Description
Fine dust jacket. The Fine binding is paper over boards with a color illustration of children surrounded by doves and flowers, no lettering on front cover, yellow lettering on green colored spine, rear cover has an illustration flowers. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustrations, the jacket has brick red, green, and black printing. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Tasha Tudor’s signature is on the top of the front free endpaper.
About the book: (From the book)
The best known of all Christian prayers is illustrated here in sensitive watercolors by one of America’s foremost artists. Tasha Tudor’s interpretation captures the reverent simplicity of the familiar and beloved prayer. Although the images are drawn from her own surroundings in rural New England, they bespeak a universal faith. The text is taken from the Book of Common Prayer, which is based in turn upon the words of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. Ms. Tudor’s illustrations eloquently express the faith and wisdom of the words. Here is a book to share with all members of the family, a book to be cherished by young and old alike.
About Tasha Tudor (From the book)
Tasha Tudor is one of America’s most distinguished and beloved artists; her both children and adults. Her first book was illustrations have brought her many honors and awards, and are cherished by published in 1938, and since then she has illustrated more than sixty others, many of which she also wrote.
Ms. Tudor lives in southern Vermont in a charming house of her own design, surrounded by her beautiful flower and vegetable gardens and orchards overlooking Peaceful meadows and rich woodlands. She shares her home with several corgi dogs, an enormous Irish wolfhound, over two dozen birds, a trio of cats and a pet snake, as well as various temporary residents — farm or woodland creatures that often serve as her models. Several a of her children and grandchildren live near enough for frequent visits.
Born in Boston, Ms. Tudor grew up in New England in the countryside she so lovingly portrays in her illustrations. Give Us This Day: The Lord’s Prayer is a companion volume to her book The Lord Is My Shepherd: The Twenty-Third Psalm. Both works express deeply felt reverence that speaks to both old a and young.
About The Lord’s Prayer (From the book)
The Lord’s Prayer comes to us from two Biblical accounts of the words of Jesus: in the Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 11, verses 2-4, and in the Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 6, verses 9-13. Both versions agree in essence, but wording. Matthew`s version is the more familiar one, but there are some slight variations in usage, due, probably, to the there are small differences in fact that it has been translated several times and from several sources.
Some readers, for instance, may be more accustomed to the word “debts” than the word “trespasses,”” which is used in this book. The appearance of the word “”trespasses” in the Lord’s Prayer derived from William Tyn- is dale’s translation of the Bible into English from Hebrew and Greek originals,. Tyndale’s was not the first English translation of the Bible, but it was the first English version to be printed-it appeared in 1526-and therefore had considerable impact. It was soon followed by several other translations, but it was Tyndale’s use of “trespasses” in the Lord’s Prayer that was followed in the Book of Common Prayer (1549) of the Church of England, and, in 1789, in the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Roman Catholic churches in English-speaking countries also use this version of the prayer
But in spite of the small differences in wording that exist, all Christians agree on the essential meaning of this most universal of all prayers. Indeed, the significance of the Lord’s Prayer is not restricted to Christians. First formulated by Jesus for His followers, Jews and Gentiles alike, as the proper way for them to address their God, it remains a magnificent expression of faith, that can be valued and loved by all peoples.
