The lords prayer.
The Master's Question
The master asks the scholar if he knows a set form of prayer.
Master. Do you have any set and appointed way of praying?
Christ's Own Prayer
The scholar identifies the Lord's Prayer as taught by Christ and recites it in full.
Scholar. Yes indeed: exactly the same one that our Lord taught his disciples, and through them all other Christians. When he was once asked to teach them a form of prayer, he taught them this. When you pray, he said, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
The Doxology and Amen
The prayer concludes with the doxology and a final Amen.
For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.✦ Amen.
Read the original English
Master. Hast thou any certayne and appoynted maner of prayeng?
Scho. Yea forsoth: euen the very same, that oure Lorde taught his disciples, and in them all other Christians. Who, beynge on a tyme required to teache them some sort of praier, taughte them this. Whē ye pray, quod he, say: Our father whych art in heauen, hallowed be thy name. Thi kingdom come. Thy will be done in earthe as it is in heauen. Gyue vs thys day our dayly breade, and forgyue vs our trespasses as we forgyue thē that trespasse agaynste vs. And lead vs not into temptaciō: But delyuer vs from euell.
For thyne is the kyngdom power & glory for euer. Amē
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.6.13 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
John Ponet's Short Catechisme (1553) companion
Rule yourself daily, not just on retreat
Chosen Portion turns the mirror into a daily practice — a short reading and examining question each morning before you lead anyone.
Chosen Portion makes the mirror daily: the ruler-formation questions this collection preserves become a two-minute morning examination in the app.
- A daily formation reading drawn from centuries of counsel to those in authority
- One pointed examination question a day — two minutes, before the meetings start
- Track your practice over weeks and watch the examined life become a habit