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PREFA

Meanings Gospel discour

Holy Spirit and therefore wi

view to eternity. Every' te ching, p rable, stor

s every phrase, every word and

the Gospel ! Christ is

signific nce. These re not

superfici l interpret tion, t

spiritual measure can conceive.

This is lso true ! the God-g

s ''Our Father", which the L

Church as ex mple ! pr yerOur Holy F thers lived the G

His holy comm ndments. Th

became extensions of the Gosp


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presence God in our life and

other words, tOOtpr yer may

g in will deepen nd inspire

direct tow rds our Holy God.


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r7 Ifr ur holy Orthodox ~ the ideologies or

even one of the relgions of

The God of the Orthodox

philo-sophers, that is to say

impersonal principle or

which we are elevated begi

values.

We, the Orthodox, believ

the Father, the Son and t

Trinitarian God reveals H

His second person, that of oThe Son of God becomes

Christ, preaches the Gospe

is crucified is resurrected f


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"Pray and lo e God n orde

can say to someone who is s

Through prayer, the unbecomes approachable.

becomes known.

The strange God becomes f

This is the path that Theour Lord, showed us. The

often prayed, "lea ing behi

we should follow n his steps

He taught that we must

with forgi eness and with p

behind a model, an exempla

all Christians, the "Lord's

Father" .

The alue of this prayer is

First of all, because it was


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O UR FATH ER, W H O

~Cj/he Lord's Prayer

C:::l/ invocation. The LoGod, Father.

Father, because He is ou

the granter of being, of life.

Father, because for us Chr

granter of well being, of thegave us through Jesus Chris

to our apostasy from our h

were not only separated from

also, His enemies. Jesus Chthe Father, by nature, with

His crucifixion, reconciled u

and made us His children b


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Chrysostom, Treatise to M

Greek Fathers of the Church

Addressing as "Father" oAlmighty Creator of ever

what He has done for us, Hi

and mostly what He has don

Lord Jesus Ch st the invocation "Father" brin

nta an God.

Saint Maximus the Conf

the Lord teaches (those whstart from theology. He also

mysterious way of the Ca

beings, He who is actua1

beings. Because the words the revelation of the Father,

His Kingdom, so that we


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changed and altered, to

Unchangeable and Unalte

unmo ed and unwa ering s Him first with my will

in oke Him, with the ery

and say "Father"! What sou

has spoken to God? Whaconscience?" (At Prayer, Ho

ofthe Church l. , . 43

Great and ceess is the

as we want, we can addresour Father.

Still, when the Ch stan is

perceptibly recei es the Gra

then he feels his heart thehis own sonship. He feels f

towards God the Father.


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of God the Father, " ...after

the great Paul, all fathers

named" (Discourse 11againsIf the earthly fathers refle

blessing of the heavenly F

fathers as well. Without this

true and genuine fathers ananything essential to their

are estranged from the heave

not become genuine and prop

How many people sufferdid not have a true and lovin

heterodox Chrstian, wh

said that he had become Or

Orthodoxy did he find sp

that longer exists weste

remember the case of t


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Saint Cosmas the Aitolan

paternallo e: ''And frst of

our God because He grantedto temporarly dwell ,

myriads herbs, plants, fou

the sea, fish, ar, day, nigh

the sun, the moon. For whoFor us. What did He owe u

are gifts. He made us hum

animals. He made us pi

Christians and not impiousthough we continually sin,

for us lke a father does an

to death order to place us

with open arms for our repethe time when we will repen

deeds and do good, confess,


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It is a great honour for

Father, but also great is the

who must become worthy oLet us recall our Lord's wo

merciful, as your Father al

6, 36). "Be ye therefore p

Father which is heaven is

Saint Nicodemus the Ha

subject, "For this reason o

how to pray to our Father by

always protected under th

until the end, that is to say

not only by the rebirth and

our labours and deeds, as wdoes not perform spiritual

satanic ones, is not worthy t

but instead the Devil acco


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OUR

. - . .r z t is characteristic t~ us to address God

as our Father, not my Father

from a selfish relationship

God and we, not God and

'embraces' all our fellow me

our brethren, due to our coGod, the Father. Our heart

Orthodox Christians who, d

faith and common birth from

'womb' of the Church, theaddition our brethren by Grac

How can God be your Fa

f ll


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W H O A R T

,-..G/he All-Holy God

C ::::!/ the l Father

Chrysostom explains, "Whesaid, we don't confine G

instead, the worshipper is el

and fixes his attention to t

residences" (ibid, .668).So, the phrase ' heaven'

of God the Father and not

everywhere present God.

Saint Gregory of Nyssa thdistinction between the div

not local, therefore we nee


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Paradise. Not l time

and at all times we must

heaven, so that the mind ihere perishable and tem

.28).


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HALLOWEDBET

..--G/his is the first pe

C :::: :!/ Prayer. 'Hallowed

according to Saint ChrysostoOf course, the Uncreated

be glorified by His created cr

He wants us to glorify Him

us men.He protects us from the

oursel es with a fake glory

to us. Selfishness gi es birth

We are set correctly glorify God, recognizing Go

because He is the Creator,


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fathers. This is what happe

Israel. whom the Lord s

Gospel according to John, when you recei e honour f

seek not the honour that

only?" (John 5, 44). This i

contemporary, humanisticwants man to be the centr

beliefs of the humanist ma

the French atheist, J.P. Sa

God, "When exist, ca or me".

Ne ertheless, according

Palamas, man is truly glori

God. He is glorified when not independent from God,

he can become a god by Gr


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Christians can contribute t

God, when they live a holy lif

the Lord's words, "Let your

men, that they may see you

gl f your Father which is

16).

the contrary, when we to God's will, whom we b

God is blasphemed among

us." (See Romans 2, 24). Th

"hallowed be Thy name", Chrysostom means, "render

purely, so through us all gl

672).

According to the same Salife as an example to all, is a

so that everyone who sees u


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LORD

is a summary of the Lord's P

and the three first petition

"Lord Jesus Ch st, Son of last petitions are summarize

me the sinner".

this way, the "Jesus p

spirit of the Lord's Prayerworshipper to say it with gre

feeling.


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INGDO

Of4' /hen God reign-f/f/ liberated, pacif

sanctified. When God doe

man is exposed to the devenslaves him to passions, to

him to weariness, to emptin

loneliness, tuming his life in

The world today which deGod is tormented by horrible

such as witchcraft, superstiti

crime and the dissolution of

The Lord teaches us to ask

come. According to the holy F

is the Grace of the Holy Spi


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LORD'S

residence suitable to welcom

whole, so that God from n

our hearts, as is w tte , "..within you" (Luke 17, 21)

the book of Genesis

creation of the world, dark

and the Spirit of God hovThe Holy Spirit banished

took shape. Darkness and

inner self. when man

to dwell within him, is he pilluminated, and finds inter

That is why the prayer

addressed to the Holy Spirit

of "Thy Kingdom come",abide us and cleanse us

save, Good One, our sou


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It is obvious from the abov

of God is not an external

world, but the dwelling of th

hearts. This results the tr

world through transfigured p

For this reason, our Orthod

attempted to conquer the Chrstianty has. Rather, She a

the world Chrst. Orthodox

activistic (of actions) but he

and of contemplation, throsanctified and transfigured in

The partaking of the Sain

Light of the Holy Trinity is

Gregory Palamas, a partakngGod, His glory and His


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WILL DON

AS IS

_ / /an' s selfish wil

Cd/f/t God, exiled himcaused all his misfortunes

renounce his selfish will a

holy will of God, he cannot

illness of selfishness and egoChrist, the New Adam, a

New Eve, with their total o

Adam's and Eve's disobedi

of God.Christ was obedient to th

the point of death, to the poi


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all people. We ask for the wi

completely, as is done by th

are totally obedient to God.interprets, "Thus, render us m

out Your will, not half-done bu

as you desire". And he add

dictates to each one of us, who

welfare of the whole world.

thy will be done me or

earth, so that deception disa

planted and all vice is uproote

again, so that neither heaven n

this respect. For, if this cou

there will be difference b

earth, although they differ

earth will have her own ange

674)


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divine will out of pure 10ve

This is a sign of perfection.

angels heaven do.As 10ng as man ca es out

not find true inner peace.

God's will, he is reconci1ed

peace. This is the peace froask for the Divine Liturgy

According to the holy Fath

to be found His comma

reason whoever keeps Gounites with God.

However, even when w

mandments, we will still

'filthy slaves' , according to

This is because the Grace of

and not our own good dee


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that liberates man from e

egoism is a pseudo-freedom

choosing to obey God, cholove that presupposes the

sacrifice of our egoism.

It is what the holy Fath

struggle and e e ence saydisobedience is death".


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GIVE US THIS DAY OU

_rv1Ccording to Sai

~ as our life a

concemed, the Lord orders

conduct and to fulfil whate

Howe er, since we are m

taught us to ask for our bThis should be done by

should not ask for luxury

essential bread", the basic

This is to be done 'today', wour daily care does not ex

(ibid . 672).


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His crucified and resu ected

we recite the Lord's prayer

munion and after the recitatus, Master, worthy that we

condemnation dare to call

God as Father, and to say...".

this way this prayer is the Holy Eucharist and lead

use of this world. askin

we need, we acknowledge

provider of everythng good

all the gifts of life as His gift

This helps us to be humble,

towards God, "Let us give th

"It is meet and right", "For

give thanks to You... for the

benefits for all the things


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way of life, we would res

surrounds us and we would

today's terrible ecological dLet us pay attention

temporary consuming way o

to the spirit of this petition

but uneucharistic. It is notand indi idualistic. It does

the essential bread, but it

extra agance and luxury.

know that our o erconsumi

turns out to be our gra e

injustices and social e ils.

It is also noteworthy that w

bread not l for oursel es

petitions, for all of us. On

b h h h k G


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AND FORGIVE US OU

AS WE FORGIVEWHO TRESPASS A

_rVh long as man liv

C : : : ! : > < can not forgive offended ego does not allow

when man repents and deci

the centre of his life, then hedistressed, harmed and were

We must put a hard s

liberate ourselves from resentm

tyrannizes our soul. For thtaught us to seek forgivenes

condition that we forgive


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therefore, members of each

of sins and reconciliation,

and joined with your own mrest when a member of y

your body? Only if you are

Body of Christ or if you a

Him, will you not feel yourof you.

The Christian who lives

following the example of

Since God forgives, he alsohow could he ask God to

forgiving the minor offence

would resemble the cunning

known parable who would

debt owed to him by a fell

Merciful Lord had made


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away and revolting against hi

Secondly, because he excha

freedom with the deadly slav

to be govemed by the power

of remaining near God.

Is there a greater evil than

of the Creator, but instead, to ugliness of sin?

What sort of punishment s

contempt of the divine good

the lures used by the devil?Also, who can enumerat

trespasses? The destruction o

ruin of the seal, we received a

The 10ss of the drachma andthe patemal table. The addict

of the swine and the waste of


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AND LEAD US

DELIVER US

_ rvf'nd do not allow

CdXt temptation, but According to Saint Maxi

are of two kinds: those wh

those which bring pain.

oluntary and gi e birth

second ones are in olunt

passions. We must a oid th

must not seek the in olun

always loathe them, becaurnight subrnit to them. Whe

we must bear them with co


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teaching us not to pu

says Saint John Chrysostom

to be aware of our weaknes

b des the self-conceit, the

temptations come against ou

face them with bravery, "

bravery and our lack of vanitSaint John Chrysostom als

doesn't say 'from the evil on

evil people, but 'from the ev

from the devi1.The Lord doeto lay the blame and be

people who distress us, but

the devi1 who incites them

evi1, ''Ordering us to fight truce". Furthermore, he doe

wickedness is not a natura1co


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FOR IS

AND POWER ANFOR EVER AND E

-.. (Ztis natural that theey-glorification of G

request to be delivered

Almighty God, the King o

lords has the final word

devil, who by God's conc

fIuence the strings of hist

bring about disorder, he ma

over the world with his co

God's Will will be done.

The rule of the Antichrist

i th t l L d d i


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LORD'S

As far as my weakness

have pe nited us, we have p

divine words of the Lord's P

Our heart is full of than

benevolent Lord who has h

holy prayer as power, light a

life.

All the petitions of the Lliberate ourselves from o

help us live not selfishly f

our God and our fellow-m

oursel es of selfishness, tinto us.

Allow me to say somethin


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are informed that many

Lord's Prayer is recited at

go into the school courtyawith the students, or they st

behind their backs to show

thing they do not believe .

Those who renounce Chconsciouslyor unconsciously

centredly and selfishly, say a

-They do not say, "Ourheaven", but they say, "Myse

the earth".

-They do not say, "Th

but, "my ingdom come".-They do not say, "Thy

"my will be done"


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and the power and the glory"

kingdom and the power and

only those who deny

Christians, happen ha e,

temptations and downfalls

indi idualistic and diabolic lThis ery self-centrednes

makes our life today an impa

Our country's c ss pol

inter-personal relationship, think is due all this.

We ha e denied the spirit o

the Lord's Prayer.

see solution this i

and the ruled do repent.

ideology can sa e us


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