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¶ 2765

The Traditional Expression "the Lord's Prayer" - oratio Dominica - means that the Prayer to our Father is taught and given to us by the Lord Jesus. the prayer that Comes to us from Jesus is truly Unique: it is "of the Lord." On the one hand, in the words of this prayer the only Son gives us the words the Father Gave him: 13 he is the master of our prayer. On the other, as Word incarnate, he knows in his human Heart the needs of his human brOthers and sisters and Reveals them to us: he is the model of our prayer.

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