Split the Lord's prayer during Mass

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Why do Catholic Masses split the Lord’s prayer?

The priest interjects a little saying between “…and deliver us from evil.” And “…for thine is the Kingdom…”?

It’s all one prayer, so it doesn’t make any sense to me to split it! Let the people finish the prayer! 😃
 
If you’ll look in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, which contains the historic rite of Anglicanism, you’ll notice that only in one place–after the consecration–does the prayer contain the doxology. At the beginning of the Holy Communion rite, and at every other rite, it does not. What does that suggest?
 
Well, the second part (the Doxology) is not part of the original Lord’s Prayer, it is an amendment.

In St. Matthew’s Gospel, one translation is

Matthew 6:9-13 (RSV-2CE)

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 this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Some translations have the last line as: “Rescue us from the evil one”.
 
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It wasn’t part of the Mass until after the liturgy was reformed after the Second Vatican Council. It can be found in the Didiche. However, Catholics have always had a habit of splitting prayers up between a leader and responders.
 
Oooh I see!

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone!

Here I was thinking the ancient prayer was being split…while in reality the split bit was added in after
 

Doxology[edit]​

“For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.”

See also: Matthew 6:13

The doxology of the prayer is not contained in Luke’s version, nor is it present in the earliest manuscripts of Matthew,[54] representative of the Alexandrian text, although it is present in the manuscripts representative of the later Byzantine text.[55] Most scholars do not consider it part of the original text of Matthew.[56][57] New translations generally omit it.[58]

The first known use of the doxology, in a less lengthy form (“for yours is the power and the glory forever”),[59] as a conclusion for the Lord’s Prayer (in a version slightly different from that of Matthew) is in the Didache, 8:2. It has similarities with 1 Chronicles—“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.” In the Byzantine Rite, a similar doxology is sung within the context of the Divine Liturgy. Following the last line of the prayer, the priest sings “For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.”

Latin Church Roman Catholics do not use the doxology when reciting the Lord’s Prayer, because it is not part of their received liturgical tradition and is not found in the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. Since 1970 it is included in the Roman Rite Mass as an independent item, not as part of the Lord’s Prayer. The Anglican Book of Common Prayer sometimes gives the Lord’s Prayer with the doxology, sometimes without.[60] Most Protestants append it to the Lord’s Prayer.

 
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Why do Catholic Masses split the Lord’s prayer?
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We don’t. The Lord’s Prayer ends with “… deliver us from evil.”

In the liturgy, the priest continues on with a prayer and then the people respond with the doxology “…for the kingdom…”.

Outside the liturgy, the prayer ends with “… deliver us from evil” and the doxology isn’t said.

The doxology isn’t part of the Lord’s Prayer.
 
I want to clarify something that I don’t feel my original response made apparent. I’m talking about the second part “For the Kingdom…” Catholics have always used the Lords Prayer. It was that second part that is found in the Didiche that was inserted into the Mass after the liturgical reforms.

But even before that was added the Lords Prayer was split between the priest and respondents. The priest would say the prayer up until “forgive us our trespasses” and the respondents would reply “deliver us from evil.” This only applies to the Roman Rite as I am unfamiliar with the liturgy of other Rites of the Church. Perhaps somebody else that does know could chime in.
 
The Lord’s Prayer is not split at Mass. “But deliver us from evil.” is the end of the Lord’s Prayer. “For yours is … and ever. Amen.” is a doxology or acclamation that has become added to it.
 
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Why do Catholic Masses split the Lord’s prayer?

The priest interjects a little saying between “…and deliver us from evil.” And “…for thine is the Kingdom…”?

It’s all one prayer, so it doesn’t make any sense to me to split it! Let the people finish the prayer! 😃
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For an Anglo-Catholic approach to the use or non-use of the Doxology in the Lord’s Prayer, St. Augustine’s Prayer Book (which is primarily for individual devotion) has the Doxology attached unless the prayer follows the Kyrie, in which case the Doxology is omitted.

The Doxology’s presence following, but not as part of, the Lord’s Prayer is such an ancient liturgical custom that they’ve sort of bled together in common usage, but they are separate things.
 
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Episcopalian said:
Why do Catholic Masses split the Lord’s prayer?

The priest interjects a little saying between “…and deliver us from evil.” And “…for thine is the Kingdom…”?

It’s all one prayer, so it doesn’t make any sense to me to split it! Let the people finish the prayer! 😃
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Because it is NOT one prayer.

It’s actually two. " For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen" is one of many Doxology prayers.

While I’m often suspect of Wikipedia, it does have a good article regarding this. Read the whole thing and then when you get to section 1.5 (The Lord’s Prayer Doxology) it will make more sense.

Doxology - Wikipedia.

God Bless
 
BTW

It’s like how we add “Glory be to The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen” to the end of each Psalm during the Liturgy of the Hours.

God Bless
 
There are three separate parts:
1 Our Father ending with “…and deliver us from evil.”
2 Embolism “Deliver us Lord,… free from sin and safe from all distress…coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.”
3 Doxology “for the kingdom…now and forever. Amen”

Link to learning more about the Embolism part. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09214b.htm
And the Doxology and Embolism The Our Father and the doxology - Our Sunday Visitor

The Embolism was what really hit me when I first went to a Catholic Mass. “… and make us safe/secure in all worry and confusion…” I honestly have to say that I still love that prayer and am glad that it is part of the Mass. And I don’t envy those who try to translate “perturbatióne” from Latin into other languages while at the same time, take into consideration that it shall fit to be sung.
 
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