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grace and truth given us in
Jesus Christ with love and faithfulness .~
2788 Since the Lords Prayer is that of his people
in the endtime, this our also
expresses the certitude of our hope in Gods ultimate
promise: in the new Jerusalem he will say to the victor,
I will be his God and he shall be my son.
2789 When we pray to our Father, we
personally address the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. By
doing so we do not divide the Godhead, since the Father is
its source and origin, but rather confess that
the Son is eternally begotten by him and the Holy 245
Spirit proceeds from him. We are not confusing the persons,
for we confess that our communion is with the Father and his
Son, esus Christ, in their one Holy Spirit. The Holy
Trinity is con 253 ubstantial and indivisible.
When we pray to the Father, we adore nd glorify him together
with the Son and the Holy Spirit. 790
Grammatically, our qualifies a reality common
to more an one person. There is only one God, and he is
recognized as ather by those who, through faith in his only
Son, are reborn of im by water and the Spirit.47 The
Church is this new communion 787 f God and men. United
with the only Son, who has become the rstborn among
many brethren, she is in communion with one d the same
Father in one and the same Holy Spirit.~8 In praying
ur Father, each of the baptized is praying in this
communion: he company of those who
believed were of one heart and u!. ~
791 For this reason, in spite of the divisions among
Christians, is prayer to our Father remains our
common patrimony and an 821 rgent summons for all the
baptized. In communion by faith in hrist and by Baptism,
they ought to join in Jesus prayer for the ity of his
disciples.5° 792 Finally, if
we pray the Our Father sincerely, we leave mdiidualism
behind, because the love that we receive frees us from it.
he our at the beginning of the Lords
Prayer, like the us of the st four petitions,
excludes no one. If we are to say it truthfully, ur
divisions and oppositions have to be overcome.5
793 The baptized cannot pray to our Father
without bringing efore him all those for whom he gave his
beloved Son. Gods |
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