Let me share it with you...
God, source of all our activity, we offer our prayer to you as we say: Our Father who is in heaven.
When we see the gifts, generosity and potential in each other, Lord, teach us to pray: Holy be your name.
When we think of the future as fixed and impossible to change, Lord, teach us to pray: Your kingdom come.
When we evade the challenges and deep demands of life by saying they are too idealistic, Lord, teach us to pray: Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
As we try to live and spread the Gospel message of love, peace and joy, we need to be strengthened and nourished by your presence and grace. Lord, teach us to pray: Give us this day our daily bread.
When we are faced with pressures that are likely to be too much for us. Lord teach us to pray: Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
That we may constantly realize that it is your work that we do in building the Kingdom of God. Lord, teach us to pray: Yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
It was said that when Jesus was alive he used the Aramic language to talk, preach and do his ministry. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray it was said that he recited it in Aramaic. I share with you the very words Jesus used to teach his disciples how to pray. Let us pray with them...
(in the original Aramaic)
Abwûn
"Oh Thou, from whom the breath of life comes,
d'bwaschmâja
who fills all realms of sound, light and vibration.
Nethkâdasch schmach
May Your light be experienced in my utmost holiest.
Têtê malkuthach.
Your Heavenly Domain approaches.
Nehwê tzevjânach aikâna d'bwaschmâja af b'arha.
Let Your will come true - in the universe (all that vibrates)
just as on earth (that is material and dense).
Hawvlân lachma d'sûnkanân jaomâna.
Give us wisdom (understanding, assistance) for our daily need,
Waschboklân chaubên wachtahên aikâna
daf chnân schwoken l'chaijabên.
detach the fetters of faults that bind us, (karma)
like we let go the guilt of others.
Wela tachlân l'nesjuna
Let us not be lost in superficial things (materialism, common temptations),
ela patzân min bischa.
but let us be freed from that what keeps us off from our true purpose.
Metol dilachie malkutha wahaila wateschbuchta
l'ahlâm almîn.
From You comes the all-working will, the lively strength to act,
the song that beautifies all and renews itself from age to age.
Amên.
Sealed in trust, faith and truth.
(I confirm with my entire being)
First was the Prayer to the Guardian Angel and Graces before Meals (hehehe!).
I consider the Our Father as the perfect prayer. Though categorized as a "memorized prayer", still, it can be prayed wholeheartedly.
It is the most complete prayer one can utter. Pope John Paul II said,
"Everything that can and must be said to the Father is contained in those 7 requests which we all know by heart. There is such a simplicity in them that even a child can learn them, but at the same time such a depth that a whole life can be spent meditating on their meaning".
Let us pray the Our Father with faith like a child's, with hope like that of a mother waiting for the birth of her offspring and with love like that of His Son Jesus...
It is in praying that we experience God Himself.
Yan ang sabi ni Manang! :)