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10/30/26 Thine the Kingdom · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps some of you have been shocked when you're praying with
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  SPEAKER_00: the Protestant Christians to hear them add that to the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or perhaps some of you were Protestant Christians who were shocked to come
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  SPEAKER_00: to Catholic Church and not hear that added to the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's always kind of seemed like a strange thing to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like,
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  SPEAKER_00: why would Protestants of all people who are so,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: supposedly focused on the gospel and add this thing onto the Our Father that's not
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  SPEAKER_00: in the Bible?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it is in their Bible, actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in the King James Version of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: The King James Version of the Bible ends the Our Father with the words,
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  SPEAKER_00: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory are.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's because the King James was retranslated from medieval Greek translations
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  SPEAKER_00: the Bible,
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  SPEAKER_00: and those medieval Greek texts were drawing from the Byzantine tradition,
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  SPEAKER_00: which was drawing from an ancient Christian liturgical tradition,
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  SPEAKER_00: which added that onto the Our Father in the liturgy, in the Mass.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can see that in the Didache,
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  SPEAKER_00: an ancient Christian text in which the Our Father finishes,
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  SPEAKER_00: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's not in the original scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not what Jesus said.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can tell that by looking at the most ancient texts.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's what they started to add to the Our Father in the liturgy because it's
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  SPEAKER_00: a nice sort of liturgical ending to the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then that came to be added to the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then that came to be a part of certain Christian traditions.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't done that in the Catholic Church because we've gone back
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  SPEAKER_00: that original, you know, translation of the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: However,
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  SPEAKER_00: interestingly enough,
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  SPEAKER_00: you'll notice in the liturgy that we say after that little piece,
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  SPEAKER_00: after the Our Father,
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  SPEAKER_00: for the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours now and forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we do have that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do have that now in our liturgy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have re-added that to our liturgy with the liturgical reform.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've taken that little line that is kind of said by Orthodox Christians,
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  SPEAKER_00: by Protestants, We've incorporated that as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people, even friends of mine, don't like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are we doing incorporating Protestant things into our Catholic Mass?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's not quite that simple, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's an ancient liturgical expression from the earliest times of the Church.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: we incorporated it into the Mass after the reform of the liturgy,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it wasn't there in the Mass of the Council of Trent.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a beautiful thing that we can incorporate Things from other traditions
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  SPEAKER_00: that we can try as much as possible to go out of our way to include things
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  SPEAKER_00: that other people have in their liturgical traditions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or to be as ecumenical as we can be.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with trying to pray with all other Christians this kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of beautiful conclusion for the kingdom,
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  SPEAKER_00: the power, and the glory are yours forever and ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's kind of a beautiful little thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that We should, when we pray that, pray for Christian unity, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Part of the reason for adding that is to try to be in union
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  SPEAKER_00: with all other Christians, and we should pray for Christian unity.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should pray that all Christians are able to be a part of the one true church.
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  SPEAKER_00: We shouldn't be indifferent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we have a certain indifferentism where we're like,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, well, that's good for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know, you're Orthodox.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's good for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're Protestant.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to judge people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to condemn them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in the one true church, that's where Christianity continues outside of the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Christ says, cut off from the vine, the branches wither.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can see that in Anglicanism, this ancient, beautiful tradition that's sort of withering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their congregations are in free fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: The number of people they have are in free fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can even see that in Orthodox Christianity,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is totally, you know, good in many ways, sacramental.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what's happening in Russia, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Orthodox Church in Russia is basically completely blessing and supporting
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  SPEAKER_00: a genocidal war against another brother people, basically.
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  SPEAKER_00: That makes no sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is it that a church, that a group of Christians would do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're cut off from the universal church,
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  SPEAKER_00: the authority that Christ left on earth, it's easy to fall into error of all sorts.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Protestant land, our brothers and sisters, they're always splitting, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Churches are splitting.
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  SPEAKER_00: People go this way,
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  SPEAKER_00: people go that way, because there's no central authority to keep everyone together.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have my idea, you have your idea, let's each found our own church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Split, split, split, right across the board.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why we want to pray that every Christian is able to be united in one church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we pray this little prayer in the liturgy, it's an opportunity to pray that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we pray that prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us remember this reality and let us pray as Christ prayed at the Last Supper
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  SPEAKER_00: that they may be one as Christ and the Father and the Spirit are one.