The injunction for Christians to pray the Lord's prayer thrice daily was given in Didache 8, 2 f., which, in turn, was influenced by the Jewish practice of praying thrice daily found in the Old Testament, specifically in Psalm 55:17, which suggests 'evening and morning and at noon', and Daniel 6:10, in which the prophet Daniel prays thrice a day. Matthew 6:9-13) is how Jesus taught his disciples to pray. The most common prayer among Christians is the ' Lord's Prayer', which according to the gospel accounts (e.g.
While praying, certain gestures usually accompany the prayers, including folding one's hands, bowing one's head, kneeling (often in the kneeler of a pew in corporate worship or in the kneeler of a prie-dieu in private worship), and prostration. Ĭhristian prayers are diverse: they can be completely spontaneous, or read entirely from a text, such as from a breviary, which contains the canonical hours that are said at fixed prayer times. Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice.
