people is never just ‘rattling off’ the words at surface level. The prayer of baptized people comes from a place deeper than we can penetrate with our minds or even our feelings. Prayer in the baptized community surges up from the depths of God’s own life. Or, to change the metaphor, you might say that we are carried along on a tide deeper than ourselves, welling up from God’s depths and the world’s. The prayer of baptized people is a growing and moving into the prayer of Jesus himself and therefore