Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum. Advéniat regnum tuum. Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie, et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris. Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem, sed líbera nos a malo. 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Our Father is the one prayer Our Lord Himself composed and taught. When His disciples asked, "Lord, teach us to pray," He answered by giving them these words (Luke 11:1–4; Matthew 6:9–13). For this reason the Church calls it the Oratio Dominica, the "Lord’s Prayer," and honors it above every other: not a prayer men devised to reach God, but the very form of prayer that God, made man, placed on human lips.
The ancient writer Tertullian called it "the summary of the whole Gospel," and St. Augustine taught that whatever else we rightly ask, we ask within these words. It contains seven petitions. The first three look to God — that His name be hallowed, His kingdom come, His will be done. The last four turn to our own need — for daily bread, for forgiveness (bound to our own forgiving), for protection from temptation, and for deliverance from the evil one. The Fathers saw in the "daily bread" (in St. Matthew, a rare word meaning "supersubstantial") not only the food of the body but the Bread of the Eucharist.
In the traditional Roman Mass the Our Father is sung by the priest alone after the Canon, as the Church prepares for Communion. Catholics end the prayer at "deliver us from evil. Amen"; the doxology "For thine is the kingdom" is a later addition not found in the oldest manuscripts, though at Mass the priest expands the last petition in the prayer called the embolism ("Deliver us, we beseech thee, O Lord, from all evils…"). To pray the Our Father well, the saints agree, is to have learned the whole art of 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum.
Advéniat regnum tuum.
Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,
et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.
Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem, sed líbera nos a malo. 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.