In Christianity, the “Our Father” prayer in traces hits roots back to Jesus’ preaching and practice, according to virtually all scholars. Catholics say this prayer together at every Mass ...

Simone continues by exploring how the prayer begins: “Our Father.” He explains the characteristics that Jesus captures in his use of “father.” He also identifies some other divine images described in ...

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious, Adorable One. According to Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, so begins the prayer that Jesus taught us.Not only was Ms. Eddy’s use of ...

Father Jeffrey Kirby shows readers what those two words — “Our Father” — really signify for our spiritual lives and how the other seven tenets, or principles, of the Lord’s Prayer relate.

With that in mind, Origen reminds us that our prayer is always in Jesus rather than to Jesus. Then, as now, plenty of people were in the habit of chatting to Jesus as a friend—which is fine in its way ...

If you set out to craft a prayer at odds with contemporary Western values, you could not do much better than the Lord’s Prayer. The seven petitions that Jesus taught his disciples to pray (Matt ...

In his new book, "Our Father: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer," Pope Francis offers his insights into some of Jesus’s most profound words. In this excerpt from the book, the Pope discusses ...

The Our Father is perhaps the most famous Christian prayer. The magnitude of this prayer can feel overwhelming. These are words given to us by Jesus, who prefaced them by saying, “This is how ...

Instead of saying, "Lead us not into temptation," Catholics will say, Do not let us fall into temptation" during the Lord's Prayer, or Our Father.

In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus calls his divided followers to pursue unity as the family of God. The church today is divided, polarized by the many social and political factions vying for our ...

During a meeting of major players in the Anglican Church, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell suggested that the words of the "Our Father," Christianity’s most prominent prayer, may be ...