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obtained what you asked for." This is what is meant by the
word "Amen."

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The Our Father {Continued)

EACH WORD of the Lord's Prayer is a tribute we pay to the perfections of God. We honor His
fertility by the name of Father:
FATHER,
Thou
Who throughout eternity
Dost beget a Son
Who is God like Thee
Eternal, consubstantial with Thee
WHO Is the very same essence
As Thee;
And is of like power And goodness 
And wisdom
As Thou art 
Father and Son
Who from Your mutual love
Produce the Holy Spirit
Who is God like unto You
Three Persons
But one GOD.
Our Father this means that He is the Father of mankind because He has created us and continues to
sustain us, and because He has redeemed us. He is also the merciful Father of sinners the
Father Who is the friend of the just and the glorious Father of the blessed in heaven.
When we say Who art, by these words we pay tribute to the
infinity and immensity and fullness of God's essence. God is rightly called "He Who is"1; that is
to say, He exists of necessity, essentially, and eternally, because He is the Being of
1Exodus 3:14.

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