The Lords Prayer To explain the petitions of

The Lord’s Prayer • To explain the petitions of the Lord’s prayer • To explain how the Lord’s prayer can make us more like Jesus • To reflect on how prayer can change things. Highlight or underline the words or phrases in the prayer that you don’t understand the meaning of. Write out 3 of them. Who art. . temptation Hallowed be trespasses Thy kingdom Deliver us

The Lord’s Prayer When the disciples saw Jesus praying, they also wanted the close connection Jesus had with God. So they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. So Jesus taught them the “Our Father” prayer. It tells us the right attitude to have towards God. 1. Why is the Our Father prayer an important prayer to know? Think of 2 reasons. **Why do you think the disciples wanted Jesus to teach them how to pray, when they saw him praying?

1. Write out the correct meaning for each line in the Lord’s Prayer. 2. Which line means the most to you, when you pray it? Why? **What sort of attitude does this prayer teach you to have? Look at one or two of the lines, and see what you can find. 1 a. We are praying to the man who started the human race, who has died and is in heaven. 1 b. We pray to God, who is a Father to us, because He made us who we are & cares for us. 2 a. God lives in heaven, which is also our true, eternal home. 2 b. God is a long way away from us and we cannot reach Him. 3 a. We pray God himself will keep His name respected among us. 3 b. We should make God special, because otherwise God would just be normal. 4 a. We pray God rules in peoples’ hearts so they become good. 4 b. We pray that God comes down to earth and takes over governments. 5 a. We pray that people will be forced to follow God 5 b. We pray that God will help people do what He thinks is best 6 a. We ask God to give us what we need to live by, day by day 6 b. We pray for God to give us what we want and desire, day by day. 7 a. We pray for God to forgive us, even if we don’t forgive others. 7 b. We pray for God to forgives us, but only if we agree to forgive others. 8 a. We ask God not to be our leader in doing evil. 8 b. We ask God not to put us in difficult situations & to stand by us in our weakness. 9 a. We ask God that evil will not have power over us and to rescue us from its grip. 9 b. We ask God to destroy evil so that it no longer exists.

1. The “Our Father” prayer can be divided into 3 parts: • About God • About Us • About Evil 1. Colour code three sections. 2. Explain how the Our Father is in these 3 sections. The first 3 points are about God. This is important because… Nos. 4 -7 are about us and this is important because… Nos. 8 & 9 are about evil and this is important because. . . **Why do you think the Our Father prayer is in this order: about God – then Us – then Evil ? The Pope Explains: “First, we must know who God is, and that God comes first. Nothing can turn out well unless our relationship to God is right. So we pray to Our Father first, and only then about what we need. Finally, being right with God and with ourselves, we can pray against evil, to resist it. ” Pope Benedict XVI Jesus of Nazareth, vol. 2

God Us Evil Think of a way of signing the Our Father prayer, to someone who can’t hear.

Homework Choose one of the prayers in the Lord’s Prayer. 1. Describe in detail a situation where you wish it would happen. 2. Explain how it could come true (remember God doesn’t answer prayers in “magical” ways – like in the story of the Drowning man!) 3. Explain why it is important to ask God’s help in this situation.