OUR FATHER

The Lord's Prayer is considered to be the common Christian prayer par excellence for the majority confessions; for the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Churches, it is the model of Christian prayer.

In both gospels, it is Jesus who teaches the Lord's Prayer to his disciples to teach them the correct way to pray. The Gospel account seems to indicate that his followers had complete confidence in his teachings.

"It must be remembered that Jewish religiosity was very rigid and had very precise rites and prayers. The relationship with the Eternal Being, which according to their beliefs governed everything that exists, was something very delicate and that is why they asked Jesus to teach them the correct way to address Him; because according to them, only a person very close to God could know the correct way to speak to him, being Jesus that person for them.

With the prayer that he teaches them, Jesus tries to break with the attitudes that distanced man from God, and seeks a simplicity that facilitates dialogue with that Absolute that Jesus called Father.