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2797 Simple and fait hful trust, humble and joyous assurance are the proper dispositions for one who prays the Our Father. 2798 We can invoke God as Father
because the Son of God made man has revealed him to us.
In this Son, through Baptism, we are incorporated and
adopted as sons of God. 2799 The Lords Prayer brings us into
communion with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
At the same time it reveals us to ourselves (cf
GS22~1). 2800 Praying to our Father should develop in us the
willto become like him, and foster in us a humble and
trusting heart. 2801 When we say Our Father, we are
invoking the new covenant in Jesus Christ, communion with
the Holy Trinity, and the divine love which spreads through
the Church to encompass the world. 2802 Who art in heaven does not refer
to a place but to Gods majesty and his presence in
the hearts of the just. Heaven, the Fathers
house, is the true homeland toward which we are heading and
to which, already, we belong. I Father to adore and to love and to bless him, the Spirit of adoption 2627
three, more theologal, draw us toward the
glory of the Father; the last four, as ways toward him,
commend our wretchedness to his grace. Deep calls to
deep.6~ 2804 The first series
of petitions carries us toward him, for his own sake: thy
name, thy kingdom, thy will! It is characteristic
of love to think first of the one whom we love. In none of
the three petitions do we mention ourselves; the burning
desire, even anguish, of the beloved Son for his
Fathers glory seizes us:6~ hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done... These three
supplications were already answered in the saving sacrifice
of Christ, but they are henceforth directed in hope toward
their final fulfilment, for God is not yet all in all.6~
2805 The second series of petitions unfolds with
the same movement as certain Eucharistic epicleses: as an
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