On the Third Petition.

412. What means the petition, Thy will be done? Hereby we ask of God that all we do, and all that befalls us, may be ordered not as we will, but as pleases him.

413. Why need we ask this? Because we often err in our wishes; but God unerringly, and incomparably more than we ourselves, wishes for us all that is good, and is ever ready to bestow it, unless he be prevented by our willfulness and obstinacy. Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the Church. Eph. iii. 20, 21 .

414. Why do we ask that God's will be done in earth as in heaven? Because in heaven the holy angels and saints in bliss, all without exception, always, and in all things, do God's will.