VIDEO: Students Recite “Lord’s Prayer” During Graduation, Even Though it Had Been Banned!

The song “Lord’s Prayer” had been banned by school officials because the organization said the song promoted religion and violated the U.S. Constitution. However, these young people upheld school tradition by reciting the song and it was beyond beautiful! Watch the ceremony and the heartwarming moment for yourself!

Also, here is some information on “Lord’s Prayer”, provided by Wikipedia.

The Lord’s Prayer (also called the Our Father or Pater Noster among other names) is a venerated Christian prayer that, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray.

Two versions of this prayer are recorded: a longer form in the Gospel of Matthew as part of the Sermon on the Mount, and a shorter form in the Gospel of Luke as a response by Jesus to a request by “one of his disciples” to teach them “to pray as John taught his disciples.” The context of the prayer in Matthew is a discourse deploring people who pray ostentatiously.

The original text of the prayer (in Greek) uniquely contains the word epiousios, which does not appear in any other classical or Koine Greek literature, and is also the only adjective in the prayer. While controversial, the most common English language translation of this word is “daily”. The prayer concludes with “deliver us from evil” in Matthew, and with “lead us not into temptation” in Luke. The first three of the seven petitions in Matthew address God; the other four are related to human needs and concerns. Some Christians, particularly Protestants, conclude the prayer with a doxology, a later addendum appearing in some manuscripts of Matthew.

Matthew 6:9–13

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.”

Luke 11:2–4

“Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.”

Underscoring the scope and foundational importance of the Lord’s Prayer, initial words on the topic from the Catechism of the Catholic Church teach that it “is truly the summary of the whole gospel.” The prayer is used by most Christian churches in their worship; with exceptions, the liturgical form is the Matthean. Although theological differences and various modes of worship divide Christians, according to Fuller Seminary professor Clayton Schmit, “there is a sense of solidarity in knowing that Christians around the globe are praying together … and these words always unite us.”

In biblical criticism, the prayer’s absence in the Gospel of Mark together with its occurrence in Matthew and Luke has caused scholars who accept the two-source hypothesis (against other document hypotheses) to conclude that it is probably a logion original to Q.

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