This salutation (The Lord’s Prayer) is therefore not only the beginning but the very foundation of the prayer; it renders all the other petitions possible and fills them with meaning. In its deepest and original sense Christianity is the “religion of fatherhood”, which means that it is not founded on intellectual ideals of philosophical deductions, but on the experience of love which floods our whole life, on the experience of personal love.
- Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann “Our Father”
- Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann “Our Father”