Catechesis: Introduction to the Our Father

There is no nobler prayer to be found on earth than the Lord’s Prayer. We pray it daily.—LC III:23

They were unwilling to take anything from Him, but wished only to give Him something.—LC III:25

Therefore, God also requires that you weep and ask for such needs and wants, not because He does not know about them, but so that you may kindle your heart to stronger and greater desires and make wide and open your cloak to receive much.—LC III:27

Here is included in seven successive articles, or petitions, every need that never ceases to apply to us. Each is so great that it ought to drive us to keep praying the Lord’s Prayer all our lives.—LC III:34