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The Book of Common Prayer

Posts in Comfortable Words attributed to The Book of Common Prayer

There are sixteen posts attributed to The Book of Common Prayer in the Extras section of Comfortable Words. To see all our authors, go to Authors.

The Apostles’ Creed

A short declaration of faith, from the early years of the Western churches.

A General Confession

A short prayer from the Book of Common Prayer, for use at morning and evening.

A Prayer for Mercy

A prayer from the end of the Litany, in sixteenth-century Book of Common Prayer.

A Prayer for the Clergy and People

A prayer from the sixteenth-century Book of Common Prayer.

A Prayer for the King’s Majesty

A prayer for the King, from the sixteenth-century Book of Common Prayer.

The Comfortable Words

Four short passages from the New Testament appointed to be read aloud in the English Book of Common Prayer of 1549.