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Summary
- Short prayers follow the parts of a church service: the opening, confession, the Bible reading and sermon, the preacher, the offering, prayers for others and the sending out.
- Paul’s prayers for the Colossians, Ephesians and Philippians (Colossians 1:9–11; Ephesians 3:17–19; Philippians 1:3–6) show what to ask for a church, with a list of needs from pastors and unity to the persecuted church and the local town.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For the Church,” the Collect for Purity and the Prayer of St. Chrysostom), the Orthodox Great Litany in Hapgood’s 1906 translation and the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers.
- Numbers 6:24–26 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 are two scriptural blessings that can close a service.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Numbers 6:24–26; Psalm 119:18; Matthew 9:38; 18:20; John 17:21; Acts 2:42; 12:5; 2 Corinthians 9:7; 13:14; Ephesians 3:17, 19; 4:3; 6:19; Philippians 1:3, 6; Colossians 1:9–11; 1 Timothy 2:2; 1 John 1:9). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, “A Prayer of St. Chrysostom,” p. 20; Prayers and Thanksgivings, “For the Church,” p. 37; The Holy Communion, The Collect, p. 67. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Great Vespers, The Great Litany, p. 5; the Great Litany also appears in Matins and the Divine Liturgy. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, “For the Preservation of Concord in a Congregation,” p. 166. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
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