prayerbook


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Synonyms for prayerbook

a book containing prayers

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"For really, it's a pity to be left without any education, " the priest was saying, "you're now past your ABC's, you're working on the prayerbook, and, one of these days, you'll go on to the psalter, which is the key to all wisdom.
Asked by the prayerbook Protestant Asuntus, "What say you to these great ruffes?" the godly preacher Theologus replies, "For such things sake the wrath of God com eth." (25) Instead, he praises simple, modest clothes as the outward sign of a true Christian spirit.
For those seeking prayers to bring them closer to faith, "Know God and Love Him" is a prayerbook very much worth considering.
Mishkan Tefilah, the Reform movement's recent prayerbook, also makes use of contemporary English verse--for instance, Adrienne Rich's "Prospective immigrants please note," although the poem's title notably does not appear on the page, presumably because without the title the poem is more universal.
I should add nevertheless that when a Maori was found to have stolen my prayerbook, his chiefs beat him and one of them came 18 leagues [100 km] to return it to me.) (37) Further proof of their admiration for Waikato Maori is that none of the Marists who mentioned cannibalism did so within a Waikato context.
The years between the two copies correspond with Hamilton's attainment of additional titles and positions, including the office of royal commissioner, in which capacity he would encourage King Charles to wage war on his own Scottish subjects for protesting the king's attempt to enforce an English prayerbook in the Scottish church.
(6.) Moshe Lazar reproduces a portion of a women's prayerbook (but from before the Expulsion).
But she asked for the bright twilight blue of a medieval book of hours, a prayerbook, where the arrangements of the gold-starred vault of heaven corresponded to the seasonal labors below.
[3.] Deirdre Le Faye: "At that date marriage with a deceased wife's sister was not illegal but certainly subject to disapproval, as it fell within the prohibitions of the Prayerbook's Table of Kindred & Affinity ..." (264).
The sword and the prayerbook: ideals of authentic Irish manliness.
1); as this celebration was written into the Anglican prayerbook, it was theoretically compulsory for all subjects until 1859 (Sharpe 79).
Perhaps it's because Adams has written her book for a lay or non-Anglican audience, but she does not really attempt to connect the current crisis with much of anything in the church's past, other than (misleadingly) the 1970s fight over ordination of women and prayerbook revision, which split Anglo-Catholics and Anglo-evangelicals into "conservative" and "liberal" camps.
THE ILLUSTRATED Book of Hours or prayerbook (shelf mark 096 R66 HV) in the Rare Books Collection appears to be one of only four extant copies of an edition which, according to the colophon, was printed in Paris in 1508.