[verga]

Luke 11:1-13 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

If this is the only prayer that protestants are allowed to say it really shoots that whole "vain repetition thing in the foot.

[metmom]

If this is the only prayer that protestants are allowed to say it really shoots that whole "vain repetition thing in the foot.

I don't know what Protestants do, but we Christian non-Catholics don't repeat canned prayers.

Since God is our Father we talk to Him like that.

I guess without canned prayers that others wrote for them to vainly repeat, the average Catholic wouldn't have a clue what to do or say to God the Father. Our prayers are not incantations with the thinking that *Well, if we say this, the right way, often enough, and with enough "sincerity", then SOMEONE SOMEWHERE must have to hear and answer....*

What a gross misunderstanding of prayer Catholicism has.

[Hoodat]

If this is the only prayer that protestants are allowed to say it really shoots that whole "vain repetition thing in the foot.

I'm not sure where you picked up this broad stereotype that non-Catholic Christians have some type of hierarchy over us that issues dictates as to what prayers we can and cannot say. Perhaps it is not clear to you that the Lord's Prayer was given, not as some canned prayer that we utter when we are unwilling to be real with God, but as a model or guide for prayer which can be summed up in a single acronym - ACTS.

Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication