A Topic of Moral Theology

The Lord's Prayer

The prayer Christ himself taught: its address, its seven petitions, and the Amen that seals it.

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our father · the pater noster (ed.)

In the index as God · Amen · Confidence in God · Father · Angels · Charity · Creation · Duty · Fervor · Gratitude · Illumination · Impetration · Lord's Prayer · Order of the Creed · Our · Our Father · Piety · Prayer · Providence · Psalms · Redemption · Sweetness

In the manuals

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. II, Q. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § 2, 1. What Things Can Be Asked in Prayer?, n. 339 — 339. Scholion. On the Lord's Prayer. St. Thomas demonstrates excellently that in the Lord's Prayer all things whatsoever which we can lawfully ask from God by praying are contained in perfect order. Since the Lord's Pray… Read in context →

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. III, Disputation III: On Prayer, Question VI: What is to be asked in prayer, where the petitions of the Lord's Prayer are expounded, nn. 1–50 (50 passages)

The Catechism of the Council of Trent (The Roman Catechism)

Part IV. The Lord’s Prayer, Opening Words of the Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father Who Art in Heaven”, nn. ¶1–¶42 (42 passages)

Pt. IV, The Seal of the Lord’s Prayer: “Amen”, nn. ¶1–¶22 (22 passages)

The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Christian Religion

Pt. III, IV. PRAYER, THE MOST IMPORTANT PRAYERS, THE OUR FATHER, nn. ¶1–¶31 (31 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Prayer — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases I · The Casuist · St. Alphonsus, True Spouse and 3 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)