Pater Noster
Also known as: Our Father, Lord's Prayer
Part of the Communion Rite, directly after the Eucharistic Prayers and before The Peace.
During the Our Father, the torch bearers and thurifer rise and return the torches and thurible to the vestry. They quickly return to their places at the altar step and remain standing.
All other servers should remain standing at the foot of the altar.
Servers should bow at: "Mary", "God", and for the doxology ("For thine is the kingdom...)
Includes a bidding by the celebrant, the Our Father, Embolism, and Doxology.
The Priest, with hands joined, sings or says:
As our Savior Christ hath commanded and taught us, we are bold to say,
And here he extends his hands and begins the Lord's Prayer, as the People continue with him:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
The Priest alone continues:
Deliver us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all evils, past, present, and to come: and at the intercession of the blessed and glorious ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and with Andrew, and all the Saints, favourably grant peace in our days, that by the help of thine availing mercy we may both be free from sin and safe from all distress.
The Priest joins his hands. The People respond:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
DWM (pg. 649)