Pater Noster

I've just read a very interesting post titled A new (really old) way of thinking about the ‘Our Father’ at Mass by Fr.Z. Fr. Z's blog is to be found here.

Cailin's new year resolution: to learn the Our Father in Latin!

Pater Noster, qui es in caelis,

sanctificétur nomen Tuum,

adveniat Regnum Tuum,

fiat volúntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.

Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimitte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimittímus debitóribus nostris;

et ne nos indúcas in tentationem,

sed libera nos a malo.



In memory of Pope John Paul II.
Music from Abba Pater CD.
TRANSLATION:
1:03
You are My son, today I have begotten you.
1:11
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me.
1:18
These are prophetic words. They speak of God, who is the Father
1:25
in the highest and most authentic sense of the word.
1:32
Isaiah says: "Lord, You are our Father
1:39
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
1:47
we are all the work of Your hands."
2:00
Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me."
2:10
Can a woman forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
2:17
Though she may forget, I will not forsake you
2:34
It is significant that in the passages from the prophet Isaiah...
2:40
the paternity of God is filled with images inspired by maternity.
2:51
Jesus refers again and again to the paternity of God in regard to mankind
2:59
by alluding to numerous passages contained in the Old Testament.
3:06
For Jesus, God is not only the Father of Israel and the Father of mankind,
3:12
but also his Father and my Father.
3:19
Our Father in heaven
3:25
hallowed be Your name
3:32
Your kingdom come, Your will be done
3:40
on earth as it is in heaven.
3:48
Give us this day our daily bread
3:54
and forgive us our debts,
3:58
as we also have forgiven our debtors,
4:04
and do not bring us to the time of trial,
4:10
but rescue us from the evil one.
4:22
Our Father in heaven
4:28
hallowed be Your name
4:35
Your kingdom come, Your will be done
4:42
on earth as it is in heaven.
4:51
Give us this day our daily bread
4:58
and forgive us our debts,
5:03
as we also have forgiven our debtors,
5:10
and do not bring us to the time of trial.

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Fr. Z's conclusion is that the new idea of the Our Father is actually the old idea:

Praeceptis salutaribus moniti, et divina institutione formati, audemus dicere: (Instructed by Thy saving precepts, and following divine directions, we presume to say:) ...

The Our Father is a prayer given by God himself for us, for our salvation, so by following God's directions on this prayer we may boldly presume to say: Pater Noster.....

Hope - the expectation of "future good things".

Last week the Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, said he leaves his religion outside the door when he is legislating. Religion, he said "clouds" a person's judgment. I wonder what his religion is?

True religion enlightens the mind and heart. According to Pope John Paul II, the Church, is the custodian of fundamental truths and values. These fundamental truths and values have given hope to people for the last 2000 years, to young and old, to the sick and the dying.

In effect, by leaving religion outside the door, he's leaving God outside the door, while he makes decisions that will affect future generations.

In 1985, Pope John Paul addressed the Youth of the World:

In you there is hope, for you belong to the future, just as the future belongs to you. For hope is always linked to the future; it is the expectation of "future good things".

What "good things" is the Minister offering to the future generations?

....only God is the ultimate basis of all values; only he gives the definitive meaning to our human existence.

Pope John Paul II.

Pope John Paul also said:

Only God is good, which means this: in him and him alone all values have their first source and final completion; he is "the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end". Without him-without the reference to God-the whole world of created values remains as it were suspended in an absolute vacuum. It also loses its transparency, its expressiveness. Evil is put forward as a good and good itself is rejected. Are we not shown this by the very experience of our own time, wherever God has been removed beyond the limits of evaluations, estimations and actions?

So what is the Minister of Justice offering to the Youth of the World - a vacuum, where evil is put forward as a good, and good itself is rejected. Shame on him.
(June 2010)