The Lord's Prayer Catholic/Version

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Does anyone out there know why protestants finish the Lord’s Prayer with “For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the glory…” One might wonder if we Catholics can’t agree on the wording of the Lord’s Prayer, then perhaps a lot of the bible’s contents should be called into question. So who is right on this one? Catholics or Protestants? Did Luther introduce this last phrase? I note that the church closely related to ours, the Orthodox have the same version as we do.

 

[Fidelis]

The doxology of the Our Father is not found in the best original manuscripts of the Scriptures, but in other ancient writings. Here is what the Catechism says:

**2760 ** Very early on, liturgical usage concluded the Lord’s Prayer with a doxology. In the Didache, we find, “For yours are the power and the glory for ever.” The Apostolic Constitutions add to the beginning: “the kingdom,” and this is the formula retained to our day in ecumenical prayer…

The retention of it by many Protestants when they recite the Our Father is for them (dare I say it?) a tradition.

 

[Pious]

Hi,

this site will explain the Lords prayer and the doxology.

stbrigids-kilbirnie.com/Pages/our_father.html

Yours in the Spirt

Pious.

 

[MrS]

Fidelis:

The doxology of the Our Father is not found in the best original manuscripts of the Scriptures, but in other ancient writings. Here is what the Catechism says:

The retention of it by many Protestants when they recite the Our Father is for them (dare I say it?) a tradition.

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