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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.
In the prayer book, the 1544 Litany was used and Holy Communion celebrated on these days. [35] The prayer book also included the sanctorale or calendar of saints with collects and scripture readings appropriate for the day. [34] However, it was reduced from 181 to 25 days. Only New Testament saints were commemorated, with the exception of All ...
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Prayer for a Child is a 1944 book by Rachel Field. Its artwork by Elizabeth Orton Jones won it a Caldecott Medal in 1945. [1] The whole book is narrated by a little girl, but it represents children as a whole. It reflects their love of God, and their gentleness to humankind as a whole.
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Despite the prohibition against it, they were likely used for teaching children with an alphabet inserted into one edition printed around 1564. [11]: 144–146 It is possible Elizabeth allowed the 1553-styled primers due to their proximity to the 1552 Book of Common Prayer which had been adapted as the 1559 prayer book she approved.
The Prayer Book Society was founded in 1972 as the Book of Common Prayer Action Group, following a small public meeting at Commander and Mrs Charles Drage's Kensington house. Anthony Kilmister OBE was prominent amongst the founders of the group, [ 3 ] which began as a conservative and sometimes controversialist reaction to proposals to outlaw ...
Janet Geddes from A History of Protestantism. Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.