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Every day, thousands of Masses are said around the world—and the Lord’s Prayer is recited in every one of them. Millions of rosaries are also prayed around the world every day—and the Lord’s Prayer is recited with each decade.
This prayer is also recited during morning and evening prayer, and often at Eucharistic Adoration. It’s prayed spontaneously at countless other times, and may well be the most memorized prayer among all Christians.
As simple as this famous prayer is, it also contains profound words of praise and petition. In this article, we want to focus on one petition that often gets less attention than the others: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
We tend to link these words with the Second Coming—and rightly so. We should pray that the Lord’s kingdom will come in its full glory. However, there is more to this petition than a prayer for a future event. Implicit in these words is Jesus’ desire that we all come to learn what is going on in…
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