alternative service book – A Collection of Prayers

Prayer Book Bible Reading Book Of Common Prayer

Almighty God,
to whom all hearts are open,
all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hidden:
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts
by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,
that we may love you completely,
and rightly magnify your holy name;
through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: 11th-century Leofric missal, also attributed to the Gregorian Sacramentary (7th Century)

Source of this version: Modified from 1980 Alternative Service Book via wikipedia.com

Traditional English:

Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name: through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: Book of Common Prayer

Latin:
Deus cui omne cor patet et omnis voluntas loquitur: et quem nullum latet secretum: purifica per infusionem sancti spiritus cogitationes cordis nostri: ut te perfecte diligere et digne laudare mereamur, per dominum nostrum iesum christum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate eiusdem spiritus sancti deus, per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.

This prayer has its own page on wikipedia.

Variant:

…of your Holy Spirit, that every thought and word of ours may begin from you, and in you be perfectly completed, through Christ our Lord. (The Catholic Prayer Book, 1984, 1986)

Sarum version begins:

O God, unto whom all hearts be open…

Matthew 6 (ESV)
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
¹⁰Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹Give us this day our daily bread,
¹²and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
¹³And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Luke 11 (ESV)
Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
³Give us each day our daily bread,
⁴and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory
forever and ever. Amen.

Source: U. S. Book of Common Prayer, 1789

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those
who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and forever. Amen.

Source: Alternative Service Book 1980

Here is the Alternative Service Book 1980 text of the Lord’s Prayer with a melody modified from Braunschweig-Wolfenbuetteler Kirchenordnung, 1543. In some sources this melody is attributed to Johannes Bugenhagen. This is the melody used on the album Praetorius: Mass for Christmas Morning. Here it is without the doxology…

Lord's Prayer (Text, ASB 1980, no dox)

…and with the doxology:

Lord's Prayer (Text, ASB 1980)

Here is the Book of Common Prayer text of the Lord’s Prayer with a melody modified from Braunschweig-Wolfenbuetteler Kirchenordnung, 1543. This is the melody used on the album Praetorius: Mass for Christmas Morning. Here it is without the doxology…

Lord's Prayer (Text, BCP, no dox).png

…and with the doxology:

Lord's Prayer (Text, BCP)

Source of musical setting: Modified from Schatz des liturgischen Chor- und Gemeindegesangs… Goettingen, Bandenhoeck & Ruprecht’s Verlag, 1865.

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