This is why we should, as individuals and communities of faith, make use of the prayers of the church that have come down to us from the past. This is why, as individuals and communities of faith, we should pray the Psalter. This is the essence of the classical spiritual discipline of prayer: not our private, individualized prayers, but immersing ourselves in the deep, sacrificial prayers of the saints through which the church through the ages has offered itself to be the body of Christ in the world. Unless our individual prayer life exists within the greater support structure of the prayers
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