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II. "THY KINGDOM COME"
2816 In the New Testament, the word basileia can be translated by
"kingship" (abstract noun), "kingdom" (concrete noun) or "reign" (action
noun). The Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word
incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come
in Christ's death and Resurrection. The Kingdom of God has been coming
since the Last Supper and, in the Eucharist, it is in our midst. The
kingdom will come in glory when Christ hands it over to his Father:
2817 This petition is "Marana tha," the cry of the Spirit and the Bride:
"Come, Lord Jesus."
2818 In the Lord's Prayer, "thy kingdom come" refers primarily to the final coming of the reign of God through Christ's return.[88] But, far from distracting the Church from her mission in this present world, this desire commits her to it all the more strongly. Since Pentecost, the coming of that Reign is the work of the Spirit of the Lord who "complete[s] his work on earth and brings us the fullness of grace."[89]
2819 "The kingdom of God [is] righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit."[90] The end-time in which we live is the age of the outpouring of
the Spirit. Ever since Pentecost, a decisive battle has been joined
between "the flesh" and the Spirit.[91]
2820 By a discernment according to the Spirit, Christians have to distinguish between the growth of the Reign of God and the progress of the culture and society in which they are involved. This distinction is not a separation. Man's vocation to eternal life does not suppress, but actually reinforces, his duty to put into action in this world the energies and means received from the Creator to serve justice and peace.[93] 2821 This petition is taken up and granted in the prayer of Jesus which is present and effective in the Eucharist; it bears its fruit in new life in keeping with the Beatitudes.[94] III. "THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN"2822 Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."[95] He "is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish."[96] His commandment is "that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."[97] This commandment summarizes all the others and expresses his entire will. 2823 "He has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ . . . to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will."[98] We ask insistently for this loving plan to be fully realized on earth as it is already in heaven. 2824 In Christ, and through his human will, the will of the Father has been perfectly fulfilled once for all. Jesus said on entering into this world: "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God."[99] Only Jesus can say: "I always do what is pleasing to him."[100] In the prayer of his agony, he consents totally to this will: "not my will, but yours be done."[101] For this reason Jesus "gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father."[102] "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."[103]
2825 "Although he was a Son, [Jesus] learned obedience through what he
suffered."[104] How much more reason have we sinful creatures to learn
obedience - we who in him have become children of adoption. We ask our
Father to unite our will to his Son's, in order to fulfill his will, his
plan of salvation for the life of the world. We are radically incapable of
this, but united with Jesus and with the power of his Holy Spirit, we can
surrender our will to him and decide to choose what his Son has always
chosen: to do what is pleasing to the Father.[105]
2826 By prayer we can discern "what is the will of God" and obtain the endurance to do it.[108] Jesus teaches us that one enters the kingdom of heaven not by speaking words, but by doing "the will of my Father in heaven."[109]
2827 "If any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to
him."[110] Such is the power of the Church's prayer in the name of her
Lord, above all in the Eucharist. Her prayer is also a communion of
intercession with the all-holy Mother of God[111] and all the saints who
have been pleasing to the Lord because they willed his will alone:
IV. "GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD"2828 "Give us": The trust of children who look to their Father for everything is beautiful. "He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."[113] He gives to all the living "their food in due season."[114] Jesus teaches us this petition, because it glorifies our Father by acknowledging how good he is, beyond all goodness. 2829 "Give us" also expresses the covenant. We are his and he is ours, for our sake. But this "us" also recognizes him as the Father of all men and we pray to him for them all, in solidarity with their needs and sufferings.
2830 "Our bread": The Father who gives us life cannot not but give us the
nourishment life requires - all appropriate goods and blessings, both
material and spiritual. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus insists on the
filial trust that cooperates with our Father's providence.[115] He is not
inviting us to idleness,[116] but wants to relieve us from nagging worry
and preoccupation. Such is the filial surrender of the children of God:
2831 But the presence of those who hunger because they lack bread opens up another profound meaning of this petition. The drama of hunger in the world calls Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility toward their brethren, both in their personal behavior and in their solidarity with the human family. This petition of the Lord's Prayer cannot be isolated from the parables of the poor man Lazarus and of the Last Judgment.[118] 2832 As leaven in the dough, the newness of the kingdom should make the earth "rise" by the Spirit of Christ.[119] This must be shown by the establishment of justice in personal and social, economic and international relations, without ever forgetting that there are no just structures without people who want to be just. 2833 "Our" bread is the "one" loaf for the "many." In the Beatitudes "poverty" is the virtue of sharing: it calls us to communicate and share both material and spiritual goods, not by coercion but out of love, so that the abundance of some may remedy the needs of others.[120] 2834 "Pray and work."[121] "Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you."[122] Even when we have done our work, the food we receive is still a gift from our Father; it is good to ask him for it with thanksgiving, as Christian families do when saying grace at meals. 2835 This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"[123] that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth, "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD."[124] For this reason the specifically Christian sense of this fourth petition concerns the Bread of Life: The Word of God accepted in faith, the Body of Christ received in the Eucharist.[125]
2836 "This day" is also an expression of trust taught us by the Lord,[126]
which we would never have presumed to invent. Since it refers above all to
his Word and to the Body of his Son, this "today" is not only that of our
mortal time, but also the "today" of God.
2837 "Daily" (epiousios) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Taken
in a temporal sense, this word is a pedagogical repetition of "this
day,"[128] to confirm us in trust "without reservation." Taken in the
qualitative sense, it signifies what is necessary for life, and more
broadly every good thing sufficient for subsistence.[129] Taken literally
(epi-ousios: "super-essential"), it refers directly to the Bread of Life,
the Body of Christ, the "medicine of immortality," without which we have
no life within us.[130] Finally in this connection, its heavenly meaning
is evident: "this day" is the Day of the Lord, the day of the feast of the
kingdom, anticipated in the Eucharist that is already the foretaste of the
kingdom to come. For this reason it is fitting for the Eucharistic liturgy
to be celebrated each day.
V. "AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US"2838 This petition is astonishing. If it consisted only of the first phrase, "And forgive us our trespasses," it might have been included, implicitly, in the first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer, since Christ's sacrifice is "that sins may be forgiven." But, according to the second phrase, our petition will not be heard unless we have first met a strict requirement. Our petition looks to the future, but our response must come first, for the two parts are joined by the single word "as." And forgive us our trespasses . . .2839 With bold confidence, we began praying to our Father. In begging him that his name be hallowed, we were in fact asking him that we ourselves might be always made more holy. But though we are clothed with the baptismal garment, we do not cease to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition, we return to him like the prodigal son and, like the tax collector, recognize that we are sinners before him.[133] Our petition begins with a "confession" of our wretchedness and his mercy. Our hope is firm because, in his Son, "we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."[134] We find the efficacious and undoubted sign of his forgiveness in the sacraments of his Church.[135] 2840 Now - and this is daunting - this outpouring of mercy cannot penetrate our hearts as long as we have not forgiven those who have trespassed against us. Love, like the Body of Christ, is indivisible; we cannot love the God we cannot see if we do not love the brother or sister we do see.[136] In refusing to forgive our brothers and sisters, our hearts are closed and their hardness makes them impervious to the Father's merciful love; but in confessing our sins, our hearts are opened to his grace.
2841 This petition is so important that it is the only one to which the
Lord returns and which he develops explicitly in the Sermon on the
Mount.[137] This crucial requirement of the covenant mystery is impossible
for man. But "with God all things are possible."[138]
2842 This "as" is not unique in Jesus' teaching: "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect"; "Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful"; "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."[139] It is impossible to keep the Lord's commandment by imitating the divine model from outside; there has to be a vital participation, coming from the depths of the heart, in the holiness and the mercy and the love of our God. Only the Spirit by whom we live can make "ours" the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.[140] Then the unity of forgiveness becomes possible and we find ourselves "forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave" us.[141] 2843 Thus the Lord's words on forgiveness, the love that loves to the end,[142] become a living reality. The parable of the merciless servant, which crowns the Lord's teaching on ecclesial communion, ends with these words: "So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."[143] It is there, in fact, "in the depths of the heart," that everything is bound and loosed. It is not in our power not to feel or to forget an offense; but the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming the hurt into intercession. 2844 Christian prayer extends to the forgiveness of enemies,[144] transfiguring the disciple by configuring him to his Master. Forgiveness is a high-point of Christian prayer; only hearts attuned to God's compassion can receive the gift of prayer. Forgiveness also bears witness that, in our world, love is stronger than sin. The martyrs of yesterday and today bear this witness to Jesus. Forgiveness is the fundamental condition of the reconciliation of the children of God with their Father and of men with one another.[145]
2845 There is no limit or measure to this essentially divine
forgiveness,[146] whether one speaks of "sins" as in Luke (11:4), "debts"
as in Matthew (6:12). We are always debtors: "Owe no one anything, except
to love one another."[147] The communion of the Holy Trinity is the source
and criterion of truth in every relation ship. It is lived out in prayer,
above all in the Eucharist.[148]
VI. "AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION"2846 This petition goes to the root of the preceding one, for our sins result from our consenting to temptation; we therefore ask our Father not to "lead" us into temptation. It is difficult to translate the Greek verb used by a single English word: the Greek means both "do not allow us to enter into temptation" and "do not let us yield to temptation."[150] "God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one";[151] on the contrary, he wants to set us free from evil. We ask him not to allow us to take the way that leads to sin. We are engaged in the battle "between flesh and spirit"; this petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength.
2847 The Holy Spirit makes us discern between trials, which are necessary
for the growth of the inner man,[152] and temptation, which leads to sin
and death.[153] We must also discern between being tempted and consenting
to temptation. Finally, discernment unmasks the lie of temptation, whose
object appears to be good, a "delight to the eyes" and desirable,[154]
when in reality its fruit is death.
2848 "Lead us not into temptation" implies a decision of the heart: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.... No one can serve two masters."[156] "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."[157] In this assent to the Holy Spirit the Father gives us strength. "No testing has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, so that you may be able to endure it."[158] 2849 Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.[159] In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "custody of the heart," and Jesus prayed for us to the Father: "Keep them in your name."[160] The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch.[161] Finally, this petition takes on all its dramatic meaning in relation to the last temptation of our earthly battle; it asks for final perseverance. "Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake."[162] VII "BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL"2850 The last petition to our Father is also included in Jesus' prayer: "I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one."[163] It touches each of us personally, but it is always "we" who pray, in communion with the whole Church, for the deliverance of the whole human family. The Lord's Prayer continually opens us to the range of God's economy of salvation. Our interdependence in the drama of sin and death is turned into solidarity in the Body of Christ, the "communion of saints."[164] 2851 In this petition, evil is not an abstraction, but refers to a person, Satan, the Evil One, the angel who opposes God. The devil (dia-bolos) is the one who "throws himself across" God's plan and his work of salvation accomplished in Christ.
2852 "A murderer from the beginning, . . . a liar and the father of lies,"
Satan is "the deceiver of the whole world."[165] Through him sin and death
entered the world and by his definitive defeat all creation will be "freed
from the corruption of sin and death."[166] Now "we know that anyone born
of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil
one does not touch him.
2853 Victory over the "prince of this world"[169] was won once for all at the Hour when Jesus freely gave himself up to death to give us his life. This is the judgment of this world, and the prince of this world is "cast out."[170] "He pursued the woman"[171] but had no hold on her: the new Eve, "full of grace" of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, Mary, ever virgin). "Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring."[172] Therefore the Spirit and the Church pray: "Come, Lord Jesus,"[173] since his coming will deliver us from the Evil One.
2854 When we ask to be delivered from the Evil One, we pray as well to be
freed from all evils, present, past, and future, of which he is the author
or instigator. In this final petition, the Church brings before the Father
all the distress of the world. Along with deliverance from the evils that
overwhelm humanity, she implores the precious gift of peace and the grace
of perseverance in expectation of Christ's return By praying in this way,
she anticipates in humility of faith the gathering together of everyone
and everything in him who has "the keys of Death and Hades," who "is and
who was and who is to come, the Almighty."[174]
ARTICLE 4 - THE FINAL DOXOLOGY2855 The final doxology, "For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever," takes up again, by inclusion, the first three petitions to our Father: the glorification of his name, the coming of his reign, and the power of his saving will. But these prayers are now proclaimed as adoration and thanksgiving, as in the liturgy of heaven.[176] The ruler of this world has mendaciously attributed to himself the three titles of kingship, power, and glory.[177] Christ, the Lord, restores them to his Father and our Father, until he hands over the kingdom to him when the mystery of salvation will be brought to its completion and God will be all in all.[178] 2856 "Then, after the prayer is over you say 'Amen,' which means 'So be it,' thus ratifying with our 'Amen' what is contained in the prayer that God has taught us."[179] IN BRIEF2857 In the Our Father, the object of the first three petitions is the glory of the Father: the sanctification of his name, the coming of the kingdom, and the fulfillment of his will. The four others present our wants to him: they ask that our lives be nourished, healed of sin, and made victorious in the struggle of good over evil. 2858 By asking "hallowed be thy name" we enter into God's plan, the sanctification of his name - revealed first to Moses and then in Jesus - by us and in us, in every nation and in each man. 2859 By the second petition, the Church looks first to Christ's return and the final coming of the Reign of God. It also prays for the growth of the Kingdom of God in the "today" of our own lives. 2860 In the third petition, we ask our Father to unite our will to that of his Son, so as to fulfill his plan of salvation in the life of the world. 2861 In the fourth petition, by saying "give us," we express in communion with our brethren our filial trust in our heavenly Father. "Our daily bread" refers to the earthly nourishment necessary to everyone for subsistence, and also to the Bread of Life: the Word of God and the Body of Christ. It is received in God's "today," as the indispensable, (super-) essential nourishment of the feast of the coming Kingdom anticipated in the Eucharist. 2862 The fifth petition begs God's mercy for our offences, mercy which can penetrate our hearts only if we have learned to forgive our enemies, with the example and help of Christ. 2863 When we say "lead us not into temptation" we are asking God not to allow us to take the path that leads to sin. This petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength; it requests the grace of vigilance and final perseverance. 2864 In the last petition, "but deliver us from evil," Christians pray to God with the Church to show forth the victory, already won by Christ, over the "ruler of this world," Satan, the angel personally opposed to God and to his plan of salvation. 2865 By the final "Amen," we express our "fiat" concerning the seven petitions: "So be it." ENDNOTES 1 Lk 11:1. 2 Cf. Lk 11:2-4. 3 Cf. Mt 6:9-13. 4 Didache 8, 2: SCh 248, 174. 5 Apostolic Constitutions, 7, 24, 1: PG 1,1016. 6 Titus 2:13; cf. Roman Missal 22, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer. 7 Tertullian, De orat. 1: PL 1, 1155. 8 Tertullian, De orat. 10: PL 1, 1165; cf. Lk 11:9. 9 St. Augustine, Ep. 130, 12, 22: PL 33, 503. 10 Cf. Lk 24:44. 11 Cf. Mt 5-7. 12 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 83, 9. 13 Cf. Jn 17:7. 14 Cf. Mt 6:7; 1 Kings 18:26-29. 15 Jn 6:63. 16 Gal 4:6. 17 Rom 8:27. 18 Cf. Didache 8, 3: SCh 248, 174. 19 St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Mt. 19, 4: PG 57, 278. 20 1 Pet 1:23. 21 Cf. 1 Pet 2:1-10. 22 1 Jn 3:2; Cf. Col 3:4. 23 1 Cor 11:26. 24 Tertullian, De orat. 1 PL 1, 1251-1255. 25 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II, 83, 9. 26 Ex 3:5. 27 Heb 1:3; 2:13. 28 St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 71, 3: PL 52, 401 CD; cf. Gal 4:6. 29 Cf. Eph 3:12; Heb 3:6; 4:16; 10:19; 1 Jn 2:28; 3:21; 5:14. 30 Mt 11:25-27. 31 Tertullian De orat. 3: PL 1, 1155. 32 Cf. Jn 1:1; 1 Jn 5:1. 33 Cf. 1 Jn 1:3. 34 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 3, 1: PG 33, 1088A. 35 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 9: PL 4, 525A. 36 Cf. GS 22 # 1. 37 St. Ambrose De Sacr. 5, 4, 19: PL 16:450-451. 38 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 11 PL 4:526B. 39 St. John Chrysostom, De orat Dom. 3: PG 51, 44. 40 St. Gregory Of Nyssa, De orat. Dom. 2: PG 44, 1148B. 41 Mt 18:3. 42 Cf. Mt 11:25. 43 St. John Cassian, Coll. 9, 18 PL 49, 788c. 44 St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2, 4, 16: PL 34, 1276. 45 Jn 1:17; Cf. Hos 2:21-22; 6:1-6. 46 Rev 21:7. 47 Cf. 1 Jn 5:1; Jn 3:5. 48 Rom 8:29; Cf. Eph 4:4-6. 49 Acts 4:32. 50 Cf. UR 8; 22. 51 Cf. Mt 5:23-24; 6:14-15. 52 Cf. NA 5. 53 Jn 11:52. 54 St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. in monte 2, 5, 18: PL 34, 1277. 55 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5:11: PG 33, 1117. 56 Cf. Gen 3. 57 Jer 3:19-4:1a; Lk 15:18, 21. 58 Cf. Isa 45:8; Ps 85:12. 59 Jn 3:13; 12:32; 14 2-3; 16:28; 20:17; Eph 4:9-10; Heb 1:3; 2:13. 60 Eph 2:6; Col 3:3. 61 2 Cor 5:2; cf. Phil 3:20; Heb 13:14. 62 Ad Diognetum 5: PG 2, 1173. 63 Ps 42:7. 64 Cf. Lk 22:14; 12:50. 65 Cf. 1 Cor 15:28. 66 Cf. Ps 111:9; Lk 1:49. 67 Eph 1:9, 4. 68 Cf. Ps 8; Isa 6:3. 69 Ps 8:5; Rom 3:23; cf. Gen 1:26. 70 Col 3:10. 71 Cf. Heb 6:13. 72 Ex 15:1 cf. 3:14. 73 Cf. Ex 19:5-6. 74 Ezek 20:9, 14, 22, 39; cf. Lev 19:2. 75 Cf. Mt 1:21; Lk 1:31, Jn 8:28; 17:8; 17:17-19. 76 Jn 17:11, 19. 77 Cf. Ezek 20:39; 36:20-21; Jn 17:6. 78 Phil 2:9-11. 79 2 Cor 6:11. 80 1 Cor 1:30; cf. 1 Thess 4:7. 81 St. Cyprian De Dom. orat. 12: PL 4, 527A; Lev 20:26. 82 St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 71, 4: PL 52:402A; cf. Rom 2:24; Ezek 36:20-22. 83 Tertullian, De orat. 3: PL 1:1157A. 84 Cf. Jn 14:13; 15:16; 16:24, 26. 85 Jn 17:11. 86 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 13 PL 4, 528A. 87 Tertullian, De orat. 5: PL 1,1159A; cf. Heb 4:11; Rev 6:9; 22:20. 88 Cf. Titus 2:13. 89 Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 118. 90 Rom 14:17. 91 Cf. Gal 5:16-25. 92 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5, 13: PG 33, 1120A; cf. Rom 6:12. 93 Cf. GS 22; 32; 39; 45; EN 31. 94 Cf. Jn 17:17-20; Mt 5:13-16; 6:24; 7:12-13. 95 1 Tim 2:3-4. 96 2 Pet 3:9; cf. Mt 18:14. 97 Jn 13:34; cf. 1 Jn 3; 4; Lk 10:25-37. 98 Eph 1:9-11. 99 Heb 10:7; Ps 40:7. 100 Jn 8:29. 101 Lk 22:42; cf. Jn 4:34; 5:30; 6:38. 102 Gal 1:4. 103 Heb 10:10. 104 Heb 5:8. 105 Cf. Jn 8:29. 106 Origen, De orat. 26 PG 11, 501B. 107 St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in Mt. 19, 5 PG 57, 280. 108 Rom 12:2; Cf. Eph 5:17; Cf. Heb 10:36. 109 Mt 7:21. 110 Jn 9:31; Cf. 1 Jn 5:14. 111 Cf. Lk 1:38, 49. 112 St. Augustine, De serm. Dom. 2, 6, 24: PL 34, 1279. 113 Mt 5:45. 114 PS 104:27. 115 Cf. Mt 6:25-34. 116 Cf. 2 Thess 3:6-13. 117 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 21 PL 4, 534A. 118 Cf. Lk 16:19-31; Mt 25:31-46. 119 Cf. AA 5. 120 Cf. 2 Cor 8:1-15. 121 Cf. St. Benedict Regula, 20, 48. 122 Attributed to St. Ignatius Loyola, cf. Joseph de Guibert, SJ, The Jesuits: Their Spiritual Doctrine and Practice, (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1964), 148, n. 55. 123 Deut 8:3; Mt 4:4. 124 Am 8:11. 125 Cf. Jn 6:26-58. 126 Cf. Mt 6:34; Ex 16:19. 127 St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5, 4, 26: PL 16, 453A; cf. Ps 2:7. 128 Cf. Ex 16:19-21. 129 Cf. 1 Tim 6:8. 130 St. Ignatius Of Antioch, Ad Eph. 20, 2 PG 5, 661; Jn 6:53-56. 131 St. Augustine, Sermo 57, 7: PL 38, 389. 132 St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermo 67 PL 52, 392; Cf. Jn 6:51. 133 Cf. Lk 15:11-32, 18:13. 134 Col 1:14; Eph 1:7. 135 Cf. Mt 26:28; Jn 20:23. 136 Cf. l Jn 4:20. 137 Cf. Mt 6:14-15; 5:23-24; Mk 11:25. 138 Mt 19:26. 139 Mt 5:48; Lk 6:36; Jn 13:34. 140 Cf. Gal 5:25; Phil 2:1,5. 141 Eph 4:32. 142 Cf. Jn 13:1. 143 Cf. Mt 18:23-35. 144 Cf. Mt 5:43-44. 145 Cf. 2 Cor 5:18-21; John Paul II, DM 14. 146 Cf. Mt 18:21-22; Lk 17:3-4. 147 Rom 13:8. 148 Cf. Mt 5:23-24; 1 Jn 3:19-24. 149 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 23: PL 4, 535-536; cf. Mt 5:24. 150 Cf. Mt 26 41. 151 Jas 113. 152 Cf. Lk. 8:13-15; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; 2 Tim 3:12. 153 Cf. Jas 1:14-15. 154 Cf. Gen 3:6. 155 Origen, De orat. 29 PG 11, 544CD. 156 Mt 6:21, 24. 157 Gal 5:25. 158 1 Cor 10:13. 159 Cf. Mt 4:1-11; 26:36-44. 160 Jn 17:11; Cf. Mk 13:9, 23, 33-37; 14:38; Lk 12:35-40. 161 Cf. 1 Cor 16:13; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 5:6; 1 Pet 5:8. 162 Rev 16:15. 163 Jn 17:15. 164 Cf. RP 16. 165 Jn 8:44; Rev 12:9. 166 Roman Missal, Eucharistic Prayer IV, 125. 167 1 Jn 5:18-19. 168 St. Ambrose, De Sacr. 5, 4, 30: PL 16, 454; cf. Rom 8:31. 169 Jn 14:30. 170 Jn 12:31; Rev 12:10. 171 Rev 12:13-16. 172 Rev 12:17. 173 Rev 22:17,20. 174 Rev 1:8,18; cf. Rev 1:4; Eph 1:10. 175 Roman Missal, Embolism after the Lord's Prayer, 126: Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, da propitius pacem in diebus nostris, ut, ope misericordiae tuae adiuti, et a peccato simus semper liberi, et ab omni perturbatione securi: expectantes beatam spem et adventum Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi. 176 Cf. Rev 1:6; 4:11; 5:13. 177 Cf. Lk 4:5-6. 178 1 Cor 15:24-28. 179 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 5,18: PG 33, 1124; cf. Cf. Lk 1:38. |
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