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The Lord's Prayer (Le Pater Noster), by James Tissot. The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father (Greek: Πάτερ ἡμῶν, Latin: Pater Noster), is a central Christian prayer attributed to Jesus.
Luke's very similar prayer at Luke 11:2-4 far more radically has simply Father, rather than our Father, a usage unheard of in Jewish literature of the period. Matthew's our Father makes the relationship somewhat more distant, and more acceptable to Jewish sensibilities. The word translated as father is abba. This is a somewhat informal term ...
Each line of the prayer begins with the words "Avinu Malkeinu" ["Our Father, Our King"] and is then followed by varying phrases, mostly supplicatory. There is often a slow, chanting, repetitive aspect to the melody to represent the pious pleading within the prayer. There is a wide variation of the order of the verses in different communities.
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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 1892 U.S. BCP [15] OUR Father who art in heaven,
In English, while being aware of the use 'the Lord's Prayer', I have always known it as the 'Our Father'. Horses/courses :) Skittle 19:33, 23 August 2007 (UTC) "Unser Vater ..." is more recent, used in some Reformed churches, but less common in everyday reference. The Lord's Prayer itself is called "das Vaterunser", one copulative compound word ...
"Our Father, Thou in Heaven Above" is a Lutheran Christian hymn based on The Lord's Prayer originally written in German in 1539 by Martin Luther and translated in 1863 into English by Catherine Winkworth.
Kyrie XI ("orbis factor")—a fairly ornamented setting of the Kyrie in Gregorian chant—from the Liber Usualis. Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison (/ ˈ k ɪr i. eɪ ɛ ˈ l eɪ. i s ɒ n / KEER-ee-ay el-AY-eess-on; Ancient Greek: Κύριε ἐλέησον ...