1. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name! O Lord, we believe in you because everything reveals your power and goodness. The harmony of the universe bears witness to a wisdom, prudence and providence that surpasses all human abilities. The name of one supremely great and wise being is
written on all the works of creation from the blade of grass and the smallest insect to the heavenly bodies that travel through space. Everywhere, we see the proof of a paternal solicitude, and that is why those who do not recognize you in your works are blind; those who do not glorify you are proud and those who do not render thanks to you are ungrateful. II. Thy kingdom come! Lord, you have given to men and women laws filled with wisdom that would make them happy if they would only observe them. With these laws, they would make peace and justice reign; they would help one another rather than harm one another as they do. The strong would uphold the weak rather than crush them. They would avoid the ills that engender abuses and excesses of all kinds. All the miseries of this world result from the violation of
your laws, for there is not one single infraction that does not entail unavoidable consequences. You have given animals the instinct that marks the limit of their needs and they mechanically conform to it; to humans, however, besides instinct you gave them intelligence and reason.

III. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven! If obedience is children’s duty toward their parents, of subordinates toward their superiors, how much greater it is the duty of creatures toward their Creator. Doing your will, O Lord, is to obey your laws and to be obedient without complaining against your divine decrees. People will become obedient when they understand that you are the fount of all wisdom and that without you they can do nothing. Then, they shall do your will on earth as the elect do in heaven.

IV. Give us this day our daily bread. Give us nourishment for maintaining the strength of our body; give us also spiritual nourishment for the development of our spirit. The animal finds its pasture, but humans depend on their own activity and the resources of their intelligence because you have created them free.
You said to them: “You shall earn your nourishment from the earth with the sweat of your brow”; thus, you made labor an obligation so that they may exert their intelligence in seeking the means of providing for their needs and well-being, some through physical labor and others through intellectual labor. Without labor they would remain at a standstill and could not aspire to the bliss of the high order spirits. You aid people of goodwill who trust in you for their necessities, but not those who take pleasure in idleness and who would like to receive everything without any effort, nor those who seek the superfluous. How many there are who succumb through their own fault, their negligence, their lack of foresight or their ambition, and for not wanting to be content with what you have given them! They are the artisans of their own misfortune and they have no right to complain, because they are being punished for their sins. However,
you do not forsake even these, because you are infinitely merciful. Give us prudence, foresight and moderation also so that we may not lose the fruit of our labor. Therefore, O Lord, give us our daily bread, that is, the means to acquire through labor the things we need for life, for no one has the right to request what is superfluous. If labor is impossible for us, we will entrust ourselves to your divine providence.
If it is your will to test us by means of the most crushing privations in spite of our efforts, we will accept them as a just expiation for the wrongs we have committed in this life or in a previous one, because you are just. We know that there are no undeserving punishments and that you never punish without cause.
Dear God, keep us from being envious toward those who have what we do not or toward those who have what is superfluous while we lack what is necessary. Forgive them if they forget the law of charity
and love for one’s neighbor that you taught. Moreover, keep from our spirit the thought of denying your
justice when we see the prosperity of the wicked and the misfortune that sometimes crushes good persons. Thanks to the new enlightenment that it has pleased you to give us, we now know that your justice is always fulfilled and never fails anyone; that the material prosperity of the wicked is as fleeting as their corporeal existence and that they will suffer terrible reversals, whereas the joy reserved for those who suffer with resignation will be everlasting.

V. Forgive our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Forgive our offenses, as we forgive those who offend us.
Each one of our infractions of your laws, O Lord, is an offense against you, a debt contracted that we will have to pay sooner or later. For these we beg the forgiveness of your infinite mercy, and we promise to make every effort not to contract new debts. You have made charity an express law for everyone; but
charity does not consist only in helping our fellow beings in their need. It also consists in forgetting and forgiving their offenses. By what right would we demand your indulgence if we ourselves do not show it toward those against whom we have a complaint? Give us, dear God, the strength to stifle all resentment,
all hatred and all grudges in our soul. Ensure that death does not surprise us while we hold a desire for revenge in our heart. If it pleases you to take us this very day from this world, ensure that we may
present ourselves to you purified of all animosity, following Christ’s example, whose last words were for his executioners. The persecutions that the wicked make us bear are part of our earthly trials; we must accept them without complaining, just like all other trials, and not speak ill of those who out of malice in
fact open to us the way of eternal joy, for you spoke through Jesus lips, O Lord, for having taught us that our fate is not irrevocably set after death; that we shall find in later existences the means to redeem and repair our past wrongs, and to complete in a new life what we have not been able to do in this one for our advancement. Thus may all the apparent anomalies of life be finally explained. The light is shed upon our past and future as a radiant sign of your supreme justice and boundless goodness.

VI. Do not let us fall into temptation, but deliver us from all evil O Lord, give us the strength to resist the suggestions of evil spirits, who tempt us away from the path of goodness by inspiring us with evil houghts. But we ourselves are imperfect spirits, having incarnated on this earth to expiate our wrongs and to make ourselves better beings. The first cause of evil lies within us and evil spirits merely take advantage of our vile tendencies, in which they support us in order to tempt us. Each imperfection is an open door to their influence, whereas they are powerless and give up any attempt against perfect beings. Everything we could do to keep them away is useless if we do not oppose them with a will unshakeable in the practice of the good and with complete renunciation of evil. Thus, it is toward ourselves that we must direct our efforts, and then evil spirits will naturally stay away, because evil is what attracts them, while goodness repels them. Lord, uphold us in our weakness; through the voice of our guardian angels and the good spirits inspire us with the will to correct our imperfections in order to prevent impure spirits from accessing our soul. Evil is not your work, O Lord, because the source of all goodness cannot engender evil in any way; we ourselves create it by infringing upon your laws and by the ill use we make of the freedom you have granted us. When humans finally begin to observe your laws, evil will disappear from the earth, just as it has already disappeared from more advanced worlds. Evil is not a fatalistic necessity for anyone, and it seems irresistible only to those who complacently abandon themselves to
it. If we have the will to commit evil, we also have the will to do the good. Therefore, dear God, we ask for your assistance and that of good spirits to resist temptation.

VII. So be it!