Our Father

The Lord's Prayer

• Pater Noster
• s0-named as it was "taught and given to us by the Lord Jesus" (CCC 2765)

Also called the Our Father prayer

• oratio Dominica

"Summary of the Whole Gospel"

• Tertullian wrote that The Lord's Prayer ""is truly the summary of the whole gospel" (per CCC 2761)
• Saint Augustine wrote that,

Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. (per [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/664/ CCC 2762])

• Jesus gave us the prayer to be spoken thoughtfully and purposefully

“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.

But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. 

And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. 

Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/6:5 Mt 6:5-8])

Doxology

also called the "minor doxology"

• doxology = "words of praise"
• the Didache (a collection of early Church teachings, c. AD 50-120) taught the Lord's Prayer ending with the minor doxology:

"for Thine is the power and the glory for ever" ([https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html Didache, Ch. 8])

See

• Saint Augustine of Hippo's writing on the Lord's Prayer
  • https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/media/articles/ourfatheronthelordsprayer/