WHY IS IT CALLED THE “LORD’S PRAYER”?
The Our Father is
called the “Oratio Dominica”, that is, the Lord’s Prayer because it was taught
to us by the Lord Jesus himself. The prayer that comes to us from Jesus is
truly unique: it is “of the Lord.” On the one hand, in the words of this prayer
the only Son gives us the words the Father gave him: he is the master of our
prayer. On the other, as Word incarnate, he knows in his human heart the needs
of his human brothers and sisters and reveals them to us: he is the model of our
prayer. It is the prayer fulfilled by the prayer of Christ.