Our Father

O OUR most holy FATHER,
Our Creator, Redeemer, Consoler, and Savior

WHO ARE IN HEAVEN:
In the angels and in the saints,
Enlightening them to love, because You, Lord, are light
Inflaming them to love, because You, Lord, are love
Indwelling and filling them with happiness, because You, Lord, are the Supreme Good,
the Eternal Good
from Whom comes all good
without Whom there is no good.

HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME:
Mav our knowledge of You become ever clearer that we may know the breadth of Your blessings
the length of Your promises
the height of Your majesty
the depth of Your judgments.

YOUR KINGDOM COME:
So that You may rule in us through Your grace
and enable us to come to Your kingdom
where there is an unclouded vision of You
a perfect love of You
a blessed campanionship with You
an eternal enjoyment of You.

YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN
HEAVEN:
That we may love You with our whole heart by always thinking
of You

with our whole soul by always desiring You

with our whole mind by directing all our
intentions to You and by seeking Your
glory in everything

and with our whole strength by spending all our energies and affections
of soul and body
in the service of Your love
and of nothing else

and may we love our neighbors as ourselves
by drawing them all with our whole strength to Your love
by rejoicing in the good fortunes of others as well as our
own
and by sympathizing with the misfortunes of others
and by giving offense to no one.

GIVE US THIS DAY:
in memory and understanding and reverence
of the love which You in our Lord Jesus Christ had for us
and of those things which He said and did and suffered for us.

OUR DAILY BREAD:
Your own Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES:
Through Your ineffable mercy
through the power of the Passion of Your Beloved Son together with the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all Your chosen ones.

AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST
US:
And whatever we do not forgive perfectly, do you, Lord, enable us to forgive to the full so that we may truly love our enemies and fervently intercede for them before You returning no one evil for evil
and striving to help everyone in You.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
Hidden or obvious
Sudden or persistent.

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Past, present and to come.

St. Francis