The Catholic form of the Lord’s Prayer stops at “deliver us from evil,” with no closing praise. At Mass the priest adds a prayer, then everyone says, “For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours.” The Latin Bible never had it, the Roman Mass took it up in 1970, and the oldest Greek copies of Matthew lack it. The Lord’s Prayer and the Our Father are two names for the same prayer, and the Catechism uses both. Side…

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