Those first words of the prayer are even more remarkable because with them, we are invited to address God in the same way that Jesus does. God is Father eternally, and Israel, too, in its memory of God’s saving acts on its behalf, had known God by that name. But Jesus’ words—His use of the plural possessive pronoun “our” is the key—beckon us to take our place alongside Him, looking up to Him as our older brother (Heb 2:10–18),
