第二部分：主祷文——「我们在天上的父！」
Section Two: The Lord's Prayer – "Our Father!"
2759耶稣「在一个地方祷告；祷告完了，有个门徒对他说：主啊，求你教导我们祷告，像约翰教导他的门徒。」路 11:1。主回应这请求，把基督徒的基本祈祷托付给他的门徒和他的教会。圣路加给出一段较简短的文本，共五个祈求，参路 11:2-4。而圣马太给出更完整的版本，共七个祈求。参太 6:9-13。教会的礼仪圣传保留了圣马太的文本：
2759Jesus “was praying at a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’”Lk 11:1. In response to this request the Lord entrusts to his disciples and to his Church the fundamental Christian prayer. St. Luke presents a brief text of five petitions,Cf. Lk 11:2-4. while St. Matthew gives a more developed version of seven petitions.Cf. Mt 6:9-13. The liturgical tradition of the Church has retained St. Matthew’s text:
我们在天上的父：
愿人都尊你的名为圣。
愿你的国降临。
愿你的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。
我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们。
免我们的债，
如同我们免了人的债。
不叫我们遇见试探；
救我们脱离凶恶。
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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
2760很早以前，礼仪用法就以一段光荣颂来结束主祷文。在Didache中我们看到：「因为国度、权柄、荣耀，全是你的，直到永远。」Didache 8，2：SCh 248，174。Apostolic Constitutions在开头加上「国度」，这公式直到今天仍在普世合一祈祷中沿用。Apostolic Constitutions 7，24，1：PG 1，1016。拜占庭传统在「荣耀」之后加上「父、子、圣灵」。《罗马弥撒经书》则在「等候所盼望的福」以及我们的主耶稣基督第二次来临的明确视角中，发展了最后一个祈求。多 2:13；参《罗马弥撒经书》22，主祷文后的补充经文。随后会众欢呼，或重复Apostolic Constitutions中的光荣颂。
2760Very early on, liturgical usage concluded the Lord’s Prayer with a doxology. In the Didache, we find, “For yours are the power and the glory for ever.”Didache 8,2: SCh 248,174. The Apostolic Constitutions add to the beginning: “the kingdom,” and this is the formula retained to our day in ecumenical prayer.Apostolic Constitutions 7,24,1: PG 1,1016. The Byzantine tradition adds after “the glory” the words “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” The Roman Missal develops the last petition in the explicit perspective of “awaiting our blessed hope” and of the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.Titus 2:13; cf. Roman Missal 22, Embolism after the Lord’s Prayer. Then comes the assembly’s acclamation or the repetition of the doxology from the Apostolic Constitutions.