Sources

Thomas Cranmer's prayer book in its three principal Tudor and Stuart editions. The 1662 edition is the principal source for Anglican prayers on this site.

Pope Pius V's missal, the foundational liturgical book of the post-Tridentine Latin Catholic Mass. Source for the Confiteor and other Mass texts.

The Tridentine breviary promulgated after the Council of Trent. Source for the present form of the Hail Mary and many Marian antiphons.

Isabel Florence Hapgood's English translation of the Eastern Orthodox liturgy. The principal English source for Orthodox prayers on this site.

The OCA's standard English prayer book.

Father Francis X. Lasance's compendium of Catholic prayers and devotions. The principal English source for many Catholic prayers and the Confiteor English form.

The principal source for scriptural prayers in English.

A modern public-domain English translation derived from the 1901 American Standard Version. Source for the Song of Hannah, the Prayer of Azariah, and the Prayer of Manasseh.

Edward Caswall's English translations of medieval Latin hymns. Source for the Pange Lingua, Tantum Ergo, O Salutaris Hostia, Stabat Mater, and Veni Creator Spiritus.

Charles and John Wesley's foundational hymn collection. Source for Jesus, Lover of My Soul.

Martin Luther's catechism, source for the Lutheran morning, evening, and mealtime prayers.

John Calvin's order of Reformed worship, source for Calvin's prayers for the Lord's Day.

The first published collection of African-American spirituals, source for Steal Away to Jesus.

The collected poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, including his English translation of Aquinas's Adoro Te Devote.

Jane Eliza Leeson's English translation of the Victimae Paschali Laudes.

Source for the Suscipe (the closing prayer of the Contemplation to Attain Love).

Aquinas's four Eucharistic hymns (Pange Lingua, Sacris Solemniis, Verbum Supernum, Adoro Te Devote) and the Lauda Sion sequence, commissioned by Pope Urban IV.

Standard English translation of the early Church Fathers. Source for the Prayer of Tertullian (from De Oratione) and the Prayer of Cyprian (from On the Unity of the Catholic Church and pastoral letters).

Companion series covering theologians from Athanasius through John of Damascus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons and pulpit prayers, source for the Spurgeon prayers for trust and strength.

The 3rd-century Greek papyrus fragment of the Sub Tuum Praesidium, dated c. 250 AD, held at the John Rylands Library, Manchester. The oldest known intercessory prayer to the Virgin Mary outside the New Testament.

Irish manuscript preserving the Lorica tradition associated with Saint Patrick, source for the Breastplate.

Ge'ez liturgical manuscripts preserving the Wudasse Maryam in the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church.

Olive Gilbert's biography of Sojourner Truth, dictated by Truth herself. The primary source for the editorial synthesis of her prayer.

Source for the demographic and prayer-practice statistics cited on the tradition pages and in the Faith in Practice column. See methodology for sourcing details.