11 Nov
The Lord’s Prayer
I would like to honour all of our veterans today with the prayer that Jesus Himself gave us. The website of St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church in Broomall, Pennsylvania has a wonderful page where you can find The Lord’s Prayer (in both written and spoken formats) in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Ethiopian, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Spanish and Thai.
And here are the Irish Mystics, with “Pater Noster” in English, Latin and Gaelic:
Direct to YouTube for this video is HERE.
A prayer for the vets..
For them, and for you,
Afrikaans: Mag God jou seen
November 11th, 2007 at 4:14 pmAkan (Ghana): Nyame nyhira wo
Brazilian Portuguese: Deus te abencoe!
Dutch: God’s Zegen!
Finnish: Jumalan siunausta!
French: Que le Seigneur vous benisse!
German: Gott segne Euch!
Irish: Beannacht Dei ort
Italian: Dio vi benedica!
Kiswahili: Mungu akubariki
Lingala (from Dem. Rep. of Congo, formerly Zaire): Nzambe apambola yo!
Malay (from Malaysia): Puji Tuhan! (Praise the Lord!)
Maltese: Alla jberikhom
Mandarin Chinese: Yuan Shen zhu fu nin!
Norwegian: Gud velsigne deg!
Polish: Niech Pan Ci Blogoslawi
Romanian: Dumnezeu sa te binecuvanteze!
Spanish: Dios te bendiga!
Swahili (East Africa): Mungu acubariki sana!
Swedish: Gud vare med dig!
About 2 days ago I saved a draft - to post later - it’s Simone Weil writing about the Lord’s Prayer….then this morning I visited Sacred Space the Jesuit prayer site and the thought and prayer reflection for the incoming week is centred on the Lord’s Prayer …and then I come here and to this lovely post…and Justme’s lovely translations…..not just coincidence - that’s what you’d say, isn’t it….I don’t need to ask anymore.
November 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pmAnn, you jewel, don’t give JustMe credit for anything but breathing in and out and tapping on keys, but indeed, nothing is coincidence. (And coincidentally, Father mentioned the Father in the Our Father, today.)
And for what it’s worth, as Father also reminded us this morn.. all our loved ones are present with the Risen Christ in Mass. I’d never thought of them that way.. one can be near them in every Mass.. One more reason why the Our Father is so astounding. Not only does Jesus give us — through Him, with Him, and in Him — the Father to call Father, too, but all call Him Father. He is ourrrr father.
I can hardly get past those two words, just as I can hardly get past the first three of the Anima Christi. Imagine addressing the soul of Christ..
Whew.. Astounding.
November 11th, 2007 at 11:19 pmJustMe!!! Thank you very much! I guess just in case someone reads your comment who doesn’t speak any of those languages, we should say that it means, “May God bless you”.
Now, that is something I will have to print out tomorrow and place right near my computer.
Ann, I have not read Simone Weil (oh gosh, this is the second writer I’ve had to tell you in one evening that I haven’t read; I left a comment at your place re Patrick Kavanagh), so I will look forward to your post when you have put it up. Also, I popped over to Sacred Space since you mentioned it, because I haven’t been there in quite a while, and it was warm and soothing, as usual.
ColletinesFan, you say, “imagine addressing the soul of Christ”, which made me think of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity again, who said her favourite book was the soul of Christ. Reading the soul of Christ. Imagine the intimacy.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Oh, I like that. One can also hardly get past His, “How I have longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” When all looked back on that.. to know that He knew not only what He would do for love, but what it would take.. O Lord, who can imagine You ever enough.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:43 amBeautiful.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:10 pmBelieve it or not I have been to St. Luke Church in Broomall. My wife and I attended the annual Greek Festival over 20 years ago when we lived near Philadelphia. It was our first introduction to Greek pastries other than baklava and to loukoumathes, our favorite Greek sweet treat.
It is a small world.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:03 pmHello there, Joakim. Hope all is well with you and your son. Thanks for coming by to visit. Gud vare med dig!
Yes, it is a small world, Terry. When I looked on their website, there were directions to the church from various places, and I saw they mentioned the New Jersey turnpike, and so I thought of Penni. I just love baklava; my son and I made our own once, a couple of years ago, with phylo pastry sheets, and it was just as good as any we’d ever bought (and I say this without pride, because I am not a very good baker, but it wasn’t hard to do, just very time-consuming.) I’ve never heard of loukoumathes though.
Hey there, JustMe. Beannacht Dei ort!
November 13th, 2007 at 8:12 pmThat’s another wondrous thing about the ‘net ( and it makes this world even blessedly smaller) — recipes, and not just recipes, but step-by-step videos on how-to! I’d thought about making baklava last Christmas — read up on it, noted that we do have the ingredients in the store cases — and indeed, it seemed not beyond my actually doing it, even without a video. So, I laid down until that thought went away. (I did actually cook, once. One almost has to plan to incinerate 24 boxes of mac & cheese all at once for the soup kitchen - Lord knows how many wooden spoons were sacrificed, not one of which reached the bottom so as to stir what now weighed 8000 lbs. Not even when I duct-taped them together. Ah, well..I do not have this gift.)
Greek food is terrific, I’ve heard.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:33 amOh, Lord, you crack me up.
I agree with you entirely; best to take a nap when all those thoughts of productivity start intruding. Reminds me of myself in a way; I get such pleasure from watching the exercise videos while munching on crackers and jam.
Greek food. Yummy, yummy, yummy. And Lebanese too.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:36 amI feel badly that you led out with a prayer for vets, and I said nothing.. It doesn’t matter how antiwar I am, trust me, it is because I do value life and limb so much, that I also value the sacrifices of lives and limbs and eyes and ears.. oh God. May there be fewer and fewer casualties, not better battlefield medicine, and above all, may we be less quick to respond to anything with firepower and manpower.
I do thank all vets everywhere, invisible to us, most of them.
It’s not that I love my country; I don’t. Not right now, no.. how dare we bleed trillions out to the MidEast while our recuperating folks over at Walter Reed and elsewhere have to beg phone cards so as to call home! And much more.. much more. Abortion, human cloning, insurance spelling the difference between health or illness AND life or death; a criminally low minimum wage, the folks living in subhuman boxes.. I could one day love it, if I live that long, but there’s so much wrong, seriously wrong.
But either way, my hand goes over my heart when the flag passes, because of those men and women who fell believing they were doing what was right and honorable. I’ve never been in a foxhole far from home such as in ‘Nam or well before and well before, tho’ I wrote some who were, and buried some who were.., nor even been miliarily employed in the States, such as in Pearl Harbor, unless one counts civil service at a base, and no, that doesn’t count - that was probably the safest place to be!.. but I do know what it is to be a sitting duck. To do that for another’s good, for another’s protection.. is indeed honorable.
And I am thankful. God bless you, vets. I’m days late with that, but it was inside. It is always present on the inside.
November 15th, 2007 at 9:59 pmInside is the part God sees and knows, Justme, and that’s what matters most in the end.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:56 amYes. I don’t imagine we have many, if any, pro-war readers at the Haven. But we honour our men and women who have fallen over the decades, and who continue to fall. And we pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven.”
November 16th, 2007 at 10:19 am