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prayer book

1. Ecclesiast a book containing the prayers used at church services or recommended for private devotions
2. Church of England another name for Book of Common Prayer
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With the help of her "My First Prayer Book," she offers a collection of stories and prayers with pictures and illustrations to guide kids such as herself to start their path with God.
Updike had submitted two typographic schemes for the new Prayer Book, one set in Jan van Krimpen's new Lutetia type, and the other set in Janson.
Facing certain death at the hands of the German infantry Tommy was stabbed by a bayonet but as if by miracle a prayer book he kept in his uniform stifled the blow and saved his life.
Rabbi Edward Feld, who oversaw the creation of Siddur Lev Shalem, joins Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to talk about the whats, whys, and hows behind this new prayer book.
For Anglicans, doctrine is enshrined (in part) in our liturgical formularies, and thus changes in the prayer book have potential doctrinal implications.
By placing the 1549 and 1559 texts in the same collection as the familiar 1662 version, Cummings is able to illustrate the textual transformations that the Book of Common Prayer experienced over more than one hundred years of development, but also that what exactly comprised the prayer book was by no means a fixed matter.
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country: A Facsimile Edition & Translation of a Prayer Book in Cree Syllabics by Father Emile Grouard, OMI.
Christmas the year prior, he received a prayer book written in English and Latin, which was common for Catholic literature prior to the 1970s.
THE Hail Mary is the alltime favourite prayer for families, a new prayer book compiled by over 800 children has found.
The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold; a study of a Flemish masterpiece from the Burgundian Court.
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