Lord's Prayer

Also known as Our Father or Pater Noster in the Roman Catholic Church.

The prayer taught by Jesus and, in slight variations, used by all Christians in public and private. Two versions of it occur in the New Testament; one in the Gospel of Matthew 6:9-13, and the other in the Gospel of Luke 11:2-4.

There are several different translations of the Lord's Prayer; the following is from the 1928 version of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP):

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.

[For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.]

The Catholic version does not include the text shown in square brackets.