Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Prayer/We May Superadd Prayers

Chapter X.&#8212;We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord&#8217;s Prayer.

Since, however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities, said separately, after delivering His Rule of Prayer, &#8220;Ask, and ye shall receive;&#8221; and since there are petitions which are made according to the circumstances of each individual; our additional wants have the right&#8212;after beginning with the legitimate and customary prayers as a foundation, as it were&#8212;of rearing an outer superstructure of petitions, yet with remembrance of the Master&#8217;s precepts.