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The Lord’s Prayer, Thomas Aquinas once wrote, is “the most perfect prayer that we can say.” That prayer is still sung in Aramaic, the language spoken in Israel during Jesus’ lifetime and likely the language he and his disciples used in everyday speech. Because the Gospels were written in Greek, this is a translation back into Aramaic as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church in its liturgy.

Listen to the Lord’s Prayer sung in Aramaic.