The Lord’s Prayer and Rite of Peace · The Lord’s Prayer and Rite of Peace follow immediately after the Eucharistic Prayer aiding and preparing us to receive Christ in Holy Communion. · The Lord’s Prayer (the Our Father) is very well known to us since we pray it at every Mass, in every Rosary, and perhaps in our own daily prayers. We pray it so often because it is a powerful prayer: it is the Word of God (Matthew 6 / Luke 11); it was on the very lips of Jesus; it reflects how Jesus prayed to God; it is how Jesus taught his disciples to pray; and Jesus still prays it with us now. It is no wonder then why the priest introduces it with the words: “we dare to say.” · As children of God, we are blessed to be able to call God our Father. In this prayer, we ask our loving and caring Father that He provide everything we need in our journey of faith, especially that He free us from sin and feed us with “daily bread,” which is Jesus Christ. Our praying of the Lord’s Prayer finds its greatest meaning and importance at Mass for the Eucharist strengthens us against sin and empowers us to show forth Christ in our lives. Every other praying of this prayer should point us to Mass and the Eucharist. · In the Rite of Peace, which immediately follows the Lord’s Prayer, the priest prays to Christ asking that He grant us and our world His peace, just as He offered the disciples after His resurrection. The peace we share at this point in Mass is the Peace of Christ; it is not some type of common greeting or well wishes, but Divine. The risen Christ offers us His peace through His Body, the Church; so, this action is to be done with reverence, for Christ is preparing us through each other to encounter and receive Him in the Eucharist.