Daily prayers

Daily prayer is the oldest continuous Christian practice, and the texts here mark the ordinary hours: waking, meals, scripture reading, and the end of the day. Some belong to fixed offices. The Collect for Grace and the opening of Morning Prayer come from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, as does the Collect for Aid Against All Perils said at Evening Prayer. The Collect for Purity, an 11th century Latin collect that Cranmer translated in 1549, opens the Anglican Communion service. Others were written for households rather than churches: Luther's morning, evening and mealtime prayers come from his Small Catechism of 1529, composed so that parents could teach them to children, and John Wesley's Covenant Prayer, introduced in 1755, is still said annually in Methodist churches. The collection also holds the Lord's Prayer, the Jesus Prayer, and the Trisagion Prayers that open nearly every Orthodox service.

Catholic

Prayer of Tertullian c. 200 AD Prayer to St. Joseph 19th century AD; Lasance 1913 Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel 1886 AD Prayer to the Guardian Angel Medieval (Latin original); 17th century (English verse form); Lasance 1913 The Act of Contrition 17th-18th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Act of Faith 17th-18th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Act of Hope 17th-18th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Act of Love 17th-18th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Angelus 15th century AD (full form); Lasance 1913 The Confiteor 16th century AD The Fatima Prayer 1917 AD The Hail Mary Luke 1:28, 42 (1st century AD); full form by 15th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Memorare 15th century AD; Lasance 1913 The Mysteries of the Rosary 15th century AD (traditional mysteries); 2002 AD (Luminous Mysteries) The Pater Noster 1st century AD (text); c. 400 AD (Vulgate Latin form) The Rosary Opening Prayers 1569 AD (standardized); Lasance 1913 The Salve Regina 11th century AD; Lasance 1913

Orthodox

Prayer at the Beginning of the Day 19th century AD; OCA Prayer Book 1979 Prayer at the End of the Day Traditional; OCA Prayer Book 1979 Prayer Before an Icon Medieval Prayer Before Reading Scripture Ancient; Hapgood 1906 Prayer of St. John Chrysostom 4th-5th century AD; Hapgood 1906; BCP 1662 Prayer of St. Symeon the New Theologian c. 1000 AD The Beatitudes: Orthodox Liturgical Form 1st century AD (text); Hapgood 1906 (liturgical form) The Cherubic Hymn 6th century AD The Jesus Prayer 5th century AD The Prayer of the Hours: An Introduction 4th-5th century AD; Hapgood 1906 The Trisagion Prayers Ancient; Hapgood 1906

Anglican

A Prayer for the Whole State of Christ's Church 1549 (original); 1662 (current form) Compline: The Order for Evening Prayer Ending 1st century AD (Nunc Dimittis); 1662 (BCP service) Evening Prayer: Opening 1549 (original); 1662 (current form) Morning Prayer: Opening 1549 (original); 1662 (current form) The Collect for Aid Against All Perils Ancient (Latin origin); 1549 (Cranmer translation); 1662 (current form) The Collect for Grace 1549 (original); 1662 (current form) The Collect for Peace Ancient (Latin origin); 1549 (Cranmer translation); 1662 (current form) The Collect for Purity 11th century AD (Latin origin); 1549 (Cranmer translation); 1662 (current form) The General Confession 1552 (original); 1662 (current form) The General Thanksgiving 1662 The Prayer of St. Chrysostom (BCP) Ancient attribution; 1544 (Cranmer); 1662 (BCP form)

Protestant

A Bedtime Prayer Traditional A Puritan Prayer 17th century Grace Before Meals Traditional Prayer for the Family at Mealtime Traditional Steal Away to Jesus Pre-1865

Ecumenical

Psalm 23 pre-6th century BC Psalm 51 pre-6th century BC Psalm 91 Ancient Israelite St. Patrick's Breastplate 8th century AD (manuscript); 1889 AD (Alexander translation) The Aaronic Blessing pre-6th century BC The Apostles' Creed pre-700 AD (Latin form); 1662 (English BCP form) The Beatitudes 1st century AD The Glory Be 4th century AD (Latin form); 1662 (English BCP form) The Lord's Prayer 1st century AD (biblical text); 1662 (English liturgical form, BCP) The Magnificat 1st century AD The Nicene Creed 325 AD (original); 381 AD (expanded form) The Prayer of Saint Anselm 1077-1078 The Prayer of Saint Augustine c. 397-401 AD The Prayer of St. Francis 1912 The Prayer of Thomas à Kempis c. 1418-1427 The Serenity Prayer c. 1943

Other

A Wesleyan Morning Prayer 18th century Luther's Evening Prayer 1529 Luther's Mealtime Prayers 1529 Luther's Morning Prayer 1529 Spurgeon's Prayer for Strength 19th century The Wesleyan Covenant Prayer 1755