Prayers of the Social Awakening

Excerpt from Prayers of the Social AwakeningThe Lord's Prayer is so familiar to us that few have stopped to understand it. The general tragedy of misunderstanding which has followed Jesus throughout the centuries has frustrated the purpose of his model prayer also. He gave it to st0p vain repetitions, and it has been turned into a contrivance for incessant repetition.The churches have employed it for their ecclesiastical ritual. Yet it is not ecclesias tical. There is no hint in it of the Church, the ministry, the doctrines of theology, or the sacraments though the Latin Vulgate has turned the petition for the daily bread into a prayer for the super-substantial bread of the sacrament.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.