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in Heaven. His abode brings before us the greatness
and majesty of God. Hallowed be Thy name. These
words with the invocation belong to perfect charity, b}^
which we love God for His own sake and desire the
glory and praise of God from all creation.
In Thy Kingdom come, we pray that God may
reign in our hearts and bring us to Heaven. We con
sider Him as the source of all good to us.
In Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,
we ask that God may give us the grace to keep from
all sin by the perfect fulfilment of His will, as the
blessed fulfil it in Heaven.
In give us this day our daily bread, we ask our
daily nourishment for soul and body. In our English
Catholic version of St. Matthew s Gospel, we have
supersubstantial, which is taken from St. Jerome s
Latin version ; in St. Luke we have daily. In St.
Matthew and St. Luke the Greek word is the same.
It means for the day now coming upon us, as we say
"for the next twenty-four hours. Daily bread
may also refer to the living Bread in the Eucharist
" and the bread that I will give is My flesh for the
life of the world," our Lord s words in St. John (vi. 52).
The next three petitions, as already stated, are to
remove all that hinders us from gaining our end.
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them
that trespass against us.
St. Matthew has debts, but sins are debts for which
we owe restitution to God.
St. Matthew.
St. Luke s version explains
Lead us not into temptation, that is, give
us grace not to yield to any temptation which you
permit, and to avoid any temptation to which our
corrupt nature attracts us.