THE LORD’S PRAYER
BROTHERS & SISTERS IN HEAVEN
6 NOVEMBER 2009
(St Stephen’s Church Hall, Inverness)

REFERENCES

(References to bibles used are usually to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), The New Jerusalem BIble (NJB), the Revised English Bible (REB), the New International Version NIV), the English Standard Version (ESV) or the King James Version (KJV)).

Introduction

Numbers praying - see Wikipedia s.v. “Lord’s Prayer” and references there given.

Rabbi’s practice on teaching prayer: William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke, (3rd ed 2001), p.170.

Attitude to prayer

Matthew 6:5. Prayer alone: Luke 9:18; Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46; cf. John 17).

Brevity

Matthew 6:7. Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, (3rd ed 2001) vol 1, p.226. Graeme Davidson, Anyone Can Pray (2008) p.43; W Beckett, Sister Wendy on Prayer, (2006) p.39. Romans 8:26-7. 1 Kings 3:9. Jerome’s Vulgate.

Mandatory form?

Matthew 6: 5-14; Luke 11:1-4; Mark 14:36-8; Luke 22:40-2; Matthew 26:39-42. The Didache.

Our Father

Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 64:8. Jewish Amidah. Philip S Esler, The First Christians in Their Social World, (1994). 1 Timothy 2:1. Kenneth E Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes (2008) p.97.

Brothers and sisters: Galatians 3:26 - 4:7; Romans 8:14-7; 1 John 3:1-2; John 20:21; John 20:17; Mark 14:36; Luke 23:46; Matthew 12:50.

Who art in heaven

The Kaddish. Evening Shema. French text from www.lords-prayer-words.com  

Hallowed be thy name

The New Testament in the Moffat Translation (1935). The New Testament, trans by William Barclay (1968).

The Kingdom Come

Matthew 13:31-3; Mark 4:30-2; Luke 13:18-21. Genesis 6:5-6. John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monostrous Regiment of Women, (first pub. 1558 reissued in various editions and reprints).

Galatians 3:28; Philemon; Acts 2:17-21. Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965. European Convention On Human Rights.

Psalm 137.

T Wright, The Lord and His Prayer, (1996), p.24.

Hymn 473 by Frederick L Hosmer, Church Hymnary (4th ed, 2005).

The Wiil be Done 

Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom, quoted in Celtic Daily Prayer (2002) p.783.

Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42.

Arthur J Gossip, Experience Worketh Hope (1944), p.18.

Basil Hume, The Mystery of the Cross (2004) p.33.

Helen S Rice, Just for You (1968), “On the Wings of a Prayer”, p.13.

Basil Hume, The Mystery of Love (2000), p.xi.