Ekklesia.Anglicana: The Prayer Book: Part V

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Prayer Book: Part V

The Collects & the Psalter: The Prayers of the Faithful

In the Collects and the Psalter, the Prayer Book teaches us that our prayers should be in communion with the whole people of God. When we pray from the Prayer Book, we pray with the saints throughout the ages, and we learn to set the Kingdom of God and His Church above our personal desires. We learn that when the Body of Christ goes before him in communal prayer there is little else on earth to compare to it. Our prayers are in this way an expression of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic faith.

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THE NICENE CREED

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who, for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.