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Signing Our Lord's Prayer

by Janeel Hew
(Molokai, Hawaii)

Aloha,

I know you are probably tired of me by now...but, I was wondering if you could let me know the proper ASL word order for the "Our Father"?

I can look up how to sign it, but I wanted to teach my Religious Education students to say the prayer in sign language, and I don't want to teach them with the wrong word order.

Sign Language is such a beautiful and emotional language that I feel it will also touch the beauty and emotions of our Lord's love. Some of my students know some ASL already so I think this will be a good inspiration for them to continue learning more of it. My classes don't start up again until Sept. so I'll have some time to practice it myself first.

Thanks in Advance, and God Bless all that you do.

Answer:

Hi Janeel! No, I'm not getting tired of you, I love reading your insights and support. :)

With regard to The Lord's Prayer, the best way to learn this is to watch videos on Youtube. There are several good translations and they are all different.

Here are my favorites:

The Lord's Prayer (ASL, American Sign Language)

Lord's Prayer in ASL

Bishop Peggy A. Johnson presents The Lord's Prayer - ASL

The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) - Tutorial

The best I can recommend you do is watch them all, compare them, and choose the translation that works best for you.

The last two have the words translated as you sign. I recommend you watch those first and see the basic signs that are used so you can watch the others and understand what they are signing.

Don't worry too much about word order, people translate text and songs in different ways. Some use ASL word order (like the second video) while others use ASL signs directly along with the translation. Just choose what works best for you.

Let me know if I can be of anymore help :)

God bless,

Michelle Jay

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