Archbishop of York: Saying Lord’s Prayer with Pope Francis changed me

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said he had been privileged to meet Pope Francis on a few occasions, and remembered one encounter a few years ago when they prayed together.

Mr Cottrell said despite having said the Lord’s Prayer – also known as the Our Father – countless times before, it was when he said it with Francis that the significance of the word “our” came through.

He told Sky News: “I’ve said the Lord’s Prayer thousands of times – I say it every day – but sitting there saying the Lord’s Prayer with Pope Francis, the opening word of the Lord’s Prayer suddenly struck me – our.

“Our Father, our God, and what that means, therefore, is that everybody else who says this prayer is my sister and my brother, whether I like it or not, these are the people that God has made into his church.

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