Print the Lord's Prayer in Russian. and do not lead us into temptation
All about the main prayer of Christians, “Our Father.”
Researchers of human nature have long noted the fact that a person, sometimes completely unconsciously, feels the need for prayer. Even atheists and agnostics resort to prayer at critical moments in their lives.
A person remembers the prayer “Our Father” when he feels the need to communicate with the only all-forgiving and all-understanding Friend.
“Our Father” (other names - “Lord’s Prayer”, “Prayer of the Faithful”) is considered a universal prayer that is appropriate to read in any life circumstances, regardless of the time of day and place of prayer. By and large, this prayer
- helps a person to understand both his individual needs and reality,
- leads to repentance and gives a feeling of forgiveness,
- awakens faith and hope,
- helps overcome fear, tension, anger,
- helps to understand the prospects for overcoming problems,
- defines goals and helps you concentrate on achieving them,
- restores psycho-emotional state,
- produces a general therapeutic effect.
The prayer “Our Father like You” in Old Church Slavonic, with emphasis. The prayer “Our Father like You” translated into Russian in full: words, text
The liturgical tradition of the Church preserves the text of the Evangelist Matthew (MT. 6:9-13).
Below is the Church Slavonic text of the prayer and its modern spelling.
The Lord's Prayer: Old Church Slavonic text in modern spelling with accents Important: The Church Slavonic language was specially created for the worship of the Orthodox Slavs. There is no letter "Y" in this language. All words are read as they are written. During prayer, you should also pay close attention to the accents.
You will find the interpretation of Church Slavonic expressions in the table.
The “Lord’s Prayer” in modern Russian sounds like this:
“Our Father” in modern Russian Prayer “Our Father like You”: interpretation, power of prayer
The prayer is divided into several parts:
- call,
- seven requests;
- vocabulary.
Call: with the words of invocation, believers turn to the Lord and ask to listen to their requests.
Invocation in the Lord's Prayer First request: about help to live in accordance with the commandments of true Christians.
The first request in the Lord's Prayer Second request a: to honor believers with the Kingdom of God in their earthly existence.
Second request in the Lord's Prayer Third request emphasizes man’s readiness to accept any of His will absolutely resignedly and submissively.
The third request in the Lord's Prayer Fourth request: about our daily bread. In this case, the concept of “bread” includes everything necessary for human life on earth: food, clothing, a roof over one’s head. And also the Sacrament of Holy Communion (without it there is no salvation and no eternal life).
The fourth request in the Lord's Prayer Fifth request: about forgiveness of sins. True believers know that He gave people enough strength and talent to do good, but people often turn these gifts into evil. And if a person does not forgive those who have offended him, then he may not receive forgiveness for his mistakes.
The fifth request in the Lord's Prayer Sixth request: in protection from temptation. After all, a person is weak enough and cannot avoid temptation.
The sixth request in the Lord's Prayer Seventh request about protection from all evil in this world.
The seventh request in the Lord's Prayer At the end of the prayer, a dictionary may be read.
When and how correctly and how many times should one read the Lord’s Prayer?
The first and most important rule: you need to pray sincerely.
Home prayer:
- read in the morning (after waking up) and in the evening (before going to bed), as well as before eating. Minimum - morning and evening;
- if there are icons at home, pray in front of them,
- before praying, be sure to ask for forgiveness for your sins,
- be sure to listen to the words you pronounce, be aware of them,
- never pray for material benefits or punishment for another person. Such a prayer will not be heard.
Prayer in church:
- You can come at any time when the temple is open, or you can pray during the service.
Why do you need to read the Lord's Prayer forty times?
Repeated repetition of prayer serves as a powerful shield from all troubles and misfortunes, incl. fatal.
How the Lord's Prayer helps in life: examples
Unfortunately, it is easier for a person to believe in bad things than in good things. In the case of prayers, things are even more complicated: often we don’t even know when exactly prayer helped us.
And even in this case, you can find many examples of how sincere prayer helps fight physical illness.
How the Lord's Prayer helps in life How the Lord's Prayer helps in lifeAnd this incident occurred in 2016, when a plane heading to the Dominican Republic was forced to make an emergency landing.
How the Lord's Prayer helps in life Who left the Lord's Prayer to people?
What is the power of the Lord's Prayer? And why do we resort to it in difficult life circumstances? Perhaps because this prayer was given to us by Jesus himself. In form it is similar to traditional Jewish prayers and is a kind of generalization of the Sermon of the Mount.
Video: Prayer "Our Father". Full interpretation. Part I
Our Father,
When the skies roar and the oceans roar, they call to You: Our Lord of hosts, Lord of the hosts of heaven!
When the stars fall and fire bursts out of the earth, they say to You: Our Creator!
When in the spring the flowers open their buds and the larks collect dry blades of grass to build a nest for their chicks, they sing to you: Our lord!
And when I raise my eyes to Your throne, I whisper to You: Our Father!
There was a time, a long and terrible time, when people called You Lord of Hosts, or Creator, or Master! Yes, then man felt that he was only a creature among creatures. But now, thanks to Your Only Begotten and Greatest Son, we have learned Your real name. Therefore, I, together with Jesus Christ, decide to call You: Father!
If I call you: Vladyko, I fall on my face in fear before You, like a slave in a crowd of slaves.
If I call you: Creator, I am moving away from You, as the night is separated from the day, or as a leaf is torn from its tree.
If I look at You and tell You: Mister, then I am like a stone among stones or a camel among camels.
But if I open my mouth and whisper: Father, love will take the place of fear, the earth will seem to become closer to heaven, and I will go for a walk with You, as with a friend, in the garden of this light and will share Your glory, Your strength, Your suffering.
Our Father! You are the Father for us all, and I would humiliate both You and myself if I called You: My Father!
Our Father! You care not only about me, one single blade of grass, but about everyone and everything in the world. Your goal is Your Kingdom, not one person. Selfishness in me calls You: My Father, but love calls: Our Father!
In the name of all people, my brothers, I pray: Our Father!
In the name of all the creatures that surround me and with whom You have woven my life, I pray to You: Our Father!
I pray to You, Father of the Universe, for only one thing I pray to You: may the dawn of the day come soon when all people, living and dead, together with angels and stars, animals and stones, will call You by Your true name: Our Father!
Who is in heaven!
We raise our eyes to heaven every time we cry to You, and lower our eyes to the ground when we remember our sins. We are always below, at the very bottom because of our weakness and our sins. You are always on top, as befits Your greatness and Your holiness.
You are in heaven when we are not worthy to receive You. But You joyfully descend to us, into our earthly abodes, when we greedily strive for You and open the doors to You.
Although You condescend to us, You still remain in heaven. You live in heaven, you walk in heaven, and together with heaven you descend into our valleys.
Heaven is far, too far from the person who rejects You in spirit and heart, or who laughs when Your name is mentioned. However, heaven is close, very close to a person who has opened the gates of his soul and is waiting for You, our dearest Guest, to come.
If we compare the most righteous person with You, then You rise above him like the heavens above the valley of the earth, like eternal life above the kingdom of death.
We are made of corruptible, perishable material - how could we stand on the same peak with You, Immortal Youth and Strength!
Our Father Who is always above us, bow down to us and lift us up to Himself. What are we if not tongues created from the dust of Your glory! The dust would be forever mute and would not be able to pronounce Your name without us, Lord. How could the dust know You if not through us? How could You work miracles if not through us?
Oh Our Father!
Hallowed be Thy name;
You do not become holier from our praises, however, by glorifying You, we make ourselves holier. Your name is wonderful! People bicker about names - whose name is better? It is good that Your name is sometimes remembered in these disputes, for at that very moment the speaking tongues become silent in indecision because all the great human names, woven into a beautiful wreath, cannot compare with Your name, Holy God, Most Holy!
When people want to glorify Your name, they ask nature to help them. They take stone and wood and build temples. People decorate altars with pearls and flowers and light fire with plants, their sisters; and they take incense from the cedars, their brothers; and give strength to their voices by the ringing of bells; and call the animals to glorify Your name. Nature is pure as Your stars and innocent as Your angels, Lord! Have mercy on us for the sake of pure and innocent nature, which sings Your holy name with us, Holy God, Most Holy!
How can we glorify Your name?
Maybe innocent joy? - then have mercy on us for the sake of our innocent children.
Maybe suffering? - then look at our graves.
Or self-sacrifice? - then remember the torment of the Mother, Lord!
Your name is stronger than steel and brighter than light. Good is the man who places his hope in You and becomes wiser through Your name.
Fools say: “We are armed with steel, so who can fight us back?” And You destroy kingdoms with tiny insects!
Your name is terrible, Lord! It illuminates and burns like a huge cloud of fire. There is nothing holy or terrible in the world that is not associated with Your name. Oh, Holy God, give me as friends those who have Your name engraved in their hearts, and as enemies those who do not even want to know about You. For such friends will remain my friends until death, and such enemies will fall to their knees before me and submit as soon as their swords are broken.
Holy and terrible is Your name, Holy God, Most Holy! May we remember Your name in every moment of our life, both in moments of joy and in moments of weakness, and let us remember it in our hour of death, our Heavenly Father, Holy God!
Thy kingdom come;
May Your Kingdom come, O Great King!
We are sick of kings who only imagined themselves to be greater than other people, and who now lie in their graves next to beggars and slaves.
We are sick of the kings who yesterday declared their power over countries and peoples, and today are crying from toothache!
They are disgusting, like clouds that bring ashes instead of rain.
“Look, here is a wise man. Give him the crown! - the crowd shouts. The crown doesn't care whose head it's on. But You, Lord, know the value of the wisdom of the wise and the power of mortals. Do I need to repeat to You what You know? Need I say that the wisest among us ruled over us madly?
“Look, here is a strong man. Give him the crown! - the crowd shouts again; This is a different time, another generation. The crown silently moves from head to head, but You, Omnipotent, you know the price of the spiritual power of the exalted and the power of the strong. You know about the weakness of the strong and those in power.
We finally understood, after suffering, that there is no other king but You. Our soul passionately desires Your Kingdom and Your Power. Wandering everywhere, haven’t we, living descendants, received enough insults and wounds on the graves of small kings and the ruins of kingdoms? Now we pray to You for help.
Let it appear on the horizon Your Kingdom! Your Kingdom of Wisdom, Fatherland and Strength! Let this land, which has been a battlefield for thousands of years, become a home where You are the master and we are the guests. Come, King, an empty throne awaits You! With You will come harmony, and with harmony comes beauty. All other kingdoms are disgusting to us, so we are waiting now You, Great King, You and Your Kingdom!
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
Heaven and earth are Your fields, Father. In one field You sow stars and angels, in another you sow thorns and people. The stars move according to Your will. The angels play the stars like a harp, according to Your will. However, a man meets a man and asks: “What is God's will?»
How long does man not want to know Your will? How long will he humble himself before the thorns under his feet? You created man to be equal to the angels and stars, but look - even thorns surpass him.
But you see, Father, a person, if he wants, can glorify Your name better than thorns, just like angels and stars. Oh, You, Spirit-Giver and Voled-Giver, give man Your Will.
Your will wise, clear and holy. Your will moves the heavens, so why not the same will move the earth, which in comparison with the heavens is like a drop before the ocean?
You never get tired, working with wisdom, Our Father. There is no place for any stupidity in Your plan. Now You are as fresh in wisdom and goodness now as on the first day of creation, and tomorrow you will be the same as today.
Your will holy because she is wise and fresh. Holiness is inseparable from You, like air from us.
Anything unholy may ascend to heaven, but nothing unholy will ever come down from heaven, from Your throne, Father.
We pray to You, our Holy Father: make the day come quickly when the will of all people will be wise, fresh and holy, like Your will, and when all creatures on earth will move in harmony with the stars in the sky; and when our planet will sing in choir with all Your amazing stars:
God, teach us!
God, lead us!
Father, save us!
Give us this day our daily bread;
He who gives the body also gives the soul; and He who gives air also gives bread. Your children, merciful Gifter, expect from You everything they need.
Who will brighten their faces in the morning if not You with Your light?
Who will watch over their breath at night while they sleep, if not You, the most tireless of all watchmen?
Where would we sow our daily bread if not in Your field? How could we refresh ourselves if not Your morning dew? How would we live without Your light and Your air? How could we eat if not with the lips that You have given us?
How could we rejoice and thank You for being full, if not for the spirit that You breathed into lifeless dust and created a miracle out of it, You, the most amazing Creator?
I do not ask you for my bread, but about our bread. What good would it do if I had bread, and my brothers starved next to me? It would be better and more just if You took away from me the bitter bread of the selfish, for satisfied hunger is sweeter if shared with a brother. Your will cannot be such that one person thanks You, and hundreds curse You.
Our Father, give us our bread, so that we glorify You in a harmonious choir and so that we joyfully remember our Heavenly Father. Today we pray for today.
This day is great, many new beings were born today. Thousands of new creations, which did not exist yesterday and which will no longer exist tomorrow, are born today under the same sunlight, fly with us on one of Your stars and together with us say to You: our bread.
O great Master! We are Your guests from morning to evening, we are invited to Your meal and wait for Your bread. No one except You has the right to say: my bread. He is yours.
No one except You has the right to tomorrow and to tomorrow’s bread, only You and those of today’s guests whom You invite.
If it is Your will that the end of today be the dividing line between my life and death, I will bow to Your holy will.
If it be Your will, tomorrow I will again be a companion of the great sun and a guest at Your table, and I will repeat my gratitude to You, as I constantly repeat day after day.
And I will bow before Your will again and again, as the angels in heaven do, the Giver of all gifts, physical and spiritual!
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
It is easier for a person to sin and break Your laws, Father, than to understand them. However, it is not easy for You to forgive us our sins if we do not forgive those who sin against us. For You founded the world on measure and order. How can there be balance in the world if You have one measure for us, and we have another for our neighbors? Or if You give us bread, and we give our neighbors a stone? Or if You forgive us our sins, and we execute our neighbors for their sins? How then would measure and order be maintained in the world, O Lawgiver?
And yet You forgive us more than we can forgive our brothers. We defile the earth every day and every night with our crimes, and You greet us every morning with the clear eye of Your sun and every night You send Your merciful forgiveness through the stars, which stand as holy guards at the gates of Your Kingdom, Our Father!
You shame us every day, Most Merciful, for when we expect punishment, You send us mercy. When we wait for Your thunder, You send us a peaceful evening, and when we expect darkness, You give us sunlight.
You are eternally exalted above our sins and always great in Your silent patience.
It’s hard for a fool who thinks that he will alarm You with crazy speeches! He is like a child who angrily throws a pebble into the waves to drive the sea away from the shore. But the sea will only wrinkle the surface of the waters and continue to irritate weakness with its enormous power.
Look, our sins are common sins, we are all together responsible for the sins of everyone. Therefore, there are no pure righteous people on earth, for all righteous people must take upon themselves some of the sins of sinners. It is hard to be an immaculately righteous person, for there is not a single righteous person who does not bear the burden of at least one sinner on his shoulders. However, Father, the more a righteous person bears the sins of sinners, the more righteous he is.
Our heavenly Father, You, Who send bread from morning to evening to your children and accept their sins as payment, lighten the burden of the righteous and dispel the darkness of sinners!
The earth is full of sins, but also full of prayers; it is full of the prayers of the righteous and the despair of sinners. But isn't despair the beginning of prayer?
And in the end you will be the winner. Your Kingdom will stand on the prayers of the righteous. Your will will become a law for people, just as Your will is a law for angels.
Otherwise, why would You, our Father, hesitate to forgive the sins of mortals, because by doing so You give us an example of forgiveness and mercy?
and do not lead us into temptation,
Oh, how little it takes for a person to turn away from You and turn to idols!
He is surrounded by temptations like storms, and he is weak as foam on the crest of a stormy mountain stream.
If he is rich, he immediately begins to think that he is equal to You, or places You after himself, or even decorates his house with Your faces as luxury items.
When evil knocks at his gates, he falls into the temptation to bargain with You or throw You away completely.
If You call him to sacrifice himself, he becomes indignant. If You send him to death, he trembles.
If You offer him all earthly pleasures, in temptation he poisons and kills his own soul.
If You reveal to his eyes the laws of Your care, he grumbles: “The world is wonderful in itself, and without a Creator.”
We are embarrassed by Your holiness, O our Holy God. When You call us to the light, we, like moths at night, rush into the darkness, but, rushing into the darkness, we seek the light.
A network of many roads stretches out before us, but we are afraid to reach the end of any of them, because temptation awaits and beckons us at any edge.
And the path that leads to You is blocked by many temptations and many, many failures. Before temptation comes, it seems to us that You accompany us like a bright cloud. However, when temptation begins, You disappear. We turn around in concern and silently ask ourselves: what is our mistake, where are you, are you there or are you not?
In all our temptations we ask ourselves: “Are You really our Father?” All our temptations throw into our minds the same questions that the whole world around us asks us day after day and night after night:
“What do you think about the Lord?”
“Where is He and who is He?”
“Are you with Him or without Him?”
Give me strength Father and Creator mine, so that at any moment of my life I can correctly respond to every possible temptation.
The Lord is the Lord. He is where I am and where I am not.
I give Him my passionate heart and stretch out my hands to His holy robes, I reach out to Him like a child to its beloved Father.
How could I live without Him? This means that I could live without myself.
How can I be against Him? This means that I will be against myself.
A righteous son follows his father with honor, peace and joy.
Blow Your inspiration into our souls, Our Father, so that we may become Your righteous sons.
but deliver us from evil.
Who will free us from evil if not You, our Father?
Who will reach out to drowning children if not their father?
Who cares more about the cleanliness and beauty of the house, if not its owner?
You created us from nothing and made something out of us, but we are drawn to evil and again turn into nothing.
We warm to our hearts the snake that we fear more than anything in the world.
With all our strength we rebel against darkness, but still darkness lives in our souls, sowing the germs of death.
We are all unanimously against evil, but evil is slowly creeping into our home and, while we scream and protest against evil, it takes one position after another, getting closer and closer to our hearts.
Oh, Almighty Father, stand between us and evil, and we will lift up our hearts, and evil will dry up like a puddle on the road under the hot sun.
You are high above us and do not know how evil grows, but we are suffocating under it. Look, evil is growing in us day after day, spreading its abundant fruits everywhere.
The sun greets us every day with “Good morning!” and asks what can we show our great King? And we demonstrate only the old, broken fruits of evil. Oh, God, truly dust, motionless and inanimate, is purer than a person who is in the service of evil!
Look, we built our homes in the valleys and hid in caves. It is not at all difficult for You to command Your rivers to flood all our valleys and caves and wipe out humanity from the face of the earth, washing it away from our dirty deeds.
But You are above our anger and our advice. If you had listened to human advice, You would have already destroyed the world to the ground and You Yourself would have perished under the ruins.
O Wise One among fathers! You smile forever in Your divine beauty and immortality. Look, the stars grow from Your smile! With a smile You turn our evil into good, and graft the Tree of Good onto the tree of evil, and with endless patience you ennoble our uncultivated Garden of Eden. You patiently heal and patiently create. You are patiently building Your Kingdom of goodness, Our King and Our Father. We pray to You: free us from evil and fill us with good, for You abolish evil and fill us with good.
For Thine is the Kingdom,
The stars and the sun are citizens of Your Kingdom, Our Father. Enroll us in Your shining army.
Our planet is small and dark, but this is Your work, Your creation and Your inspiration. What else can come out of Your hands but something great? But still, with our insignificance and darkness, we make our habitat small and gloomy. Yes, the earth is small and gloomy every time we call it our kingdom and when we say in madness that we are its kings.
Look how many among us are those who were kings on earth and who now, standing on the ruins of their thrones, are surprised and ask: “Where are all our kingdoms?” There are many kingdoms that do not know what happened to their kings. Blessed and happy is the man who looks into the sky-high heights and whispers the words that I hear: Yours is the Kingdom!
What we call our earthly kingdom is full of worms and fleeting, like bubbles in deep water, like clouds of dust on the wings of the wind! Only You have the true Kingdom, and only Your Kingdom has a King. Take us off the wings of the wind and take us to You, merciful King! Save us from the wind! And make us citizens of Your eternal Kingdom near Your stars and the sun, among Your angels and archangels, let us be close to You, Our Father!
and strength,
Yours is the power, for Yours is the kingdom. False kings are weak. Their royal power lies only in their royal titles, which are truly Your titles. They are wandering dust, and dust flies wherever the wind blows. We are just wanderers, shadows and flying dust. But even when we wander and wander, we are moved by Your power. By Your power we were created and by Your power we will live. If a person does good, he does it with Your power through You, but if a person does evil, he does it with Your power, but through himself. Everything that is done is done by Your power, used for good or abused. If a man, Father, uses Your power according to Your will, then Your power will be Yours, but if a man uses Your power according to His own will, then Your power is called his power and will be evil.
I think, Lord, that when You yourself have Your strength at your disposal, then it is good, but when the beggars who borrowed strength from You proudly dispose of it as their own, it becomes evil. Therefore, there is one Owner, but there are many evil stewards and users of Your power, which You graciously distribute at Your rich table to these unfortunate mortals on earth.
Look at us, Almighty Father, look at us and do not rush to bestow Your power on the dust of the earth until the palaces there are ready for it: good will and humility. Good will - to use the received divine gift for good deeds, and humility - to forever remember that all the power in the universe belongs to You, great Power-Giver.
Your power is holy and wise. But in our hands Your power is in danger of being desecrated and can become sinful and insane.
Our Father, who art in heaven, help us to know and do only one thing: to know that all power is Yours, and to use Your power according to Your will. Look, we are unhappy, because we have divided what is indivisible with You. We separated power from holiness, and separated power from love, and separated power from faith, and finally (and this is the first reason for our fall) we separated power from humility. Father, we pray to You, unite all that your children have divided through foolishness.
We pray to You, exalt and protect the honor of Your power, which has been abandoned and dishonored. Forgive us, for although we are like this, we are Your children.
and glory forever.
Your glory is eternal, like You, our King, our Father. It exists in You and does not depend on us. This glory is not from words, like the glory of mortals, but from a true, imperishable essence, such as You. Yes, she is inseparable from You, just as light is inseparable from the hot sun. Who has seen the center and halo of Your glory? Who has become famous without touching Your glory?
Your brilliant glory surrounds us on all sides and looks at us silently, smiling slightly and slightly surprised at our human worries and grumblings. When we fall silent, someone secretly whispers to us: you are the children of the glorious Father.
Oh, how sweet is this secret whisper!
What do we desire more than to be children of Your glory? Isn't that enough? Without a doubt, this is enough for a righteous life. However, people want to be the fathers of fame. And this is the beginning and apogee of their misfortunes. They are not content to be children and participants in Your glory, but they want to be fathers and bearers of Your glory. And yet You alone are the only bearer of Your glory. There are many who abuse Your glory, and many who have fallen into self-deception. There is nothing more dangerous in the hands of mortals than fame.
You show Your glory, and people argue about theirs. Your glory is a fact, but human glory is only a word.
Your glory eternally smiles and comforts, but human glory, separated from You, frightens and kills.
Your glory nourishes the unfortunate and guides the meek, but human glory is separated from You. She is Satan's most terrible weapon.
How ridiculous people are when they try to create their own glory, outside of You and apart from You. They are like some fool who hated the sun and tried to find a place where there was no sunlight. He built himself a shack without windows and, entering it, stood in the darkness and rejoiced that he had escaped from the source of light. Such is the fool and such is the inhabitant of darkness, he who tries to create his glory outside of You and apart from You, Immortal Source of Glory!
There is no human glory, just as there is no human strength. Yours is both the power and the glory, Our Father. If we do not receive them from You, we will not have them, and we will wither and be carried away by the will of the wind, like dry leaves falling from a tree.
We are pleased to be called Your children. There is no greater honor on earth or in heaven than this honor.
Take from us our kingdoms, our strength and our glory. Everything we once called ours lies in ruins. Take from us what belonged to You from the very beginning. Our whole history has been a foolish attempt to create our kingdom, our power and our glory. Quickly end our old story where we struggled to become masters in Your house, and begin a new story where we strive to become servants in the house that belongs to You. Truly, it is better and more glorious to be a servant in Your Kingdom than to be the most important king in our kingdom.
Therefore, make us, Father, servants of Your Kingdom, Your power and Your glory in all generations and forever and ever. Amen!
Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
People, Public DomainAccording to the Gospel, Jesus Christ gave it to his disciples in response to a request to teach them prayer. Quoted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke:
“Our Father who 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen". (Matt. 6:9-13)
“Our Father who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us our daily bread; and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every debtor to us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” (Luke 11:2-4)
Slavic translations (Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic)
| Archangel Gospel (1092) | Ostrog Bible (1581) | Elizabethan Bible (1751) | Elizabethan Bible (1751) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our people like you are on nbskh. May I be humbled by your name. may your kingdom come. May you please. ꙗko on nbsi and on earth. our daily bread (daily) give us a day. (give us every day). and leave us our debts (sins). But we also left him as our debtor. and do not lead us into attack. spare us the hostility. Because yours is the kingdom. and power and glory otsa and sna and stgo dha forever. amen. | Just like ours and yours on the nbse, may Thy name stand, may Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, ѧko in nbsi and in ꙁєmli. Give us our daily bread and leave us our long debts, Who and we will remain our debtor and don’t lead us into misfortune but also add on Ѡтъ лукаваго. | Who is ours and who art in heaven, may Your name shine, may your kingdom come, Thy will be done, Like in heaven and on earth, Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, We too will leave him as our debtor, and do not lead us into misfortune, but deliver us from the evil one. | Our Father, who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, may your kingdom come, Thy will be done as in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we also leave our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. |
Russian translations
| Synodal translation (1860) | Synodal translation (in post-reform spelling) | Good news (translation by RBO, 2001) |
|---|---|---|
Our Father who art in heaven! | Our Father who art in heaven! | Our Father in Heaven, |
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The Lord's Prayer is given in the Gospels in two versions, more extensive in and brief in the Gospel of Luke. The circumstances under which Jesus pronounces the text of the prayer are also different. In the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord's Prayer is included in the Sermon on the Mount, while in Luke, Jesus gives this prayer to the disciples in response to a direct request to “teach them to pray.”
A version of the Gospel of Matthew has become widespread throughout Christendom as the central Christian prayer, with the use of the Lord's Prayer as a prayer going back to the earliest Christian times. The text of Matthew is reproduced in the Didache, the oldest monument of Christian writing of a catechetical nature (late 1st - beginning of the 2nd century), and the Didache gives instructions to say prayer three times a day.
Biblical scholars agree that the original version of the prayer in the Gospel of Luke was significantly shorter; subsequent copyists supplemented the text at the expense of the Gospel of Matthew, as a result of which the differences were gradually erased. Mainly, these changes in the text of Luke occurred in the period after the Edict of Milan, when church books were massively rewritten due to the destruction of a significant part of Christian literature during the persecution of Diocletian. The medieval Textus Receptus contains almost identical text in the two Gospels.
One of the important differences in the texts of Matthew and Luke is the doxology that concludes the text of Matthew - “For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen,” which is missing from Luke. Most of the best and oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of Matthew do not contain this phrase, and biblical scholars do not consider it part of the original text of Matthew, but the addition of doxology was made very early, which proves the presence of a similar phrase (without mentioning the kingdom) in the Didache. This doxology has been used since early Christian times in the liturgy and has Old Testament roots (cf. 1 Chron. 29:11-13).
Differences in the texts of the Lord's Prayer sometimes arose due to the desire of translators to emphasize different aspects of polysemantic concepts. So in the Vulgate the Greek ἐπιούσιος (Ts.-Slav. and Russian “daily”) in the Gospel of Luke is translated into Latin as “cotidianum” (everyday), and in the Gospel of Matthew “supersubstantialem” (super-essential), which directly indicates on Jesus as the Bread of Life.
Theological interpretation of prayer
Many theologians have turned to the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. There are known interpretations of John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ephraim the Syrian, Maximus the Confessor, John Cassian and others. General works were also written based on the interpretations of ancient theologians (for example, the work of Ignatius (Brianchaninov)).
Orthodox theologians
The Long Orthodox Catechism writes, “The Lord’s Prayer is the prayer that our Lord Jesus Christ taught to the apostles and which they passed on to all believers.” He distinguishes in it: invocation, seven petitions and doxology.
- Invocation - “Our Father who art in heaven!”
Faith in Jesus Christ and the grace of man’s rebirth through the sacrifice of the cross gives Christians the ability to call God Father. Cyril of Jerusalem writes:
“Only God himself can allow people to call God Father. He granted this right to people, making them sons of God. And, despite the fact that they withdrew from Him and were in extreme anger against Him, He granted oblivion of insults and the sacrament of grace.”
- Petitions
The indication “he who is in heaven” is necessary in order to, starting to pray, “leave everything earthly and corruptible and lift up the mind and heart to the Heavenly, Eternal and Divine.” It also indicates the location of God.
According to Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov), “The petitions that make up the Lord’s Prayer are petitions for spiritual gifts acquired for humanity through redemption. There is no word in prayer about the carnal, temporary needs of a person.”
- “hallowed be thy name” John Chrysostom writes that these words mean that believers should first of all ask for “the glory of the Heavenly Father.” The Orthodox Catechism indicates: “The Name of God is holy and, without a doubt, holy in itself,” and at the same time can “still be holy in people, that is, His eternal holiness can appear in them.” Maximus the Confessor points out: “We sanctify the name of our heavenly Father by grace when we mortify the lust attached to matter and cleanse ourselves from corrupting passions.”
- “Thy Kingdom come” The Orthodox Catechism notes that the Kingdom of God “comes hidden and inward. The Kingdom of God will not come with observance (in a noticeable manner).” Regarding the impact of the feeling of the Kingdom of God on a person, Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov) writes: “He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself becomes alien to a world hostile to God. He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself can desire, out of true love for his neighbors, that the Kingdom of God will open in all of them.”
- “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” With this, the believer expresses that he asks God so that everything that happens in his life happens not according to his own desire, but as it pleases God.
- “Give us this day our daily bread” In the Orthodox Catechism, “daily bread” is “the bread necessary in order to exist or live,” but “the soul’s daily bread” is “the word of God and the Body and Blood Christ's." In Maximus the Confessor, the word “today” (this day) is interpreted as the present age, that is, the earthly life of a person.
- “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Debts in this petition refer to human sins. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) explains the need to forgive others their “debts” by saying that “Forgiving our neighbors of their sins before us, their debts, is our own need: without doing this, we will never acquire a mood capable of accepting redemption.”
- “Do not lead us into temptation” In this petition, believers ask God how to prevent them from being tempted, and if, according to the will of God, they should be tested and purified through temptation, then God would not completely give them over to temptation and not allow them to fall.
- “Deliver us from evil” In this petition, the believer asks God to deliver him from all evil and especially “from the evil of sin and from the evil suggestions and slander of the spirit of evil - the devil.”
- Doxology - “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
The doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer is contained so that the believer, after all the petitions contained in it, gives God due reverence.
How to pray in front of an icon that symbolically depicts prayer? You can address the Father, but can you portray Him? Is it appropriate for an icon painter to depict a globe with an equator and meridians? Is the missionary icon for the illiterate so complex that it itself needs to be explained? The icon “Our Father” raises many questions.
Icon “Our Father” from the circle of Gury Nikitin, 17th century.
“An instructive icon,” this is what art critic Nikodim Kondakov called complex icon compositions created on the basis of the texts of the Holy Scriptures, prayers and chants. These icons, real theological treatises in color, began to spread in Muscovite Rus' in the 16th-17th centuries. These include icons that convey the words of the Lord’s Prayer “Our Father” and confessions of faith.
Complex allegorical images really attract attention - there is something mysterious and unusual about them. Celestial spheres, mandorlas, inscriptions on charters, the sun and moon with human faces, the worshiping faces of saints and angels…. I want to look at the images, trying to unravel their details. In theory, they were supposed to clearly explain to illiterate people “how you believe” and protect them from heresies, and to those who were well-read, show the teachings of the holy fathers more vividly and catchily, revive the quotes, explaining them in symbolic images. Those. the icons were, in modern parlance, “missionary”.
Does such an icon really teach and enlighten? Or does it entertain the mind and turn into some kind of comic book? There is, after all, a difference between how the icons of St. Andrey Rublev and Daniil Cherny and thus unraveling the symbols.
In Rus', all this has been debated since the time of the dissemination of “instructive icons.” In 1553, a famous conversation took place between Tue. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and the head of the embassy order, Ivan Viskovaty. The clerk insisted that “instructive icons” are a figment of the artist’s imagination, and therefore should not be painted. He gives an example of the image of God the Father, whom no one has seen in the flesh, on the “Creed” icon, as well as the Four-Part Icon, painted after the fire of 1547 for the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. This icon combines the images “God rests on the seventh day”, “The only begotten Son and Word of God”, “Come, let us worship the Tripostal Divinity” and “In the carnal grave”.
Metropolitan Macarius, an icon painter and supporter of instructive icons, explained that on icons God the Father is written not “in essence,” but “according to prophecies,” and symbolic icons are not an innovation, but are based on old models. A year later, Ivan Viskovaty’s views were examined by the Council, which excommunicated him from the Church. Soon the excommunication was replaced by three years of repentance and excommunication. For the first year, the “Minister of Foreign Affairs” also had to stand at the gates of the church and ask for forgiveness from everyone who walked.
The Great Moscow Council (1666-1667) made the opposite decision - about the impossibility of depicting God the Father and permission to depict the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove only on icons of the Baptism of the Lord. Nevertheless
Why was the icon “Our Father” written?
The earliest Russian icon illustrating the Lord's Prayer was painted in 1668 for the Moscow Church of St. Gregory of Neoceseria in Derbitsy. Today the icon is located in St. Petersburg, in the Russian Museum.
The appearance of this particular composition among the icons of the temple was filled with deep meaning. St. Gregory the Wonderworker (III century), was the author of the confession of faith, which formed the basis of the Symbol, which was adopted in 325 by the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council and which is sung daily by all the people at the Liturgy. Although St. Gregory can be called the “author” conditionally. As his life tells us, the correct teaching about the Holy Trinity was taught to him in a vision by the Mother of God and the Apostle John the Theologian.
Therefore, the “Symbol of Faith” icon was installed in the local row of the iconostasis. Since there is an icon illustrating “I Believe,” then, of course, it should also be paired with an icon explaining the Lord’s Prayer. And so it was. The icon “Our Father” was located just opposite the “Creed” - behind the choir.
The temple was patronized by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich: his confessor, Archpriest Andrei Savvinov, served here, and here the sovereign married his second wife Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina, the future mother of Peter I. Therefore, it is not surprising that the best royal isographers worked on the icons for the church that had just been rebuilt in stone.
The pre-revolutionary icon expert Alexander Uspensky speaks of “I Believe” and “Our Father” as masterpieces of ancient Russian painting. And truly multi-figure compositions amaze with the complexity of their construction and richness of details. At the same time, it is already clearly felt in the icons that the tradition is in decline. Broken poses, hands folded on the chest in prayer, faces raised to the sky - tension and affect are felt in everything. Something that is characteristic not of icon painting, but of Western Baroque art.
In the monograph about the master Guria Nikitin, who participated in the creation of icons for the Church of St. Gregory of Neocaesarea, art critic Vera Bryusova notes that in the icons themselves “I Believe” and “Our Father” one can see a significant difference in the writing style of the authors. The difference between continuing tradition and new trends. So she compares the mobility and restlessness of those praying in the scene “But deliver us from the evil one,” attributed to Sergei Rozhkov, with the calmness and prayerful mood of the Mother of God and the apostles in the Nikitin composition “And He Ascended into Heaven” of the “Creed” icon.
Is it possible to portray the Father?
At the top of the icon there is an image of the New Testament Trinity, the so-called. Co-throne - God the Father in the form of the Old Denmi, the Son - Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove hovering over the empire. The Trinitarian Deity is worshiped by angels. This is how the initial words of the prayer are illustrated - the invocation of “Our Father”. What is characteristic is that God the Father is depicted only in a light outline, and the Son - in full. Bryusova notes that it is unlikely that the images of the royal temple could have been created without the knowledge of Patriarch Joasaph, who only a year earlier had adopted a council decision on the impossibility of depicting God the Father. 
Icon "Our Father", 1813. Pavlovo-on-Oka (Vasily Rassadin?)
Seven Petitions and One Doxology
Below the image of the New Testament Trinity there are eight compositions in pairs - the so-called. tybl. Each tiblo illustrates one of the petitions of the Lord's Prayer. The last composition illustrates the words that only the priest pronounces - “For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
“Hallowed be unto them” and “Thy kingdom come.” Each of the compositions is divided into two parts: the church and the world. The world bows to the king of the earth, the king standing on a pedestal with a scepter, and Christians bow to the King of Heaven. The “Thy kingdom come” scene has a somewhat apocalyptic tone. Western engravings of the time conveyed the worship of the Antichrist in a similar way. The imminent coming of the Kingdom of God takes on the meaning of the imminent second coming of Christ.
"Thy will be done." Christ took the Cross and goes to free suffering. People with crosses follow him. Some are exhausted under the weight of the burden, others fall.
“Give me this day our daily bread.” The Lord teaches Bread to the apostles that “And forgive us our debts.” Christians pray for the forgiveness of their sins, and next to them are scenes of For Thine is the Kingdom...
“And lead us not into temptation.” Christians pray outside the house - as if outside the world, but in the house there is a feast, people get drunk with wine, not seeing demons behind their backs.
“But deliver us from evil.” Demons are crafty, and before temptation they present sin as sweet and God as merciful, and after committing a sin as grave, and God as an inexorable Judge. This is conveyed figuratively in the icon: the demon presses a desperate, crying sinner with his knee.
“For Thine is the kingdom.” The New Testament Trinity is worshiped by angels, apostles and saints. The composition has interesting details. The sphere surrounding the Divinity stands before the Mother of God and St. John the Baptist, this means that we have before us an unusual version of deisis. In the center there is a sphere - an image of the world as the “kingdom of God”. By the way, the same Great Moscow Cathedral condemned the image of Christ with an orb in his hand instead of the Gospel, seeing Latin influence in them. However, the power continued to be drawn both as an attribute of the greatness of Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, and the sphere as a symbol of the visible world.
The most interesting example of the composition “For Yours is the Kingdom” can be seen in the painting of the vault of the western porch of the gallery of the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl (early 18th century). At the top the New Testament Trinity is also depicted on cherubs, and on the sides are the faces of saints on clouds. In the center is the Earth in the form of a globe, with an equator and meridians.
In the painting of the gallery of the Elias Church there are also other compositions based on the words of the Lord’s Prayer, located next to scenes from the Apocalypse, once again.
Later icons of the Lord's Prayer
Usually small icons of the “Our Father” from the 18th-19th centuries. are a set of nine uniform compositions. They are arranged so that they are viewed one after another - from left to right, from top to bottom. In three rows of three. 
Icon "Our Father" Chita Regional Art Museum
Not always every request of the Lord’s Prayer on an icon corresponds to a special composition. The space of the “Our Father” icon from the Chita Museum is calculated in an interesting way. It is small - 30x35 cm, so the icon painter reduced the number of figures and simplified the overall composition.
As a result, the image became clear, concise and full of deep theological meaning. It turned into an answer to the main Christian question: “How to be saved?” Above - on the clouds, “in heaven” the angels stand before God the Father, who blesses the world.
Below on the left is the Nativity of Christ. “Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth.” God willingly became Man in order to unite the earthly with the heavenly and to overcome the consequences of original sin, that temptation to “be like gods” that Adam and Eve could not bear. And indeed - “and do not lead us into temptation” is illustrated by the ancestors at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan is cast into the abyss of hell - this is how the words “but deliver us from the evil one” are conveyed.
In the center of the icon, Christ, the incarnate Son and Word, “today” gives the apostles Bread, His Body. Below are people who, before approaching the altar, repay debts and forgive offenses. “And forgive us our debts...” On this icon, the theme of the Liturgy and apostolate takes on special urgency, and here’s why. Most likely it is Old Believers, and for Old Believers the issue of preserving the Liturgy and priestly reception has always been especially acute and painful.
One of the main prayers of an Orthodox person is the Lord's Prayer. It is contained in all prayer books and canons. Its text is unique: it contains thanksgiving to Christ, intercession before Him, petition and repentance.
Icon of Jesus Christ
It is with this prayer, filled with deep meaning, that we turn to the Almighty directly without the participation of saints and heavenly angels.
Reading rules
- The Lord's Prayer is included in the obligatory prayers of the morning and evening rules, and its reading is also recommended before meals, before starting any business.
- It protects from demonic attacks, strengthens the spirit, and delivers from sinful thoughts.
- If a slip of the tongue occurs during prayer, you need to apply the Sign of the Cross on yourself, say “Lord, have mercy,” and begin reading again.
- You should not treat reading a prayer as a routine job, say it mechanically. The request and praise of the Creator must be expressed sincerely.
About Orthodox prayer:
Important! The text in Russian is in no way inferior to the Church Slavonic version of the prayer. The Lord appreciates the spiritual impulse and attitude of the prayer book.Orthodox prayer "Our Father"
Our Father who 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors; And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
The main idea of the Lord's Prayer - from Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov)
The Lord's Prayer, Our Father, is integral prayer and unity, because life in the Church requires from a person complete concentration of his thoughts and feelings, spiritual aspiration. God is Freedom, Simplicity and Unity.
God is everything for a person and he must give absolutely everything to Him. Rejection from the Creator is detrimental to faith. Christ could not teach people to pray any other way. God is the only good, he is “existent”, everything is to Him and from Him.
God is the One Giver: Thy Kingdom, Thy Will, leave, give, deliver... Here everything distracts a person from earthly life, from attachment to earthly things, from worries and draws him to the One from Whom everything is. And petitions only indicate the statement that little space is given to earthly things. And this is correct, because renunciation of the worldly is a measure of love for God, the other side of Orthodox Christianity. God Himself came down from heaven to call us from earth to heaven.
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