Our Father

The Our Father (also known by his name Latin Pater Noster or by phonetic corruption, "paternoster") is the prayer most common among Christians, whatever the denomination to which they belong, because it was taught by Jesus Christ himself to his apostles (after the New Testament ).

It is said by the Catholic and Orthodox (especially during every celebration of the Eucharist ), by the Protestant Lutheran and Reformed every religion. With the sacrament of baptism , this prayer is what unites most strongly the different Christian traditions: it is recited in ecumenical meetings. It is sometimes called Prayer Sunday.

Prayer given by Jesus, original versions

According to the New Testament , Jesus Christ gave the prayer in response to a question from the apostles how to pray: Jesus said, "When you pray, say:" Our Father ... "." The Gospels of Matthew (6: 9-13) and Luke (11: 2-4) and cite this prayer, with some differences between manuscripts.

The beginning of the Our Father has similarities with the Kaddish Jewish (prayer of sanctification of God's name), then it deviates and becomes a prayer without original example in the Old Testament.

The French text was adopted in 1966 by the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches for the Francophone world.

However, there remain other French versions. The best known are those used by the Catholics in their personal prayers between the ^seventeenth century and 1970 , employing the "vous" .

Comments on the translation of some phrases

Our Father

Daily Bread or "supersubstantial"

In the version of the Gospel of Matthew in the Vulgate is the phrase: "panem nostrum da nobis hodie supersubstantialem" (Mt 6:11) that differs from the version of the Gospel of Luke "da nobis panem nostrum cotidianum DIFCO. Both adjectives and supersubstantialis cotidianus translate yet both Greek epiousios ( Modern Greek : ), for which the word is etymologically more correct supersubstantial. Some Bibles published in the mainstream of Christian humanism and the Protestant translation supersubstantial use (eg. Lyon, Nicolas Petit, 1549).

Offenses

The Latin text, corresponding to the majority of Greek manuscripts, literally says "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors also." The French liturgical text, inspired other Greek manuscripts, said, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Other languages, like English, also chose to depart from the Latin text.

Temptation

In Latin, the phrase "And do our induction in tentationem" literally means: "And lead us not into temptation." The translation of this formula is a subject of debate among some Catholics since the last Council . The Orthodox have recently settled in 2004 and renounced to the ecumenical translation

The final doxology

The doxology final, "For thine is the kingdom, the power and glory, for ever and ever", was added to the prayer in the early days of the Church, although n 'appears not usually in the manuscripts of the Bible and note that it does not appear in the Revised Standard Version. Its use is attested from the ^first century version of the prayer that appears in the Didache , a brief instruction manual for converting to Christianity.

The Protestants generally recite the doxology as part of the Our Father.

Prayer

Pater in the Gregorian Chant

Original Greek

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