The main purpose of this little volume is for individual and family devotions. However, it is found that prayers like these are read in worship services, in prayer cells, and prayer meetings. Young people’s and women’s groups constantly make use of them. This little book is recommended for all types of worship services and for use in church bulletins. Many other ways will be found to use them. The editor wishes to acknowledge his deep debt of gratitude to the late lamented Dr. J. Minton Batten, professor of church history in Vanderbilt University, and to Miss Clarice Winstead, secretary to the editor, for their invaluable service in compiling this book of prayers. J. Manning Potts Editor, The Upper Room Nashville, Tennessee Contents PAGE SIXTH CENTURY 7 Gregory the Great, Gregorian Sacramentary, Ancient Collects, Columba SEVENTH CENTURY 15 Mozarabic Breviary, Mozarabic Liturgy, Mozarabic Sacramentary EIGHTH CENTURY 31 Venerable Bede, Alcuin, Gallican Collect, A Gallican Sacramentary, Theodore Studita NINTH CENTURY 37 Dionysius of the Syrian Jacobite Church, John Scotus Erigena, Alfred the Great, Old Rheims Manuscript TENTH CENTURY 41 Anonymous, Ethelwold of York, Dunstan of Canterbury ELEVENTH CENTURY 45 Anselm, Sarum Breviary, Roman Breviary TWELFTH CENTURY 61 Bernard of Clairvaux, Dan Jeremy THIRTEENTH CENTURY 65 Francis of Assisi, Richard of Chichester, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura, Richard Rolle FOURTEENTH CENTURY 73 Johannes Tauler, Thomas Bradwardine, Ludolphus of Saxony, Raymond Jordanus, Theologia Germanica FIFTEENTH CENTURY 77 Thomas à Kempis, Michelangelo SIXTH CENTURY PRAYERS For Forgiveness O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of Thy great mercy loose us; for the honour of Jesus Christ, our Mediator, and Advocate. Amen. —Gregory the Great For Easter Sunday Giving