The Service of Prayer. I. Preces and Collects . . . . . . 127
Worship-Forms in the Prayer Service . . . . . . . . . . . 128
The Prayer Service Rubrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
A. Preces, 132; B. Collects, 134; C. The other Prayers . . 142
CHAPTER XIV.
The Service of Prayer. II. Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . 146
a. Simple Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Example. Advent setting of Venite . . . . . . . . . . —
b. Compound Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Example. The Easter Anthems in their original form . . —
Praise and Prayer Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Hymns as Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
CHAPTER XV.
The Service of Prayer. III. The Litany . . . . . . . . . 153
Ancient Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Rogation Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Structure of the Litany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
i. Our cry to Christ, 159. ii. Our cry to the Father, 170.
iii. Appeal for help, 171. iv. Pressing anxieties of
the moment, 172. v. Final Commendation of our
prayers to Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Appendix C. Lessons in the Day Hours . . . . . . . . . . 173 Appendix D. Pliny's Letter to Trajan . . . . . . . . . . 174 Appendix E. The addition of Filioque . . . . . . . . . 176 Appendix F. Greek origin of Litanies . . . . . . . . . . 177 Tables of Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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