Meditations on the Lord's Prayer

A devotional look at the Lord's Prayer.

Michael Faber looks at each line of the Prayer our Lord taught us, interacting with real life examples, humor, scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

How many of us have learned how to recite the Lord's Prayer

as children? Perhaps we did this about the same time as we

learned how to sing the National Anthem or other childhood

prayers. It was something to be memorized, but probably not

thought about, or even understood at that age. The question

is, how many of us have thought about the Lord's Prayer, or

understood it since?

Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer in response to the

request, teach us to pray. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "The

Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers... In it we ask, not

only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the

sequence that they should be desired." CCC 2763. We should

take this prayer seriously as an important part of our Catholic

Christian spirituality. Michael Faber has broken down the

Lord's Prayer into six parts, writing a chapter on each part,

in order to lead his readers into deeper understanding and

meditation on the riches the Lord's Prayer.

Join us as we explore the Lord's Prayer together through the

pages of this devotional booklet