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The Lord’s Prayer

Highlight or underline the words in the prayer that you don’t understand the meaning of. Write them out in your book. The Lord’s Prayer.

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The Lord’s Prayer

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  1. Highlight or underline the words in the prayer that you don’t understand the meaning of. Write them out in your book. The Lord’s Prayer When the disciples saw Jesus praying, they saw what a close connection he had with God, and they wanted to know how to pray like him. So they asked Jesus “Teach us to pray !” Jesus taught them the “Our Father” prayer - God’s own words of prayer. Explain what the words mean. Why did the disciples want Jesus to teach them how to pray? Why is the Our Father prayer more special than other prayers ?

  2. The Lord’s Prayer • To explain the petitions of the Lord’s prayer • To explain how the Lord’s prayer can make us more like Jesus • To reflect on how prayer can change things.

  3. 1. Check with your partner what the correct meaning is for each line: note down your guesses as 1a, 2b etc. 2. Write out the correct meaning to match the line in the Lord’s Prayer, that it explains.** Which line means the most to you, when you pray it? Why?

  4. 1. The “Our Father” prayer can be divided into 3 parts: • About God • About Us • About Evil The Pope Explains: “First, we must know who God is, and that God comes first. Nothing can turn out well unless our relationship to God is right. So we pray to Our Father first, and only then about what we need. Finally, being right with God and with ourselves, we can pray against evil to resist it.” Pope Benedict XVI Jesus of Nazareth, vol.2 Write out the Lord’s prayer as pictures, for someone who can’t read... Bracket and label The lines that are about God? The lines that are about Us & what we need? The lines that are about Evil? 4. Why do you think the Our Father prayer is in this order: about God – then Us – then Evil ? The Our Father talks about God, then about us, then about evil because...

  5. God Us Evil Tell your partner one example of what each section is about….

  6. Homework Choose one of the prayers in the Lord’s Prayer. • Describe in detail a situation where you wish it would happen. • Explain how it could come true (remember God doesn’t answer prayers in “magical” ways – like in the story of the Drowning man!) • Explain why it is important to ask God’s help in this situation.

  7. Abwoond'bwashmaya- Our Father who art in heavenNethqadashshmakh - hallowed be thy nameTeyteymalkuthakh– thy kingdom comeNehweytzevyanach– thy will be doneaykannad'bwashmayaaphb'arha. – on earth as heavenHawvlanlachmad'sunqananyaomana. – give us this day..Washboqlankhaubaynaykanadaph– and forgive us … khnanshbwoqanl'khayyabayn. – as we forgive ..Welatahlanl'nesyuna– and lead us not into temptationElapatzan min bisha. – but deliver us from evil Ameyn

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