Patristic A.D. 735
“We should say that he is always praying, and faints not, who never fails to pray at the canonical hours. Or all things which the righteous man does and says towards God, are to be counted as praying.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 18:1-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗