Proper recitation of the Lord's Prayer at Mass

[JHO]

I recently attended Mass at a church where they recited the protestant version of the Lord’s Prayer. After “deliver us from evil” the priest did not say the embolism, the congregation just continued to say " the kingdom, etc. Is this permitted? This is the second church that I have attended lately that has done this.

 

[stbruno]

This is taken from the US Council of Catholic bishops document on the General Instruction of the Roman Missal

*The Lord’s Prayer

*81. In the Lord’s Prayer a petition is made for daily food, which for Christians means preeminently the eucharistic bread, and also for purification from sin, so that what is holy may, in fact, be given to those who are holy. The priest says the invitation to the prayer, and all the faithful say it with him; the priest alone adds the embolism, which the people conclude with a doxology. The embolism, enlarging upon the last petition of the Lord’s Prayer itself, begs deliverance from the power of evil for the entire community of the faithful.

The invitation, the Prayer itself, the embolism, and the doxology by which the people conclude these things are sung or said aloud.

 

[palmas85]

JHO:

I recently attended Mass at a church where they recited the protestant version of the Lord’s Prayer. After “deliver us from evil” the priest did not say the embolism, the congregation just continued to say " the kingdom, etc. Is this permitted? This is the second church that I have attended lately that has done this.

Do you mean where they add for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory for ever and ever amen? I knew that Prorestants used that ending, but I’ve never heard it in the Catholic Church

 

[stbruno]

Yes, the congregation replies after the priest invokes his prayer. If you have access to a missalette at mass, you will see exactly how it is done.

 

[TableServant]

JHO:

I recently attended Mass at a church where they recited the protestant version of the Lord’s Prayer. After “deliver us from evil” the priest did not say the embolism, the congregation just continued to say " the kingdom, etc. Is this permitted? This is the second church that I have attended lately that has done this.

If I understand your question correctly, in that the priest did not add teh embolism, etc., then the answer would be “No, they were not reciting the prayer correctly.”

stbruno gave the instruction correctly above:

stbruno:

The priest says the invitation to the prayer, and all the faithful say it with him;** the priest alone adds the embolism, which the people conclude with a doxology**.

My sympathies,

Dcn. Jim