Prayers, Ancient and Modern: Selected and Arranged for Daily Reading (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Great Souls at Prayer: Fourteen Centuries of Prayer, Praise and Aspiration, From St. Augustine to Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson

Fourteen centuries of prayer, aspiration. And praise unite here in one harmony of devotion. A large number of these prayers date from the fifth and sixth centuries, taken from the Leonine, Gela sian, and Gregorian Sacramentaries, from which the collects in the Book of Com mon Prayer are in great measure derived.

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