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The Secret of the Rosary

When we say bread we ask for that which is just necessary to live; and, of course, this does nat
include luxuries.
We ask for this bread today ihis day which means that we are concerned only for the present,
leaving the morrow in the hands of Providence.
And when we ask for our daily bread we recognize that we need God's help every day and that we are
entirely dependent upon Him for His help and protection.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us:

Every sin, say Saint Augustine and Tertullian, is a debt which we contract towards Almighty God and
His justice demands payment down to the very last farthing. Unfortunately we all have these sad
debts.
No matter how many they may be we should go to God in all confidence and with true sorrow for our
sins, saying "Our Father Who art in Heaven, forgive us our sins of thought and those of speech,
forgive us our sins of commission and omission which make us infinitely guilty in the eyes of Thy
Divine Justice.
''We dare to ask this because Thou art our loving and merciful Father and because we have
forgotten those who have offended us, out of obedience to Thee and out of charity. "Do not permit
us, in spite of our infidelity to Thy graces,
to give in to the temptations of the world, the devil and the flesh."

But deliver us from evil:

The evil of sin and also of temporal punishment and everlasting punishment which we know that we
have rightly deserved.

Amen (So be it)

 This word at the end of Our Father is very consoling and Saint Jerome says that it is a sort of
seal of approbation that Almighty God puts at the end of our petitions to assure us that He
will grant requests very much as though He Himself were answering:
Amen! May it be as you have asked, for verily you have

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