Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Prayer/We May Superadd Prayers
Chapter X.—We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord’s Prayer.
Since, however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities,[1] said separately, after delivering His Rule of Prayer, “Ask, and ye shall receive;”[2] and since there are petitions which are made according to the circumstances of each individual; our additional wants have the right—after beginning with the legitimate and customary prayers as a foundation, as it were—of rearing an outer superstructure of petitions, yet with remembrance of the Master’s precepts.