Collections of Prayers
I love praying through written prayers. Of course, I have a stable diet of the C of E 'Daily Prayer' plus a few other liturgies, but I mean to refer to collections of just prayers. One of my favourites is by Karl Rahner, Gebete des Lebens. Barth's Gebete is another.
Can you recommend me any others? I would love to expand my library in this direction.
posted by Chris Tilling @ 10:24 PM
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I have used the Oxford Book of Prayers extensively for Compline - some astonishing ones in that book. I note that following each psalm in the 5 volume commentary by Neale and Littledale (1876 edition I think) there are collects from the fathers forward related to the psalm content - some quite good.
Chris,
probably very different than what you're used to and a bit unorthodox but very, very honest (and my favorite written prayer book ever!!!!!): Prayers Plainly Spoken by Stanley Hauerwas. If you get it, please let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I love Jüngel's trinitarian prayers.
The Prayers of St. Anselm are beautiful.
I also enjoy a book called Lesser Feasts and Fasts from the Episcopalian church.
I like it old school though. Just like my worship music.
Brueggemann and Hauerwas have both published nice collections of prayers.
Do you know the collection "My God My Glory" by Eric Milner White, who was Dean of York last century.
Even when it is no book of written prayers I like the "Gebet für die Welt" or "Operation World" as a guide for prayers from Patrick Johnstone.
It gives Knowledge and background for specific prayers.
Anything from the Iona Community - try the Wee Worship Book for starters. I regularly use their communion service in church.
If you want a different style again, try some of the Celtic stuff from the Northumbria Community - their Celtic Daily Prayer is a big resource, with all sorts of stuff in it. It has quite a different feel to most of the mainstream stuff. Worth a try.
I loved those Trinitarian prayers Byron. Just what I need to read, pray and do at the moment. Be absorbed into the Trinity
Beautiful!
This is all just what I was asking for. Thank you thank you thank you all. Brilliant. Now I'm really excited.
Craig - yeah, a friend put me on to them a while ago. We've been using some of them at church too (and one of our catechists has the Brueggemann collection, which he likes to dip into occasionally as well).
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