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Prayers and Creeds

Praying figures from an English Book of Hours, fourteenth century.

From an English Book of Hours, c. 1300-1400, via the Walters Art Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Source

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Prayers and Creeds

Prayers and confessions of faith from the Book of Common Prayer and other sources, in both East and West.

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The following nineteen items have been tagged Prayers and Creeds.

This is a collection of prayers and confessions of faith. Many are taken from the Book of Common Prayer, one of the richest treasuries of Church English, and largely a translation of the Latin liturgy used by the mediaeval English church; other sources include the liturgies of Greece and Russia.

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1

The Prayer of St Ephraim

Attributed to St Ephraim the Syrian

A prayer recited frequently during Great Lent in the Greek and Russian churches.

2

A Collect for the Assumption

From The Sarum Missal

A short prayer from the Sarum Missal, for the anniversary of the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary

3

The Apostles’ Creed

From The Book of Common Prayer

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

4

A General Confession

From The Book of Common Prayer

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

5

A Prayer for Mercy

From The Book of Common Prayer

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

6

A Prayer for the Clergy and People

From The Book of Common Prayer

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

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