text: I was a Roman Catholic going to the "Protestant" public school system.  The Catholic Lord's prayer is shorter than the pro testant prayer.  In the 1950's I stood and said the lord's prayer five days a week struggling to recall to stop earlier. In grade 7 protestant ministers came in to the classroom and gave some Christian education.  The school choir went on Sunday to sing in an Anglican church.  My parents let me go to check out the Anglican church.  In the 1970's, 80's (maybe) the protestant lord's prayer was said daily in schools that I taught in.  Finally, only the national anthem was a daily ritual.