Prayer Inspired by the Our Father
Our most holy Father, Our Creator, Redeemer, Consoler, and Savior
Who are in heaven:
In the angels and in the saints, enlightening them to know, because you, Lord, are light; Inflaming them to love, because you, Lord are love, dwelling in them and filling them with happiness, because you, Lord, are the Supreme Good, the Eternal Good from whom comes all good, without whom there is no good.
Holy be your name:
May our knowledge of you become ever clearer that we may know the breadth of your blessings, the length of your promises, the height of your majesty, the depth of your judgments.
Your kingdom come:
So that you may rule in us through your grace and enable us to come to your kingdom where there is an unclouded vision of you, a perfect love of you, a blessed companionship with you, an eternal enjoyment of you.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven:
That we may love you with our whole heart by always thinking of you, with our whole soul by always directing all our intentions to you, and by seeking your glory in everything and with our whole strength by spending all energies and affections of soul and body in the service of your love and of nothing else and may we love our neighbours as ourselves by drawing them all with our whole strength to your love, by rejoicing in the good fortunes of others as well as our own, and by sympathizing with the misfortunes of others and by giving offence to no one.
Give us this day:
In memory and understanding and reverence for the love which our Lord Jesus had for us and of those things which He said and did and suffered for us.
Our daily bread:
Your own beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
And forgive us our trespasses:
Through your ineffable mercy through the power of the passion of your beloved Son together with the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all your chosen ones.
As we forgive those who trespass against us:
And whatever we do not forgive perfectly, do you, Lord, enable us to forgive to the full so that we may truly love our enemies because of you and fervently intercede for them before you, returning no one evil for evil and striving to help everyone in you.
And lead us not into temptation:
Hidden or obvious sudden or persistent
But deliver us from evil
Past, present and to come.
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