ECUMENICAL TRADITION 47 PRAYERS

Ecumenical prayers

Prayers shared across Christian traditions: those drawn directly from scripture and the earliest councils of the Church. The Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, the Beatitudes, the Magnificat, the Te Deum, the Sanctus, the Aaronic Blessing, and the Psalms most often used in Christian worship.

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The Lord's Prayer family

The Lord's Prayer 1st century AD (biblical text); 1662 (English liturgical form, BCP) The Pater Noster 1st century AD (text); c. 400 AD (Vulgate Latin form)

The Creeds

The Apostles' Creed pre-700 AD (Latin form); 1662 (English BCP form) The Nicene Creed 325 AD (original); 381 AD (expanded form)

The great hymns

The Magnificat 1st century AD The Sanctus 1st century AD The Te Deum 4th century AD Veni Creator Spiritus 9th century AD Veni Sancte Spiritus 13th century AD

The Psalms

Psalm 23 pre-6th century BC Psalm 51 pre-6th century BC

The shorter prayers

The Agnus Dei c. 700 AD (liturgical form) The Glory Be 4th century AD (Latin form); 1662 (English BCP form) The Kyrie 4th century AD The Trisagion pre-500 AD

Modern

The Prayer of Jabez pre-10th century BC The Prayer of St. Francis 1912 The Serenity Prayer c. 1943

Scriptural blessings

The Aaronic Blessing pre-6th century BC The Beatitudes 1st century AD

Life passages

A Prayer at a Funeral Traditional; BCP 1662 language A Prayer Before a Wedding Traditional; BCP 1662 language A Prayer for a Newborn Traditional; BCP 1662 language A Prayer for an Anniversary Traditional

Health and recovery

A Prayer for a Sick Person 1662 A Prayer in Sorrow Contemporary traditional form A Prayer of Thanksgiving for a Recovery 1662

Christian year

A Christmas Prayer 1662 A Prayer for the Forty Days of Lent 1662 A Prayer for the Holy Spirit at Pentecost 1662 A Thanksgiving Day Prayer Traditional American An Advent Prayer Traditional; BCP 1662 language An Easter Prayer 1662 (BCP form); ancient (Orthodox form)

Other

St. Patrick's Breastplate 8th century AD (manuscript); 1889 AD (Alexander translation)

Confession and thanksgiving

The General Thanksgiving 1662

Family and bedtime

A Bedtime Prayer Traditional Grace Before Meals Traditional Prayer for the Family at Mealtime Traditional

Mass and Communion

The Anima Christi 14th century AD

Patristic and medieval

The Prayer of Saint Anselm 1077-1078 The Prayer of Saint Augustine c. 397-401 AD The Prayer of Thomas à Kempis c. 1418-1427

Scripture and Communion

Prayer of St. John Chrysostom 4th-5th century AD; Hapgood 1906; BCP 1662

The Collects

The Collect for Advent Sunday Ancient (Latin origin); 1549 (Cranmer translation); 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 Jesus Prayer and hesychasm

The Jesus Prayer 5th century AD