On prayer and the contemplative life · Aquinas, Saint Thomas
1. We are bound in our prayer to follow the norm which our Lord
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delivered to us; but in the Lord's Prayer we pray for ourselves and not for others, for we say: Give us this day our daily bread, etc.
But S. Cyprian says: "We do not say my Father, but our Father, neither do we say Give me, but give us; and this because the Teacher of Unity did not wish prayer to be made privately, viz., that each should pray for himself alone; for He wished one to pray for all since He in His single Person had borne all."
