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Why do we say Our Father but My Jesus?
We never say My Father, Our Jesus and never My/Our Holy Ghost. It is also Our Lady and never My Lady. And are these only used in private devotions or used in Liturgies as well? Please explain.
 
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We never say My Father, Our Jesus and never My/Our Holy Ghost
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Father is Father of the Son but also Father of us, His creations. Son is Son of the Father and also our Brother as he took human will and essence upon himself. We also call him our Lord as he is that and our Savior for same reason. He is not our Son and hence we do not call him our Son. He is our Jesus in expression of being Brother, Savior and Lord. Personally, I do not meet with term “My Jesus” a lot- though I do meet with term “My Father”- it could be cultural, but honestly it probably depends on whether our prayer is in community (our) or alone (my).

Holy Spirit is called Spirit of the Father and Spirit of the Son- as such, He is mostly Their Spirit. He was gifted to us and “our spirit” already refers to something else. He is our Spirit in terms of that he stays with us, was gifted to us and came for us. It’s just that term was already used in New Testament age to refer to something else, and has since remained to refer to that thing.
 
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“O my Jesus , forgive us our sins , save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen”
 
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“O my Jesus , forgive us our sins , save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen”
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Oh, I see. In my language prayer is without “my” part. It’s just “O Jesus, forgive us our sins…”. I don’t really know an answer then.
 
“O my Jesus , forgive us our sins , save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen”

The prayer has an odd mismatch of pronouns. Who is praying? It is not an impossible situation— I can pray for us — just a little odd.
 
As the person said above, it is often said as just “O Jesus”, which is more grammatically correct. That is actually how I learned it.

OP, I think if you read a lot of prayers, you’ll find that quite a few also use “My God” for God the Father. For example, the traditional Morning Offering begins, “O My God, I offer you the most precious blood of Jesus…” and the Fatima Angel prayer begins, “My God, I believe, I hope, I adore and I love thee…”

Jesus is also frequently called “Our Lord”.

While Mary is often called “Our Lady”, she is also frequently referred to as “My” as in the Memorare “O Virgin of Virgins, My mother”.
 
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Many of our more formal prayers had a particular purpose in mind when drafted into whatever source we learned them from - either for a group to pray or an individual. Thus, you can even see some differences between texts of the same prayer of “we” or “us” vs. “I” and “me”. The Memorare is one such prayer that can be adjusted based on who’s praying (group or individual). For other prayers, it helps to understand their context beyond the words alone - the Our Father is always considered a communion prayer, meaning we join our intentions with other Christians’ in this sentiment whether they’re physically present with us or not.
 
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