Editing Lord's Prayer (section)

===First Petition===
{{Blockquote | Hallowed be thy Name;}}
{{see also|Names of God in Christianity|Matthew 6:9}}
Former [[archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Rowan Williams]] explains this phrase as a petition that people may look upon God's name as holy, as something that inspires awe and reverence, and that they may not trivialize it by making God a tool for their purposes, to "put other people down, or as a sort of magic to make themselves feel safe". He sums up the meaning of the phrase by saying: "Understand what you're talking about when you're talking about God, this is serious, this is the most wonderful and frightening reality that we could imagine, more wonderful and frightening than we can imagine."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Rowan |author-link=William Rowan |date=2009-08-06 |title=Reflections: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/prayer/lordsprayer_1.shtml |access-date=2020-07-14 |website=[[BBC]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

[[Richard Challoner]] writes that: "[t]his petition claims the first place in the Lord's prayer [...]; because the first and principal duty of a Christian is, to love his God with his whole heart and soul, and therefore the first and principal thing he ought to desire and pray for is, the great honor and glory of God."{{Sfn|Challoner|1915|p=[[s:Page:Thelordsprayeran00chaluoft.djvu/17|13]]}}