorification of God’s Name actually ends with three petitions.
What texts of the Lord's prayers are in Russian?
4th Petition
This and the next three parts will contain requests from those praying. Everything is here: we ask about the soul, spirit and body and speak without hesitation. We dream for every day of life, ordinary, like most. Requests for food, housing, clothing... However, these requests should not occupy the main place in the conversation with God. Limiting in the simple and carnal, it is better to build appeals about spiritual bread.
5th Petition
The allegory of this petition is simple: we ask for our own pardon, because by entering into prayer we have already forgiven others. It is better not to harbor anger against others first, and then ask the Lord for forgiveness for yourself.
6th Petition
Sin accompanies us all our lives. Someone learns to put a barrier in their path. Some people don't always succeed. So we ask the Lord for strength not to commit them, and only then we pray for the forgiveness of those who have committed them. And if the main culprit of all temptations is the devil, we ask you to deliver from him.
7th Petition
“But deliver us from the evil one” Man is weak and without the help of the Lord it is difficult to emerge victorious from the battle with the evil one. This is where Christ gives us instructions.
Doxology
Amen always means firm confidence that what is asked will come true without a doubt. And the triumph of the Lord’s power will again be revealed to the world.
A short prayer, a few sentences! But look how deep the message is: not blurred, not redundant, not talkative... Only the most valuable and important.
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While reading the Our Father, great calm and grace always descends on me. I read it every morning and at night. If suddenly you can’t pray, everything falls out of your hands all day, everything goes wrong. Either I react sharply at such moments, but I walk around nervously. And once you say the prayer, the day is going great, everything is going like clockwork. And this is not a one-time thing, it happens all the time.
The Lord's Prayer is the most important prayer available; it is in it that we turn to God, tell him our thoughts and feelings. During prayer, I always think about purity and faith. In general, it is necessary to believe in order to fully understand the prayer. Many do not understand the very meaning of prayer due to a lack of faith.
good and useful article! It's nice to read that at least something normal is being broadcast somewhere. The Lord's Prayer is the foundation of the foundations, all others are built on it, and until you realize it, you should not even think about any help from the saints. And only after faith settles in your soul, and you accept the words of prayer with all your soul, can you hope to be heard.
My grandmother taught me this prayer as a child, and as stated above in the commentary, this prayer is truly the basis of the foundations of our entire Orthodox faith! I am very grateful to my grandmother for instilling in me a love of reading and faith. Thanks to her, I have known this prayer by heart since I was six years old and always turn to it. Although now my grandmother is no longer here, the memory of her is always bright and warm in my heart!
It just makes my heart happy when I scroll through your site. My grandson helped me find prayers and, of course, the Lord’s Prayer is what I start my day with and how I end my day. And peace immediately sets in on the soul. Thank you for your bright and useful work!
Thank you for the detailed and intelligible analysis. I didn’t know that literally every line of this prayer contained such a deep meaning. Thank you
Our Father is probably the most beloved and main prayer everyone Orthodox Christian. I remember learning it with older sister as a child, I was probably six years old then. It was in the village, a terrible thunderstorm began, and grandmother told us to read the Our Father. Since I didn’t know a single prayer yet, my sister taught me. Since then I always read it, no matter what happens. Helps you calm down, put your thoughts in order, and find peace of mind.
Thank you very much! Very useful and necessary article with professional explanations.
to our time of troubles It’s hard on my soul..and Faith and Prayers help a lot...rulers change..and GOD always helps us sinners..
May my Lord forgive me for my thoughts, for I trust and believe in him alone. Explain to me how the Father can allow temptation, while in the prayer there is a particle “but” and a mention of the evil one. In my reading, I pronounce this phrase differently: “... Deliver me from temptations and put me on the path of truth. For yours is the Kingdom, power and will for all ages. Amen!
“...And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”...
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Our Father prayer text in Russian
“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 Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matt. 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.
Icon "Our Father" 1813
Our Father prayer text with accents
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.
Our Father text of prayer in Church Slavonic
Our Father, who art in heaven!
Hallowed be Thy name,
may your kingdom come,
Thy will be done
as in heaven and on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts,
just as we also leave our debtors;
and do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one
Icon “Our Father” from the Church of St. Gregory of Neocaesarea, 17th century.
Our Father prayer text in Greek
A page from the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus Bible, with the text of the Lord's Prayer.
Interpretation of the prayer “Our Father” by St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Our Father, who art in heaven
(Matt. 6:9). O great love of God! To those who withdrew from Him and were in extreme malice against Him, He granted such oblivion of insults and communion of grace that they also call Him Father: Our Father, Who art in heaven. Those can be heavens, which bear the image of the heavenly (1 Cor. 15:49), and in which God dwells and walks (2 Cor. 6:16).
The name of God is holy by nature, whether we say it or not. But since those who sin are sometimes defiled, according to this: by you My name is always blasphemed among the nations (Isaiah 52:5; Rom. 2:24). For this purpose, we pray that the name of God will be sanctified in us: not because it is as if, without being holy, it will begin to be holy, but because in us it becomes holy when we ourselves are sanctified and do what is worthy of shrine.
A pure soul can boldly say: Thy kingdom come. For whoever heard Paul saying: Let sin not reign in your dead body (Rom. 6:12), and whoever purifies himself in deed, and in thought, and in word; he can say to God: Thy kingdom come.
The divine and blessed Angels of God do the will of God, as David, chanting, said: Bless the Lord, all His Angels, mighty in strength, who do His word (Psalm 102:20). Therefore, when you pray, you say this in this meaning: just as Your will is done in the Angels, so may it be done in me on earth, Master!
Our common bread is not our daily bread. This Holy Bread is our daily bread: instead of saying, it is provided for the being of the soul. This bread does not enter into the belly, but comes out through the aphedron (Matthew 15:17): but it is divided into your entire composition, for the benefit of body and soul. And the word is spoken today instead for every day, as Paul said: until today it is spoken (Heb. 3:13).
And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors.
For we have many sins. Because we sin in word and thought, and do a lot of things worthy of condemnation. And if we say that there is no sin, we lie (1 John 1:8), as John says. So, God and I make a condition, praying to forgive our sins, just as we forgive our neighbors. So, considering what we receive instead of what, let us not hesitate and let us not put off forgiving each other. The insults that happen to us are small, easy and forgivable: but those that happen to God from us are great, and only require His love for mankind. So, be careful that for small and easy sins against you, you do not deny God’s forgiveness to yourself for your gravest sins.
And do not lead us into temptation (Lord)!
Is this what the Lord teaches us to pray about, so that we may not be tempted in the least? And how is it said in one place: a man is not skilled and is not skilled in eating (Sirach 34:10; Rom. 1:28)? and in another: have all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various temptations (James 1:2)? But to enter into temptation does not mean to be consumed by temptation? Because temptation is like a kind of stream that is difficult to cross. Consequently, those who, being in temptations, do not plunge into them, cross over like the most skillful swimmers, without being drowned by them; and those who are not like that, those who enter, plunge into them, as, for example, Judas, having entered into the temptation of the love of money, did not swim across, but, having immersed himself, he drowned physically and spiritually. Peter entered into the temptation of rejection: but, having entered, he did not get bogged down, but courageously swam, and was freed from temptation. Listen also in another place, how the whole face of the Saints gives thanks for deliverance from temptation: You have tempted us, O God, You have kindled us, as silver is liquified. You brought us into the net; you placed sorrow on our backbone. Thou hast raised up men upon our heads: thou hast passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us to rest (Psalm 65:10, 11, 12). Do you see them boldly rejoicing that they have passed and are not stuck? And you brought us out, saying, into rest (ibid., v. 12). For them to enter into rest means to be freed from temptation.
If the phrase: do not lead us into temptation meant the same thing as not being tempted at all, then I would not have given it, but deliver us from the evil one. The evil one is a resistant demon, from which we pray to get rid of. When the prayer is fulfilled, you say amen. Capturing through Amen, what it means, let everything be done that is contained in this God-given prayer.
The text is given from the edition: Works of our holy father Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem. Publication of the Australian-New Zealand Russian Diocese Orthodox Church Abroad, 1991. (Reprint from the publisher: M., Synodal Printing House, 1900.) pp. 336-339.
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 he speaks in Heaven, 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 it 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. Indeed, what harm comes from low kinship, when by heavenly kinship we are all united and no one has anything more than another: neither the rich more than the poor, nor the master more than the slave, nor the boss more than the subordinate, nor the king more than the warrior, nor the philosopher more than the barbarian, nor the wise more ignorant? God, who honored everyone equally to call Himself Father, through this gave everyone the same nobility.
So, having mentioned this nobility, oh highest gift, about the unity of honor and about love between brothers, having taken the listeners away from earth and placed them in heaven - let's see what Jesus finally commands to pray for. 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 be unworthy of this nobility and show zeal equal to a gift. However, the Savior was not satisfied with this name, but added other sayings.
He says. To ask for nothing before the glory of the Heavenly Father, but to esteem everything below His praise—this is a prayer worthy of one who calls God Father! 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). And the Seraphim glorify God and cry out: Holy, Holy, Holy! (Isa. 66, 10). So, let him be holy means let him be glorified. 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.
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.
This is what the Apostle Paul desired every day, which is why he said: we ourselves, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, and we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons and the redemption of our body (Rom. 8:23). He who has such love can neither become proud among the blessings of this life, nor despair among the sorrows, but, like one living in heaven, is free from both extremes.
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. One must desire, He says, heaven and heavenly things. However, even before reaching heaven, He commanded us to make the earth heaven and, living on it, to behave in everything as if we were in heaven, and to pray to the Lord about this. Indeed, the fact that we live on earth does not hinder us in the least from achieving the perfection of the heavenly Forces. But it is possible, even if you live here, to do everything as if we lived in heaven.
So, the meaning of the Savior’s words is this: how 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 (because it is said: they who do His word are mighty in strength - Ps. 102:20) - so grant us, people, not to do Your will halfway, but to do everything as You please.
Do you see? – Christ taught us to humble ourselves when he showed that virtue depends not only on our zeal, but also on heavenly grace, and at the same time he commanded each of us, during prayer, to take care of the universe. He did not say: “Thy will be done in me” or “in us,” but throughout the whole earth - that is, so that all error would be destroyed and truth would be implanted, so that all malice would be driven out and virtue would return, and thus, nothing there was no difference between heaven and earth. If this is so, He says, then what is above will not differ in any way from what is above, although they are different in properties; then the earth will show us other angels.
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? This is what the Savior commanded further in his sermon: “Do not worry,” he says, “about tomorrow (Matthew 6:34). He wants us to always be girded and inspired by faith and to yield no more to nature than necessary needs require of us.
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 inexpressibly 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.
What is especially worthy of note is that in each of the above petitions He mentioned all the virtues, and with this last petition He also includes rancor. And the fact that the name of God is sanctified through us is an undoubted proof of a perfect life; and the fact that His will is done shows the same thing; and the fact that we call God the Father is a sign of an immaculate life. All this already implies that we should leave anger at those who insult us; however, the Savior was not satisfied with this, but, wanting to show how much concern He has for eradicating rancor among us, he especially speaks about this and after prayer recalls not another commandment, but the commandment of forgiveness, saying: For if you forgive people their sins, then Your heavenly Father will forgive you (Matthew 6:14).
Thus, this absolution initially depends on us, and the judgment pronounced on us lies in our power. So that none of the unreasonable, being condemned for a great or small crime, has the right to complain about the court, the Savior makes you, the most guilty one, a judge over Himself and, as it were, says: what kind of judgment do you pronounce on yourself, I am the same judgment I will say about you; if you forgive your brother, then you will receive the same benefit from me - although this latter is actually much more more important than the first. You forgive another because you yourself need forgiveness, and God forgives, without needing anything; you forgive your fellow servant, and God forgives your slave; you are guilty of countless sins, but God is sinless
On the other hand, the Lord shows His love for mankind by the fact that even though He could forgive you all your sins without your doing, He wants to benefit you in this too, in everything to give you occasions and incentives to meekness and love of mankind - drives out of you bestiality, quenches your anger and in every possible way wants to unite you with your members. What do you say to this? Is it that you have unjustly suffered some kind of evil from your neighbor? If so, then, of course, your neighbor has sinned against you; and if you have suffered justly, then this does not constitute sin in him. But you also approach God with the intention of receiving forgiveness for similar and even much greater sins. Moreover, even before forgiveness, you never know, when you have already learned to keep within yourself human soul and instructed in meekness? Moreover, a great reward will await you in the next century, because then you will not be required to account for any of your sins. So, what kind of punishment will we deserve if, even after receiving such rights, we ignore our salvation? Will the Lord listen to our requests when we ourselves do not spare ourselves where everything is in our power?
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 to 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.
When the Savior says: Thine is the Kingdom, he shows that our enemy is also subordinate to God, although, apparently, he still resists by God’s permission. And he is from among the slaves, although condemned and rejected, and therefore does not dare to attack any of the slaves without first receiving power from above. And what do I say: not one of the slaves? He did not even dare to attack pigs until the Savior himself commanded; nor over the herds of sheep and oxen, until he received power from above.
And strength, says Christ. So, even though you were very weak, you must nevertheless dare, having such a King, who through you can easily accomplish all glorious deeds, and glory forever, Amen,
(Interpretation of St. Matthew the Evangelist
Creations T. 7. Book. 1. SP6., 1901. Reprint: M., 1993. P. 221-226)
Complete collection and description: Our Father who art in heaven is a prayer for the spiritual life of a believer.
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.
“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 this day; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive debtors ours; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever” (Matthew 6:9-13).
In Greek:
In 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 dimitte 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 to 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 the Sermon on the Mount. Evangelist Luke writes that the apostles turned to the Savior: “Lord, teach us to pray, 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 is read as during Morning prayers, so also Prayers for the future sleep. The full text of the prayers is 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”).
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Our Father, who art in heaven!
1. Hallowed be thy name.
2. Thy kingdom come.
3. Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth.
4. Give us this day our daily bread.
5. And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors.
6. And do not lead us into temptation.
7. But deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Our heavenly Father!
1. Hallowed be thy name.
2. Thy kingdom come.
3. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
4. Give us this day our daily bread.
5. And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.
6. And do not allow us to be tempted.
7. But deliver us from evil.
Because to You belongs the kingdom, the power and the glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Father - Father; Izhe- Which; Who art thou in heaven– Which is in heaven, or heavenly; Yes– let; hallowed- glorified: like- How; in heaven- in the sky; urgent– necessary for existence; give me a shout– give; today- today, for the present day; leave it- sorry; debts– sins; our debtor– to those people who have sinned against us; temptation– temptation, danger of falling into sin; sly- everything cunning and evil, that is, the devil. An evil spirit is called the devil.
This prayer 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. Therefore, this prayer is the most important prayer of all.
In this prayer we turn to God the Father, the first Person of the Holy Trinity.
It is divided into: invocation, seven petitions, or 7 requests, and doxology.
Summoning: 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 spiritual, invisible sky, and not that visible blue vault that is spread above us, and which we call “sky”.
Request 1: Hallowed be your name, that is, help us to live righteously, holyly and glorify Your name with our holy deeds.
2nd: 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.
3rd: 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, 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.
4th: 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 honest Blood in the sacrament of holy communion, without which there is no salvation, no eternal life.
The Lord commanded us to ask for ourselves not wealth, not luxury, but only the most necessary things, and to rely on God in everything, remembering that He, as a Father, always cares and takes care of us.
5th: And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors., 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, but we often turn all this into sin and evil and become “debtors” before God. And so, 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.
6th: And do not lead us into temptation. Temptation is a state when something or someone draws us to sin, tempts us to do something lawless and bad. So, we ask - do not allow us to fall into temptation, which we do not know how to endure; help us overcome temptations when they happen.
7th: 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.
Doxology: For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Since to You, our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, belongs the kingdom, and the power, and the eternal glory. All this is true, truly so.
QUESTIONS: Why is this prayer called the Lord's Prayer? Who are we addressing in this prayer? How does she share? How to translate in Russian: Who art thou in heaven? How to convey in your own words the 1st petition: Hallowed be Thy Name? 2nd: Thy kingdom come? 3rd: Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth? 4th: Give us our daily bread this day? 5th: And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors? 6th: And lead us not into temptation? 7th: But deliver us from evil? What does the word: amen mean?
Lord's 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.
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 Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Our Father in heaven prayer
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 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Father - Father (appeal is a form of the vocative case). Who art in heaven - existing (living) in Heaven, that is, Heavenly ( others like it- which). Yesi– form of the verb being in the 2nd person singular. Present tense numbers: on modern language we're talking you are, and in Church Slavonic - you are. Literal translation of the beginning of the prayer: O our Father, He who is in Heaven! Any literal translation is not entirely accurate; words: Father Dry in Heaven, Heavenly Father - more closely convey the meaning of the first words of the Lord's Prayer. Let him be holy - may it be holy and glorified. Like in heaven and on earth - both in heaven and on earth (like - How). Urgent- necessary for existence, for life. Give it - give it. Today- Today. Like- How. From the evil one- from evil (words crafty, wickedness– derivatives from the words “bow”: something indirect, curved, crooked, like a bow. There are more Russian word"falsehood")
This prayer is called the Lord’s Prayer because our Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave it to His disciples and all people:
It happened that when He was praying in one place and stopped, one of His disciples said to Him: Lord! Teach us to pray!
– When you pray, say: 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 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Luke 11:1-4).
Our Father who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done both on earth and 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. Amen (Matt. 6:9-13).
By reading the Lord's Prayer daily, let us learn what the Lord requires of us: it indicates both our needs and our main responsibilities.
Our Father... In these words we still do not ask for anything, we only cry out, turn to God and call him father.
“Saying this, we confess God, the Ruler of the universe, as our Father - and thereby we also confess that we have been removed from the state of slavery and appropriated to God as His adopted children.”
(Philokalia, vol. 2)
...Who art thou in Heaven... With these words, we express our readiness to turn away in every possible way from attachment to earthly life as wandering and separating us far from our Father and, on the contrary, to strive with the greatest desire for the region in which our Father dwells...
“Having reached such a high degree of sons of God, we must burn with such filial love for God that we no longer seek our own benefits, but with all desire desire the glory of Him, our Father, saying to Him: Hallowed be thy name,- by which we testify that all our desire and all our joy is the glory of our Father - may the glorious name of our Father be glorified, reverently honored and worshiped.”
Venerable John Cassian the Roman
Thy Kingdom come- that Kingdom “by which Christ reigns in the saints, when, after taking away power over us from the Devil and expelling passions from our hearts, God begins to reign in us through the fragrance of virtues - or that which at a predetermined time is promised to all the perfect, to all children God, when Christ says to them: Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matt. 25, 34).”
Venerable John Cassian the Roman
Words "Thy will be done" turn us to the Lord's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane: Father! Oh, that You would deign to carry this cup past Me! however, not my will, but yours be done (Luke 22:42).
Give us this day our daily bread. We ask for the granting of bread necessary for our subsistence, and not only large quantities, but only for this day... So, let’s learn to ask for the most necessary things for our life, but we won’t ask for everything leading to abundance and luxury, because we don’t know whether it’s enough for us. Let us learn to ask for bread and everything necessary only for this day, so that we do not become lazy in prayer and obedience to God. If we are alive the next day, we will ask for the same thing again, and so on all the days of our earthly life.
However, we must not forget the words of Christ that Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). It is even more important to remember other words of the Savior : I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world (John 6:51). Thus, Christ does not only mean something material, necessary for a person for earthly life, but also eternal, necessary for life in the Kingdom of God: Himself, offered in Communion.
Some holy fathers interpreted the Greek expression as “supra-essential bread” and attributed it only (or primarily) to the spiritual side of life; however, the Lord's Prayer embraces both earthly and heavenly meanings.
And forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors. The Lord Himself concluded this prayer with an explanation: For if you forgive people their sins, then your Heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive people their sins, then your Father will not forgive you your sins. (MF. 6, 14-15).
“The merciful Lord promises us forgiveness of our sins if we ourselves set an example of forgiveness to our brothers: leave it to us, just as we leave it. It is obvious that in this prayer only those who have forgiven their debtors can boldly ask for forgiveness. Whoever with all his heart does not let go of his brother who sins against him, with this prayer he will ask for himself not mercy, but condemnation: for if this prayer of his is heard, then in accordance with his example, what else should follow, if not inexorable wrath and indispensable punishment ? Judgment without mercy for those who show no mercy (James 2:13).”
Venerable John Cassian the Roman
Here sins are called debts, because by faith and obedience to God we must fulfill His commandments, do good, and shun evil; is that what we do? By not doing the good we should do, we become debtors to God.
This expression of the Lord’s Prayer is best explained by Christ’s parable about the man who owed the king ten thousand talents (Matthew 18:23-35).
And do not lead us into temptation. Bringing to mind the words of the apostle: Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because, having been tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. (James 1:12), we should understand these words of prayer not like this: “do not let us ever be tempted,” but like this: “do not let us be overcome by temptation.”
When tempted, no one should say: God is tempting me; because God is not tempted by evil and does not tempt anyone Himself, but everyone is tempted by being carried away and deceived by his own lust; lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin that is committed gives birth to death (James 1:13-15).
But deliver us from evil - that is, do not allow yourself to be tempted by the devil beyond our strength, but with give relief to temptation, so that we can endure (1 Cor. 10:13).
Venerable John Cassian the Roman
The Greek text of the prayer, like Church Slavonic and Russian, allows us to understand the expression from the evil one and personally ( sly– the father of lies – the devil), and impersonally ( crafty- everything unrighteous, evil; evil). Patristic interpretations offer both understandings. Since evil comes from the devil, then, of course, the petition for deliverance from evil also contains a petition for deliverance from its culprit.
Prayer “Our Father, Who art in heaven”: text in Russian
There is no person who has not heard or does not know about the existence of the prayer “Our Father who art in heaven!” This is the most important prayer to which Christian believers around the world turn. The Lord's Prayer, as it is commonly called “Our Father,” is considered the key property of Christianity, the oldest prayer. It is given in two Gospels: from Matthew - in chapter six, from Luke - in chapter eleven. The version given by Matthew has gained great popularity.
In Russian, the text of the prayer “Our Father” exists in two versions - in modern Russian and in Church Slavonic. Because of this, many people mistakenly believe that in Russian there are 2 different prayers The Lord's. In fact, this opinion is fundamentally incorrect - both options are equivalent, and such a discrepancy occurred due to the fact that during the translation of ancient letters, “Our Father” was translated from two sources (the above-mentioned Gospels) differently.
From the story “Our Father, Who art in heaven!”
Biblical tradition says that the prayer “Our Father who art in heaven!” Jesus Christ himself taught the apostles God's Son. This event took place in Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives, on the territory of the Pater Noster temple. The text of the Lord's Prayer was imprinted on the walls of this of this temple in more than 140 languages of the world.
However, the fate of the Pater Noster temple was tragic. In 1187, after the capture of Jerusalem by the troops of Sultan Saladin, the temple was completely destroyed. Already in the 14th century, in 1342, a piece of a wall with an engraving of the prayer “Our Father” was found.
Later, in the 19th century, in the second half, thanks to the architect Andre Leconte, a church appeared on the site of the former Pater Noster, which subsequently passed into the hands of the female Catholic monastic order of the Discalced Carmelites. Since then, the walls of this church have been decorated every year with a new panel with the text of the main Christian heritage.
When and how is the Lord's Prayer said?
“Our Father” serves as an obligatory part of the daily prayer rule. Traditionally, it is customary to read it 3 times a day - in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening. Each time the prayer is said three times. After it, “To the Virgin Mary” (3 times) and “I Believe” (1 time) are read.
As Luke reports in his Gospel, Jesus Christ, before giving the Lord’s Prayer to the believers, said: “Ask, and it will be given to you.” This means that “Our Father” must be read before any prayer, and after that you can pray in your own words. When Jesus bequeathed it, he gave permission to call the Lord father, therefore, addressing the Almighty with the words “Our Father” (“Our Father”) is the complete right of all those who pray.
The Lord's Prayer, being the strongest and most important, unites believers, so it can be read not only within the walls of a religious institution, but also outside it. For those who, due to their busyness, are unable to devote due time to the pronunciation of “Our Father,” St. Seraphim of Sarov recommended reading it in every position and at every opportunity: before eating, in bed, during work or exercise, while walking and so on. In support of his point of view, Seraphim cited words from Scripture: “whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
When turning to the Lord with the help of “Our Father,” believers should ask for all people, and not just for themselves. The more often a person prays, the closer he becomes to the Creator. “Our Father” is a prayer that contains direct appeal to the Almighty. This is a prayer in which one can trace a departure from the vanity of the world, penetration into the very depths of the soul, detachment from a sinful earthly life. An indispensable condition when saying the Lord’s Prayer is aspiration to God with thoughts and heart.
Structure and Russian text of the prayer “Our Father”
“Our Father” has its own characteristic structure: at the very beginning there is an appeal to God, an appeal to him, then seven petitions are voiced, which are closely intertwined with each other, and everything ends with a doxology.
The text of the prayer “Our Father” in Russian is used, as indicated above, in two equivalent versions - Church Slavonic and modern Russian.
Church Slavonic version
With the Old Church Slavonic version of the sound of “Our Father” as follows:
Modern Russian version
In modern Russian, the “Our Father” is available in two versions - in the presentation of Matthew and in the presentation of Luke. The text from Matthew is the most popular. It sounds like this:
Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer is more abbreviated, does not contain doxology, and reads as follows:
A praying person can choose any of the available options for himself. Each of the texts of “Our Father” is a kind of personal conversation between the person praying and the Lord God. The Lord's Prayer is so strong, sublime and pure that after saying it, every person feels relief and peace.
The only prayer that I know by heart and read at any time. difficult situation in life. After it it really becomes easier, I become calm and feel a surge of strength, I find a solution to the problem faster.
This is the most powerful and main prayer that every person must know! My grandmother taught it to me as a child, and now I teach it to my children myself. If a person knows “Our Father,” the Lord will always be with him and will never leave him!
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