…the teacher of unity, does not want prayer to be performed individually and privately, so that the one who prays does so merely for himself. We do not say: “My Father, who art in heaven”, or “give me this day my daily bread”, no one asks that his trespasses alone be forgiven or pleads privately for himself that he not be led into temptation and that he be delivered from evil. We pray, namely, publicly and together with others, not for one alone but for all the people, for as such we are one.
ST. CYPRIAN
