The Lord's Prayer

There is no special reason for posting this blog today.  For some reason, it just seemed appropriate to me.

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 

Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,the power, and the glory,for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Lord's Prayer is one of the best loved and most spoken prayers on the planet. On Easter Sundays, it is thought that over 2 billion people worldwide recite this prayer. It is used in church services, schools, in small groups and in many individual private times with God.

There are numerous different versions of the prayer. The traditional Lords Prayer is based on the Authorized Version of the scriptures in 1611. Other versions in common use are from the New English Version (adopted by the Church of England in 1977), and the Catholic version (in Latin ). The Lord's prayer differs in length - the Catholic Church omits the doxology at the end ("For thine is the kingdom, the power, etc). All these popular versions are based the text on Mathew 6:9-11, rather than as it appears in Luke 11:2-4.