The Eucharistic Prayer is finished. Jesus is present on the altar, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. We stand now, and the priest reminds us of Jesus’ teaching and command. We are to pray as He taught us, and that means praying the Lord’s Prayer.
We join our voices to praise God and ask Him for our daily bread and for the forgiveness we continually need. We beg Him that His will may be done on earth, in us and by us, as it is in Heaven. We long to “hallow” His Name, to hold it sacred, and we desire the coming of His kingdom. We ask God that we may not be led into temptation, the testing or trials that God sends to us but that He always gives us the grace to endure and conquer if only we turn to Him. We conclude with a request that recognizes how small and helpless we are as we ask God to deliver us from evil.
Here we pause, but the priest continues to pray. He reiterates the request to deliver us from evil and asks that God grant us peace and the help of His mercy that we may be “free from sin and safe from all distress” while we wait in hope for the coming of Jesus.
We rejoin the prayer then with the doxology, “For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours now and forever.” We know that God is control. We realize that everything we have comes from Him. We proclaim this in trust, recognizing that He longs to give us every good gift, for He is our Father.
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