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Twelfth Rose

Thy Kingdom come:

Do Thou reign in our souls By Thy grace
So that after death
We may be found meet
To reign with Thee
In Thy Kingdom
In perfect and unending bliss.
Oh Lord we firmly believe
In this happiness to come;
We hope for and we expect it,
Because God the Father Has promised it
In His great goodness;
It was purchased for us
By the merits of God the Son
And God the Holy Spirit
He Who is the Light
Has made it known to us.

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven:
 
As Tertullian says, this sentence does not in the least mean that we are afraid of people thwarting
God's designs because nothing whatsoever can happen without Divine Providence having foreseen it
and having made it fit into His plans before hand. No obstruction in the whole world can possibly
prevent the will of God from being carried out.
Rather, when we say Thy will be done, we ask God to make us humbly resigned to all that He has seen
fit to send us in this life. We also ask Him to help us to do, in all things and
at all times, His Holy will, made known to us by the commandments, promptly , lovingly and
faithfully as the saints and angels do it in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread:

Our Lord taught us to ask God for everything that we need whether in the spiritual or temporal
order. By asking for our daily bread we humbly admit our own poverty and insufficiency and pay
tribute to our God, knowing that all temporal goods
come from His Divine Providence.

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