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2853 Victory over the prince of
this world6~ was won once for
all at the Hour when Jesus freely gave himself up to death
to give 677 us his life. This is the Judgement of this
world, and the prince of this world is
cast out.7° He pursued the
woman7 but had no 490 hold on her: the new
Eve, full of grace of the Holy Spirit, is
preserved from sin and the corruption of death
(the Immaculate 972 Conception and the Assumption of
the Most Holy Mother of God,
Mary, ever virgin). Then the dragon was angry with
the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her
offspring.72 Therefore the Spirit and the Church
pray: Come, Lord Jesus,73 since his
coming will deliver us from the Evil One.
2854 When we ask to be delivered from the Evil
One, we pray as well to be freed from all evils,
present, past and future, of which he is the author
or instigator. In this final petition, the Church brings
before the Father all the distress of the world. Along
with deliverance from the evils that overwhelm humanity,
she implores the precious gift of peace and the grace of
perseverance in expectation
ity of faith the gathering together of
everyone and everything in him who has the keys of
Death and Hades, who is and who was and who is
to come, the Almighty.74
Deliver us, Lord, we beseech you, from every evil and grant
us peace in our day, so that aided by your mercy we might be
ever free from sin and
of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.75
glory are yours, now and for
ever, takes up again, by inclusion, the first three
petitions to our Father: the glorification of his name, the
coming of his reign and the power of his saving will. But
these prayers are now proclaimed as adoration and
thanksgiving, as in the liturgy of heaven.~6 The ruler
of this world has mendaciously attributed to himself the
three titles of kingship, power an |
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