Music: Manoling Francisco, SJ and Palan Reyes 
Arrangement: Palan Reyes 

"At the Savior's command, and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say" the Lord's Prayer. Our Lord taught us to recognize God as our Father, and so we come before Him, asking for our daily bread and begging forgiveness for our trespasses. This particular translation of the Our Father unites us with Christians everywhere, reminding us that despite our differences, we are part of the one Body of Christ. The Our Father is the perfect prayer, composed and taught to us by Our Lord. In the context of the Holy Mass, it is said in preparation for Holy Communion: We pray that the bread of life may nourish us and transform us into Christ himself.

The singing of the Lord's Prayer is one of the most ancient traditions of Christendom. It is a prayer of both the priest and of the congregation. It is not a special prayer of the celebrant. The presider introduces the prayer and concretizes the final petition of peace in an extended verbal insertion. No special roles are indicated for cantor and choir, although the choir might support the assembly's singing with harmony as long as they do not substitute the singing of the congregation. Thus, the praying of the Lord's Prayer in the Eucharist is communal. It is the prayer of the assembly, never exclusive to the choir or to a soloist.

Many of us have been using a less formal, vernacular translation of the Lord's Prayer in the Philippines, for many years. In their plenary meeting in July 2012, the CBCP has mandated the use of this ‘Catholic version' of the text, which we share with the rest of the English-speaking Catholic bishops' conferences in the world. This text of this Lord's Prayer restores a classic rendition of the Lord's Prayer, adapted from the 1162 Anglican Book of Common Prayer and published in the 1928 Prayer Book of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.