Daily Prayer And Grace

Post hic dicimus: Sanctificetur Nomen tuum. Non quod optemus Deo ut sanctificitur orationibus nostris, sed quod petamus ab eo ut nomen ejus sanctificetur in nobis. Ceterum a quo Deus sanctificetur, qui ipse sanctificat? Sed quia ipse dixit: Sancti estote, quoniam et ego sanctus sum, id petimus et rogamus, ut qui in baptismo sanctificati sumus, in eo quod esse coepimus perseveremus, et hoc quotidie deprecamur. Opus est enim nobis quotidiana sanctificatione, ut qui quotidie delinquimus, delicta nostra sanctificatione assidua repurgemus. Quae autem sit sanctificatio quae nobis de Dei dignatione confertur, Apostolus praedicat dicens: Neque fornicarii neque idolis servientes; neque adulteri, neque molles, neque masculorum a appetiores, neque fures, neque fraudatores, neque ebriosi, neque maledici, neque raptores regnum Dei. Et haec quidem fuistis, sed abluti estis, sed justificati estis, sed sanctificati estis in nomine Domini Jesu Christi, et in spiritu Dei nostri. Sanctificatos nos dicit in nomine Domini Jesu Christi et in spiritu Dei nostri. Haec sanctificatio ut in nobis permaneat oramus: et quia Dominus et judex noster sanato a se et justificato comminatur * jam non delinquere, ne quid deterius fiat, hanc orationibus precem facimus hoc diebus ac noctibus postulamus, ut sanctificatio et vivicatio quae de Dei gratia sumitur, ipsius protectione servetur Sanctus Cyprianus, De Oratione Dominica Source: Migne PL 4.526c-527b

After this we say, 'Hallowed be Your name.' 1 Not that we wish that God might be sanctified by our prayers, but we ask Him that His name may be sanctified in us. For by whom is God sanctified, since He Himself sanctifies? But because He says, 'Be holy, even as I am holy,' 2 we ask and entreat that we who in baptism were sanctified may persevere in that which we have begun to be, and this we pray for every day. For we need daily sanctification, that we who daily fall away may wash away our sins by continual sanctification. And what the sanctification is which is conferred upon us by the condescension of God, the Apostle declares, saying: 'Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor those who lay with men, nor thieves, nor deceivers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such indeed were you, but you are washed, but you are justified, but you are sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.' 3 He says that we are sanctified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God. We pray that this sanctification may remain in us, and because our Lord and our Judge warns the man who was healed and revived by Him to sin no more lest something worse befall him, we make this petition in our prayers day and night, that the sanctification and renewel which is received from the grace of God may be preserved by His protection. Saint Cyprian of Carthage, On The Lord's Prayer 1 Mt 6.9 2 Lev 20.7 1 Cor 6.9-11