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The Church of the Pater Noster (French: Église du Pater Noster) is a Roman Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. It is part of a Carmelite monastery, also known as the Sanctuary of the Eleona. The Church of the Pater Noster stands next to the ruins of the 4th-century Byzantine Church of Eleona. The ruins of the Eleona ...
In 3rd century Roman Egypt, the Coptic Rite Desert Fathers in Scetes carried pebbles in pouches to count their praying of the Psalms. [3] The Pater Noster Cord, however, originated in the 8th century Celtic Church in Gaelic Ireland as a means to count the recitation of the one hundred and fifty Psalms in the Christian Bible, which are incorporated into the fixed prayer times of Christianity. [5]
At-Tur Church of the Pater Noster in At-Tur. At-Tur (Arabic: الطور, lit. 'The Mount'; [1] Hebrew: א-טור) is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, [2] occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
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.
Pater Noster, a 1993 Finnish drama film directed by Veikko Aaltonen; Paternoster lift, a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building; Paternoster beads, used in Christianity to recite the psalms; Paternoster (surname), a surname
Across the street from the chapel is a Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Ascension with a small church built between 1987 and 1992. [17] [better source needed] South of the Ascension Chapel is the monastery containing the remains of the Constantinian Eleona Church and the 19th-century Church of the Pater Noster.
The Melkite Church serves the largest number of Catholics. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem is the main Roman Catholic institution in Israel, and it is responsible for the pastoral care of Roman Catholics in Israel , Palestine , and Jordan .
The oldest set of prayer beads in Western Christianity, the Pater Noster cord, traditionally contains 150 beads for the 150 Psalms in the Bible, though Pater Noster cords of 50 beads have been made that are prayed through thrice. Roman Catholics came to use the Rosary (Latin "rosarium", meaning "rose garden") with 59 beads.