devotion given to people as different as Martha from Mary, Paul from James, and Peter from John. Yet to the direct question, “teach us to pray”, Christ’s answer was to compose an Office, the “set prayer” so much despised by English Puritans. Is there any significance in the Lucan version (11:1) where the disciples refer to the Baptist? May we guess that the spiritual teaching of this inspired solitary, this “professional” ascetic, would be very personal and interior? If so it is still more significant