The Lord's prayer, which contains seven petitions,
is celebrated to commemorate the seventh day, when Christ rested in the tomb.
On this seventh day the apostles labored in sadness and fear of the Jews,
and—if I am not mistaken— they prayed to be freed from evil, and attained what
they prayed for: the Lord's resurrection. Today the holy church also prays, as
it were on the seventh day, when—now that the souls of the saints are at
rest—it requests through fasting, vigils, praying and striving in charity that it
not be cut off from the hope of heavenly joys by the dangers of this world. Who
is there who does not beg to be freed from evil as long as he is in this world?
Nor should we do this carelessly, that a prayer to cleanse us of sin may
intervene before we participate in the body and blood of the Lord, lest we eat
and drink the Lord's body unworthily.
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