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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.

The following twenty 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

A Collect for Christmas Eve

A short prayer from the Sarum Missal, for the night before Christmas.

2

The Prayer of St Ephraim

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

3

A Collect for the Assumption

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

4

The Apostles’ Creed

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

5

A General Confession

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

6

A Prayer for Mercy

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