The Creed is a tissue of Biblical quotations first compiled in 325, and recited at every communion service to this day.

A short collection of prayers taken from the writings of Elfric, Abbot of Eynsham in the days of Ethelred the Unready.

Three prayers by much-loved novelist Jane Austen, who intended them for use by her family at evening time.

Two short prayers by the twelfth-century Durham monk, one to the Virgin Mary and another to St Nicholas.

A short prayer to Mary, blended from the greeting of the Archangel Gabriel and the greeting of her cousin Elizabeth.

Jesus Christ’s own example of how to pray, in English translations going back beyond the Norman Conquest.