Selected quotes of Pope Benedict XVI offered daily for prayer and reflection….

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The Lord\'s Prayer
 


"Thy Kingdom come." We pray that God's will may here and now determine our own will, and that in this way, God can reign in the world.

 
Homily
Munich, Germany
10 September 2006

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


This is what we ask for when we pray: 'Thy Kingdom Come'...we pray that justice and love may become the decisive forces affecting our world.

 
Homily
Munich, Germany
10 September 2006

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


On earth, as it is in heaven…'earth' becomes 'heaven' - the place where love, goodness, truth and divine beauty are present - only if the will of God is done.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
1 February 2012

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


By identifying ourselves with Christ in his prayer to the Father, we rediscover our deepest identity as Christians, as children of “Our Father who art in heaven”.

 
General Audience
St Peter's Square
3 October 2012

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


When we pray the Our Father …we ask the Lord that 'your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven'. In other words, we recognize that God has a will for us and with us, that God has a will for our lives, and each day this must increasingly become the reference point for our desires and our existence.

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
1 February 2012

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


The words of the Lord’s Prayer imprint themselves in our memory, mold our lives, they accompany us up to our last breath. They reveal that we are not already completely children of God, but we must become them and be them ... through our ever deeper communion with Jesus.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
25 July 2010

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


Every time we say the Our Father our voices mingle with the voice of the Church; for those who pray are never alone.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
25 July 2010

 
 
 
The Lord\'s Prayer
 


Jesus does not make objections, He does not speak of strange or esoteric formulas, but with great simplicity He says: 'When you are praying, say, “Father”...,' and he taught the Our Father, taking it from his own prayer, with which he addressed God, his Father.

 
Angelus Address
Castel Gandolfo
25 July 2010

 

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