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Understanding “Our Father”: Biblical Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

The prayer at hand has been called many things: the Pater Noster, the Our Father, the Model Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer. In Understanding “Our Father,” Dr. Scott Hahn presents a unique meditation on this common prayer, leading readers to consider its wealth of meaning. Relying on the Fathers and Doctors of the Church as well as on Sacred Scripture, Dr. Hahn takes each of the seven petitions of the...

Jesus promised us a Kingdom, and He kept His promise. When His Father raised Him from the dead, He established through His own resurrected Body (which is the Eucharist) His Mystical Body (which is the Kingdom). He said, “[T]he kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt. 3:2). And so it is—it is as near as our local parish. For where the King is present, there is the Kingdom. And where the Eucharist is, there is the King. “The Kingdom of God has been coming since the Last Supper,” says the Catechism,
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