Prayers and Creeds

Posts in Comfortable Words tagged ‘Prayers and Creeds’

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The Lord’s Prayer The Book of Common Prayer

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

The Lord’s Prayer is an ancient compilation from two Biblical prayers given by Jesus Christ, in the Gospels of St Matthew and St Luke. The translation below is from the Book of Common Prayer of 1662. Beneath it, there is a translation into Old English given by Elfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955-1010), which he read out in the course of a sermon on the Lord’s Prayer.

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Hail, Mary! The Gospel According to St Luke

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

This famous acclamation joins the greeting of the Archangel Gabriel when he announced to Mary the conception of her child Jesus, to the greeting of her cousin Elizabeth when the two women, now both pregnant, subsequently met. In both East and West today, additional lines are usually added; in the service books of the English Church of the Middle Ages, these two lines were enough.

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Some Prayers of St Bede St Bede of Jarrow

A short collection of prayers by the eight-century monk from the monastery of St Peter and St Paul.

In his day, St Bede (?672-735) was one of Europe’s most celebrated scholars, and was the first Englishman to write a history of our nation. These prayers, translated from the Latin, may be found among the works traditionally attributed to him.

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