Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

985.0. "The Lord's Prayer" by COVERT::COVERT (John R. Covert) Mon Oct 17 1994 01:00

This traditional music of the Lord's Prayer is unquestionably a part of
our oldest musical inheritance.  This "Ekphonesis", a common feature of
the early Greek liturgies, is almost identical with a Hebrew cantillation
of Zechariah 2:10, "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion ..."  Thus it
may very well be a musical tradition from the primitive Judeo-Christian
communities.  The apostles may have sung the Lord's Prayer to this tune.

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      Our Fa-ther, Who art in hea-ven,    Hal-low-ed be Thy Name.

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      Thy king-dom come.   Thy will be done,  on earth as it is in hea-ven.

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      Give us this day our dai-ly bread, And for-give us our tres-pass-es,

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      As we for-give those who tres-pass a-gainst us.   And lead us not in-to

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      temp-ta-tion, But de-liv-er us from e-vil.  For Thine is the king-dom,

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      and the pow-er, and the glo-ry;   For ev-er and ev-er.   A-men.