The Diocese
Posted: 02/11/2016
The Lord's Prayer, often referred to as "The Hayr Mer" (Our Father) in the Armenian tradition, is the prayer taught to us by Christ, our Lord, the Son of God. The prayer has been handed down to us by the Apostles. The Lord's Prayer teaches us about the relationship between God and man and about all the necessary ingredients which we ought to know about God.
The Lord's prayer calls on us to humbly surrender ourselves to God. Through this prayer we offer ourselves to God, in exalting God and confessing our sins but above all asking God's mercy upon us. Thus, when we live a life graced with prayer, we then obviously are living a God-pleasing life, despite the fact that we are weak in our human nature and inclined to fail and fall into temptations.
Children who recite the words of the Lord's prayer undoubtedly feel and live in the depths of their hearts the very presence of God and the fear of God inspires them with wisdom. For the adults, the same prayer calms the turbulence of our inner spiritual life and strengthens us in our faith. It guides us to live a Christ-like life. And each time we recite the Lord's prayer we lift up our spiritual life to a new level of faith and, come closer to God.
