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What (who) is prayer book - definition
Prayer book
BOOK CONTAINING PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONAL READINGS
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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.
prayer book
BOOK CONTAINING PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONAL READINGS
Prayer Book; Prayerbook; Prayer-Books; Prayer Books; Prayer-books; Prayerbooks; Prayer-book; Prayer books
(prayer books)
A prayer book is a book which contains the prayers which are used in church or at home.
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Book of Common Prayer
![William III]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1689 Prayerbook Collect for 5 November.jpg?width=200 "William III]].")
![Anglo-Catholic]] [[Anglican Service Book]] (1991), a traditional-language version of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anglican Service Book (1991).jpg?width=200 "Anglo-Catholic]] [[Anglican Service Book]] (1991), a traditional-language version of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer")
.jpg?width=200 "Title page of the 1662 Prayer Book")
.png?width=200 "The 1878 prayer book for the use of the Church of Ireland.")
![St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral]] in [[Manila]], Philippines.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Book of Common Prayer Chinese-English Diglot.jpg?width=200 "St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral]] in [[Manila]], Philippines.")
![Sagada]], [[Mountain Province]], Philippines.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Book of Common Prayers in a Church in Sagda.jpg?width=200 "Sagada]], [[Mountain Province]], Philippines.")
![A collection of various editions of the ''Book of Common Prayer'', derivatives, and associated liturgical texts from within the Anglican Communion, Catholic Church, and [[Western Rite Orthodoxy]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Collection of Books of Common Prayer and Derivatives.png?width=200 "A collection of various editions of the ''Book of Common Prayer'', derivatives, and associated liturgical texts from within the Anglican Communion, Catholic Church, and [[Western Rite Orthodoxy]].")
![[[Edward Bouverie Pusey]], a leader of the [[Oxford Movement]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward Bouverie Pusey.jpg?width=200 "[[Edward Bouverie Pusey]], a leader of the [[Oxford Movement]].")
![''The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church'', English translation of the 1889 revised Prayer Book used in the [[Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church (title page).png?width=200 "''The Revised Prayer-Book of the Reformed Spanish Church'', English translation of the 1889 revised Prayer Book used in the [[Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church]].")
![[[Thomas Cranmer]] (1489–1556), editor and co-author of the first and second Books of Common Prayer](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke.jpg?width=200 "[[Thomas Cranmer]] (1489–1556), editor and co-author of the first and second Books of Common Prayer")
PRAYER BOOK USED IN MOST ANGLICAN CHURCHES
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The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome.
Examples of use of prayer book
1. In the 1'80s we produced the New Zealand Prayer Book.
2. A young man read from his prayer book as soldiers carried him to a bus.
3. The synagogue‘s first rabbi, Simeon Singer, translated and edited the Authorized Daily Prayer Book, an edition of the siddur (Jewish prayer book) that is still commonly used in Orthodox synagogues throughout the British Commonwealth.
4. He pulled a Post–it–size prayer book from his pocket.
5. At church that Sunday night, Leon Harvill did not open the prayer book.