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CHRISTIAN PRAYERS

• The Lord's Prayer (Church of England version)
• General Notes
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• Pedagogic Notes

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Christian Prayers

The Lord's Prayer

(Church of England Version)

Our Father (who/which) art in Heaven,

Hallowed be Thy name 

Thy Kingdom come. 

Thy Will be done, on Earth, 

As it is in Heaven. 

Give us this day, our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses, 

As we forgive those who trespass against us. 

And lead us not into temptation, 

But deliver us from evil: 

For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, 

For ever and ever. 

AMEN

• In the first line, sometimes WHICH is used, instead of WHO;   WHO is grammatically correct if you are referring to a person.
• The last two lines are not used in the Catholic version of The Lord's Prayer.
• There are more recent versions of the Lord's Prayer, but the above version is the traditional one, which I learnt as a child.  The important thing is that the Lord's Prayer is at its most powerful when  Christians,  all over the world, coincide with the same version.

Modern versions of The Lord's Prayer offer different wording.   If relevant, comparisons could be made between the two versions, in order to gauge:-

• how the English language is changing
• which version carries the most impact

INTERNET RESEARCH TASK:  Find other versions of the Lord's Prayer and compare with the one above.

Rules:

• Each new line must begin with a capital letter
• Any pronoun, or possessive adjective, which refers directly to God must have a capital letter. (e.g. You, Your, His, etc.)
• Any noun which 'belongs to God' must have a capital letter.  (e.g.  His Word, His Son, etc)
• Verbs do NOT have capital letters.
• Anything which refers, or belongs to us, or anyone else, does NOT have a capital letter (our world, my pets, etc.), otherwise, it would make ‘us’ as important as God

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