The Lords Prayer in Latin. This was the only language it was prayed in the western Christian churches for over 1,500 years up until the start of the Protestant Reformation when it began to be prayed in the languages that each church and people spoke. One cannot deny the timeless beauty though of it being prayed in Latin and one in which our ancestors centuries prior to and up to the Protestant Reformation would have heard it prayed in as there was only one Christian Church that existed up to that point in time in western Christendom. Eastern Christianity and their churches however, always prayed it in the language of the people.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:42:20 +0000