Prayers and Creeds

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

This prayer came at the close of Morning and Evening Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, the service book of the Church of England following the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Notice the phrase ‘high and mighty’, which has negative connotations in everyday speech but not here.

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

This prayer came at the close of Morning and Evening Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, the service book of the Church of England following the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

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

This prayer came at the close of the Litany in the Book of Common Prayer, the service book of the Church of England following the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

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This short prayer appeared in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549, as a preparation for holy communion.

Much of the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 was an elegant translation of the old Sarum Use of the mediaeval English church. This prayer, appointed for the Communion Service between the Comfortable Words and the distribution of the bread and wine, was one of the new ones. It blends passages from Mark 7:28 and John 6:56 with a traditional Roman collect and the Greek Liturgy of Saint Basil. Its name comes from the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637.

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A short prayer from Evensong in the Book of Common Prayer.

This Collect was appointed as the second of three prayers at the end of Evensong in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

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The third of three short prayers from the close of Evensong in the Book of Common Prayer.

This Collect was appointed as the third of three prayers at the end of Evensong in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

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