the Lord's Prayer... OF DOOM.

[dustthouart]

The medicine has kicked in REALLY well. I feel so much better already. I even had the energy to go back to the market to pick up the bag of veg I left behind. Oops.

I think I may have written about this before, but I think that the Lord's Prayer is the most terrifying prayer there is.

If you don't believe me, let's just take it line by line.Our

Comments

[earthminor]

Very true!

So what 'kind' of Catholic are you? (Question prompted by your decision not to include the second half of verse Matthew 6:13, since I hear some Catholic churches use it and some don't. Also, you seem very different to any Catholic I've ever met before, so I'm curious.)

[dustthouart]

Regular Roman kind? XD I attend Mass in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which is the normal Roman Rite, in communion with the Pope and all that good stuff.

I don't know too much about Catholicism in Australia. I used to regularly read a blog called Coo-ees from the Cloister, mostly because of the name, which is hilarious. It's kind of a church gossip blog, however, and can be snarky to a degree that I find mean-spirited, so I don't read it anymore.

So... what are the Catholics you've met before like? XD

[earthminor]

Usually they're not there for the faith, rather they are culturally catholic. In any case, they don't live like I'd expect a believing Catholic to live (sex before marriage, drinking to excess, etc.). Really, they just seem like non-Christians in their actions. My father's side of the family is 'Catholic', but they never go to Mass except at Christmas and Easter, and I know my aunt believes in reincarnation. So I must confess I don't see them as genuine Catholics

[sweetfires]

Hi! Do you mean this verse? "For thine is the kingdom, and the glory,and the power"? According to Wikisource (linky!) Anglicans and Episcopalians say it after the Lord's Prayer as part of it. Roman Catholics have a slightly different format but don't really consider it as part of the Lord's Prayer, or at least I don't. *shrug*

Paternoster

[johncwright]

My instinct is, when I say the words "Thy Will be Done" is to duck.

I know I have not been doing His will, and I am hoping He will hold off on visiting the various earthquakes, tribulations, persecutions, genocides, ecocides and celestocides (is there a word for the darkening and destruction of astronomical bodies?) promised us in the book of the Apocalypse, and which unfortunately far too many of us deserve.

We are praying for daily bread because it is manna, the bread of heaven dropped onto the Chosen People during their wanderings: it reminds us not to fret about the future or to ask for blessings in advance.