Pope Francis Wants to Change Wording of the Lord's Prayer

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According to this article, Pope Francis wants to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation," which is a French translation. The theological shift (to us) is good, but I'm unsure of changing such longstanding wording.
 
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I haven't read anything from any Catholic sources yet. I say leave it as it is. I have not read the article yet as I am doing errands. Maybe he wanted it changed in a liturgical setting?
According to this article, Pope Francis wants to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation," which is a French translation. The theological shift (to us) is good, but I'm unsure of changing such longstanding wording.
 
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PATER noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
 
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I haven't read anything from any Catholic sources yet. I say leave it as it is. I have not read the article yet as I am doing errands. Maybe he wanted it changed in a liturgical setting?
Michie, you are falling down on the job. ;) This is first that I've seen of it. Maybe it's another lost in translation article on what the Pope said.
 
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According to this article, Pope Francis wants to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation," which is a French translation. The theological shift (to us) is good, but I'm unsure of changing such longstanding wording.
What does the Greek say?
 
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I'll try to catch up when I'm done! :D
Michie, you are falling down on the job. ;) This is first that I've seen of it. Maybe it's another lost in translation article on what the Pope said.
 
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The following is from The Great Commentary Of Cornelius À Lapide:
And lead us not, &c. Lead, not impel, as Calvin would interpret. For “God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man,” saith S. James (1:13). God only permits us to be led into temptation. So the Fathers and all Catholics. In a manner, God is said to do what He permits, since nothing can be done without His suffering it to be. The meaning then is—1. Permit us not to be led into temptation in such a manner, at least, that we are overcome by it, as fishes and birds are taken in a net. “Let us not,” as S. Augustine says, “be bereft of Thy help, so that we should be deceived and consent to any temptation.”

2. Suffer not temptation to befall us. And yet in the Lives of the Fathers, we read, that certain saints wished for temptations as a means of increasing virtue, through fortitude of mind and trust in God. Whence S. James says, “My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.” For by temptation we are proved and exercised, we fight and are perfected. Christ therefore puts us in mind of our infirmity, and that because of it, we ought not to expose ourselves to temptations; but should, as far as may be, ward them off, and pray against them. And we can only overcome temptation by the help of God’s grace. Wherefore in temptation we must continually and ardently pray for God’s help. As S. Peter Chrysologus says, (Serm. 44), “He goes into temptation, who goes not to prayer.” And S. Gregory Nyssen says (Orat. 1 de Orat. Domin.), “If prayer precede business, sin findeth no way of access to the mind.”
 
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I would be fine with this change. I probably wouldn't use the new wording because I am so used to the old one but the new wording does more clearly express the meaning of this particular line in the prayer.
 
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The Cathecism from Trent

THE SIXTH PETITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER: " AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION."



Importance Of Instruction On This Petition
When the children of God, having obtained the pardon of their sins, are inflamed with the desire of giving to God worship and veneration; when they long for the kingdom of heaven; when they engage in the performance of all the duties of piety towards the Deity, relying entirely on His paternal will and providence, 限 then it is that the enemy of mankind employs the more actively all his artifices, and prepares all his resources to attack them so violently as to justify the fear that, wavering and altered in their sentiments, they may relapse into sin, and thus become far worse than they had been before. To such as these may justly be applied the saying of the Prince of the Apostles: It had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

Hence Christ the Lord has commanded us to offer this Petition so that we may commend ourselves daily to God, and implore His paternal care and assistance, being assured that, if we be deserted by the divine protection, we shall soon fall into the snares of our most crafty enemy.

Nor is it in the Lord's Prayer alone that He has commanded us to beg of God not to suffer us to be led into temptation. In His address to the holy Apostles also, on the very eve of His death, after He had declared them clean, He admonished them of this duty in these words: Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

This admonition, reiterated by Christ the Lord, imposes on the pastor the weighty obligation of exciting the faithful to a frequent use of this prayer, so that, beset as men constantly are by the great dangers which the devil prepares, they may ever ad dress to God, who alone can repel those dangers, the prayer, Lead us not into temptation.'

THE CATECHISM OF TRENT: The Lord's Prayer - Sixth Petition
 
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