Library › St Philaret of Moscow › Longer Catechism

Longer Catechism

St Philaret of Moscow, in Blackmore, 1845

Part 2, 3. On the Lord’s Prayer

Q. Is there not a prayer which may be termed the common Christian prayer, and pattern of all prayers?

A. Such is the Lord’s Prayer.

Q. What is the Lord’s Prayer?

A. A prayer which our Lord Jesus Christ taught the Apostles, and which they delivered to all believers.

Q. Repeat it.

A. Our Father, which art in heaven;

1. Hallowed be Thy Name;

2. Thy kingdom come;

3. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth;

4. Give us this day our bread for subsistence;

5. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;

6. And lead us not into temptation;

7. But deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Mat. vi. 9.. 13.

Q. In order the better to consider the Lord’s Prayer, how may we divide it?

A. Into the invocation, seven petitions, and the doxology.