"The Lord's Prayer"

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This paper provides a full examination of "The Lord's Prayer". It explains its roots and how it evolved. The writer looks at the people responsible for its origin and popularity. It then discusses why the prayer can be considered to be the basis of all other prayers used in Christianity today.

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"The Lord's Prayer is the principal Christian prayer that Jesus Christ taught his followers, saying, "Pray then in this way." The prayer appears in Matthew 6: 9-13 and Luke 11: 2-4, and summarizes Jesus' teaching and stresses the concern of honoring God before that of meeting one's own needs and also reveals Christ's sense of a filial relationship with God. After the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church added a version of the doxology, 'For thine is the kingdom...,' to prayer when used in the Mass. The doxology was already current in Protestant liturgies, and is also present in some manuscripts of Matthew."

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