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The siddur and macḥzor are the two principal types of Jewish prayer books. Siddur from a Hebrew root meaning "order", refers to the prayer book generally used through the course of the year. The "complete" siddur will contain prayers for weekdays and Shabbat , for lifecycle events like weddings and circumcisions , and for most major and minor ...
A prayer book is a book containing prayers and perhaps devotional readings, for private or communal use, or in some cases, outlining the liturgy of religious services. Books containing mainly orders of religious services, or readings for them are termed "service books" or "liturgical books", and are thus not prayer-books in the strictest sense, but the term is often used very loosely.
The Afghan Liturgical Quire, the oldest known siddur in the world.From the 8th century [1]. A siddur (Hebrew: סִדּוּר sīddūr, [siˈduʁ, 'sɪdəʁ]; plural siddurim סִדּוּרִים) is a Jewish prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.
The machzor (Hebrew: מחזור, plural machzorim, pronounced and [maχzoˈʁim], respectively) is the prayer book which is used by Jews on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many Jews also make use of specialized machzorim on the three pilgrimage festivals of Passover , Shavuot , and Sukkot .
The Shehimo Book of Common Prayer is the breviary used in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.. The "contents of the breviary, in their essential parts, are derived from the early ages of Christianity", consisting of psalms, Scripture lessons, writings of the Church Fathers, as well as hymns and prayers. [6]
The 1549 prayer book and successive versions of the Book of Common Prayer would replace both missals and breviaries in regular Anglican liturgical practice. [ 4 ] As the Anglican tradition broadened to include modern anglo-catholicism , some Anglicans sought a return to a missal pattern for their liturgical books.
[17] The Anglican Communion, which includes the Church of England, The Episcopal Church and other member churches, has its own act of contrition, referred to in the Prayer Book as the General Confession. This is said by the Congregation en masse during worship. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer contains two versions. The first (for use at Matins ...
The word "Ardās" is derived from Persian word 'Arazdashat', meaning a request, supplication, prayer, petition or an address to a superior authority. Ardās is a unique prayer based on the fact that it is one of the few well-known prayers in the Sikh religion that was not written in its entirety by the Gurus.