Q120: Why has Christ commanded us to address God as our Father?

To awaken in us

at the very beginning of our prayer that childlike reverence and trust toward God which should be basic to our prayer:

God has become our Father

through Christ and will much less deny us what we ask of him in faith than our fathers would refuse us earthly things.1

Q121: Why is there added, in heaven?

These words teach us

not to think of God’s heavenly majesty

in an earthly manner,1

and to expect from his almighty power

all things we need

for body and soul.2