ECUMENICAL TRADITION 74 PRAYERS

Ecumenical prayers

Prayers shared across Christian traditions: the Psalms, the Creeds, and the great scriptural classics 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 Psalm 91 Ancient Israelite

The shorter prayers

Sub Tuum Praesidium c. 250 AD 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 at the Communion of the Sick (BCP) 1662 AD A Prayer for a Sick Person 1662 A Prayer for Anointing of the Sick 1st century AD (biblical pattern) A Prayer for the Sick (BCP) 1662 AD 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)

Acts of virtue

The Suscipe 1548 AD

Biblical canticles

The Prayer of Azariah c. 2nd century BC The Prayer of Manasseh c. 2nd century BC The Song of Hannah c. 1000 BC

Confession and thanksgiving

The General Thanksgiving 1662

Daily prayers

Prayer Before an Icon Medieval

Family and bedtime

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

Marian and seasonal

Wudasse Maryam 14th century AD

Mass and Communion

Adoro Te Devote c. 1264 AD O Salutaris Hostia 1264 AD Pange Lingua Gloriosi 1264 AD Tantum Ergo 1264 AD The Anima Christi 14th century AD Victimae Paschali Laudes c. 1040 AD

Methodist

Jesus, Lover of My Soul 1740 AD

Modern Protestant

The Sinner's Prayer 20th century AD

Patristic

Prayer of Cyprian of Carthage c. 250 AD Prayer of Tertullian c. 200 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

Penitence and Passion

Stabat Mater 13th century AD

Scripture and Communion

Prayer of St. John Chrysostom 4th-5th century AD; Hapgood 1906; BCP 1662 Prayer of St. Symeon the New Theologian c. 1000 AD The Anaphora of St. Basil 4th century AD The Cherubic Hymn 6th century AD

Spirituals

Prayer of Sojourner Truth 19th century AD Steal Away to Jesus Pre-1865

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

Akathist to the Sweetest Lord Jesus 13th century AD The Jesus Prayer 5th century AD