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Why is it that in Roman Catholic bibles, the words “The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever” are left out of the Our Father prayer? As a child who attended Catholic school for nine years, I was never taught to say these words when I said my “Our Father.” Why not?
 
It’s a phrase that only appears in some manuscripts. Generally speaking, the manuscripts that include this sentence (the ‘doxology’) are later manuscripts. This has led scholars to believe that it wasn’t originally part of the Gospel, but that it was added in later.

So, translations of the Bible that exclude the doxology (that is, modern translations) do so because the doxology is viewed as a non-standard variant. However, it’s not just ‘modern translations’; the Latin Vulgate did not include this variant, and therefore, Catholic Bibles do not include it.
 
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Why is it that in Roman Catholic bibles, the words “The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever” are left out of the Our Father prayer? As a child who attended Catholic school for nine years, I was never taught to say these words when I said my “Our Father.” Why not?
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From the Didache possibly written around AD 65 - 85 (The Lord’s Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations.)
This was probably the earliest Catholic catechism.
Our current CCC even makes reference to the Didache.

Chapter 8. Fasting and Prayer (the Lord’s Prayer). But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week. Rather, fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday). Do not pray like the hypocrites, but rather as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, like this:

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 today our daily (needful) bread, and forgive us our debt as we also forgive our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (or, evil); for Thine is the power and the glory for ever…
 
The question is actually reversed. it should be: Why are the words “The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever” added to the Protestant version of the Our Father prayer?
 
Chatter163 said:
The question is actually reversed. it should be: Why are the words “The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever” added to the Protestant version of the Our Father prayer?
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