Our Father

The Lord's Prayer

By: Pope Francis

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Mark Bramhall

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Pope Francis illuminates the Lord’s Prayer, the most important prayer in all of Christianity, offering readers a guide to living a life of meaning, purpose, and strength.

In conversation with Father Marco Pozza, a theologian and prison chaplain in Padua, Italy, Pope Francis offers unprecedented insight into Jesus’s most profound words as he explores the importance of embracing social justice, benevolence, and forgiveness in our hearts and minds.

“We need courage to pray the Our Father,” writes Pope Francis, “to truly believe that God is the Father who accompanies us, forgives us, gives us bread, is attentive to all that we ask, clothes us even better than the flowers of the field. To believe is a big risk.” Challenging this doubt and fear, he issues a call to “dare . . . help one another to dare.”


With excerpts from some of the Pontiff’s most cherished teachings, this beautiful work offers words of encouragement and inspiration for all who are seeking hope and direction in our often tumultuous world.

Critic reviews

“Simple, direct, deeply pastoral, funny, and spiritually wise, this book is pure Pope Francis. Anyone who seeks a deeper relationship with our Father in heaven will savor it.” — Robert Barron, Auxillary Bishop of Los Angeles and author of To Light a Fire on the Earth

"Praying with Our Father: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer brings richer meaning to this most familiar of Christian prayers. Pope Francis offers us the splendid gift of his reflections on the richness of the Lord’s Prayer. Here we come to learn all over again that God is our Father who cares about us, our needs and desires to draw us ever closer to himself. In short, easy to read chapters, Pope Francis reflects on every line of the Our Father in a way that each of us is led more deeply into the richness of this most familiar of all Christian prayers." — Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington D.C. and author of The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition

"An absolutely magnificent series of meditations on Christianity's most important prayer by one of the great spiritual masters of our time--of any time." — James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

"At the foundation of spiritual life is a fact: we are children of God. To be saved is to have the right to call God ‘Our Father.’ How good to have the words of this paternal prayer explained by the man we call ‘Holy Father.’ This book is a gift." — Mike Aquilina, EWTN host and author of Seven Revolutions

"In the magnificent world of Poetry & Hip-Hop, when someone performs a great verse it is said that 'he or she has bars.' It was beyond beautiful and enlightening to see the 'bars' of this powerful prayer broken down verse by verse by Pope Francis. Our Father feels like a warm conversation with wise friends. The height of the message grounded me. Eyes closed, my feet fell firm, my soul spoke, and my heart uncorked its distracted ears. The Spirit is present here. The words written here within the binding of this manuscript spoke to me the way I want to speak to Our Father in heaven. Scribed with peace, love was felt in each phrase. Each page, purposed in prayer, pushed me to look deeper, reflect, and be grateful. My prayers re-aimed with the sole goal of recharging the texture of our souls. At the speed of a prayer, I was reminded of how precious it is to have the unique ability of communicating with the Most High. In our heart of hearts, we all want to make it home to our Father. This book is the perfect GPS for the soul. Amen!" — J. Ivy, Performance Poet, Recording Artist, and author of Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain

Everything that we need to hear

Thank you so much Pope Francis for sharing us your reflections about the Lord's Prayer. You have tackled a lot of things such as the role of God the father,our biological father, family, forgiveness, the Passion of Jesus and a lot more. It filled my soul so much which is what I need in my life.

Needed this

Beautiful way to contemplate each part of the Lord’s Prayer. Very much enjoyed this discussion.

How to understand "Our Father" better way ...

To undestand better "Our Father" this book is the must ... you can prey it for ages, and still you will find several new dimensions and/or angels, you had never thought about before ...

No words

The Holy Father’s reflections on the Lord’s Prayer so often mirror and reassure my own that in listening to his words my heart breaks open again and again. I have no other words which can possibly justify or stand as placeholders for listening to this for oneself. There is grace in it, grace of being in the company of the Holy Father and of our Father and soaking in the Love of both.

Not Pope Francis' Wednesday audience version

I purchased this thinking it was an audio version of the Wednesday audiences that the Pope did a few years ago focused on the Lord's Prayer. This is not that! Nice short reflections on the Our Father, but line is blurred between whose words these are. Not worth a credit. Less than 2 hours of audio.