Pater Noster
The Lord's Prayer
The prayer our Lord Himself taught His disciples (Matthew 6:9–13).
Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie,
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem,
sed libera nos a malo.
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.
Translation source: fisheaters.com/prayers.html
About this prayer
The Pater Noster is the prayer our Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught, when His disciples asked that He teach them to pray. It is handed down in the Gospels of Saint Matthew (6:9–13) and Saint Luke (11:2–4), and for this reason the Fathers have always called it the Lord's Prayer and esteemed it the most perfect of all prayers: in it, as Saint Thomas Aquinas observes, we ask for everything we may rightly desire, and in the very order in which we ought to desire it.
Its seven petitions rise from the hallowing of God's name to deliverance from evil. From the earliest centuries the Church has set this prayer at the very heart of her worship. In the traditional Roman Mass it is sung by the priest after the Canon, in immediate preparation for Holy Communion, the very Bread for which it asks; it is prayed at every hour of the Divine Office, and said before each decade of the Holy Rosary. In the Catholic form the prayer concludes "but deliver us from evil. Amen," the doxology "For thine is the kingdom" being no part of the received text.