Prayerbook Resources

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Unless otherwise noted prayerbooks are either fully English or Provide an English Translation.

Non-Catholic Books with an asterisk * next to them are to qualify that the books contain some materials which may be problematic from a Catholic Perspective and discernment is needed in approaching them.

Daily Office Resources:

Pray the Daily Office:

North American Edition:

Commonwealth Edition:

Suggested Resources for a Non-Scriptural Reading after the 3rd Collect:

Other Ordinariate Prayerbooks and Prayer Materials

  • Morning and Evening Prayer and The 1928 Prayer Book Psalter: Concise Edition (Missing Collects of the Church year and Lectionary Table; contains the other materials needed for Mattins and Evensong according to the NAE): Amazon

  • Daily Readings for Morning and Evening Prayer: Divine Worship North American Edition - RSV-CE: Amazon

  • St. Gregory Prayerbook: Amazon

  • 1928 Coverdale Psalter (Divine Name removed to comply with Catholic Liturgical Principles): PDF

  • Divine Worship Daily Office NAE Minor Hours Booklet with Prime from the CE: Booklet

  • DWDO NAE Rubrics: PDF

  • DWDO CE Rubrics: PDF

  • Table of Contents for Commons DWDO NAE insert: PDF

Historic Guidelines for Mattins and Evensong:

  • * Ritual Notes (section on how to do Mattins and Evensong): PDF

  • * The Parson’s Handbook (section on how to do Mattins and Evensong): PDF

Other Books

Anglican Prayerbooks

Scriptural BCP (website which shows all of the scripture citations for scriptures the BCP draws from): Online

Office Books

  • The English Office (An Anglo-catholic version of the 1662 Mattins and Evensong with enrichments): Amazon

  • *St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter (Includes everything necessary except lectionary table and collects of the Church Year. Due to it being published by Western Rite Orthodox the Filioque is footnoted on the Athanasian Creed): Lancelot Andrewes Press

  • The Anglican Breviary (A translation of the Roman breviary into Prayerbook English which uses the BCP Collects, the Coverdale Psalms, and KJV): https://www.anglicanbreviary.net/

  • The Monastic Diurnal: Lancelot Andrewes Press

  • The Monastic Diurnal Noted: Lancelot Andrewes Press

  • Monastic Breviary Matins: Lancelot Andrewes Press

  • The Anglican Office Book: St. Andrew’s Store

  • Breviary Offices, from Lauds to Compline Inclusive Translated and Arranged from the Sarum Book and Supplemented from Gallican and Monastic Uses. Printed for the Society of S. Margaret, Boston, U.S.: PDF

  • Mattins translated and Arranged from the Sarum Book and Supplemented from Gallican and Monastic Uses. Printed for the Society of S. Margaret, Boston, U.S. : PDF

Little Office

Minor Hours + Manual of Prayers

  • * Private Devotions of John Cosin: PDF

  • * Private Devotions of William Laud: PDF

  • * The priest's prayer book: Containing Private Prayers and Intercessions: PDF

  • * The Priest's prayer book : with a brief pontifical: PDF

  • * The Priest’s Book of Private Devotions: Online

Manual of Prayers

  • * The True Church of England-man's companion in the closet: PDF

  • *St. Augustine Prayerbook APA Edition: Anglican Parishes Association

  • *Balm for the Weary and the Wounded Manual of Devotions (Manual of Devotions Compiled by Southern Episcopalian Chaplain during the American Civil War): PDF

  • *The Confederate Soldiers' Pocket Manual of Devotions (Manual of Devotions Compiled by Southern Episcopalian Chaplain during the American Civil War): PDF | BOOK

  • *Selections from the Book of Common Prayer (Manual of Devotions Compiled For Union Soldiers During the American Civil War): PDF

  • *Soldier's Prayer Book (Manual of Devotions Compiled For Union Soldiers During the American Civil War): PDF

  • *Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths of Bath for cure: PDF

  • *A manual of prayers for the use of the scholars of Winchester College: PDF

  • *Family prayer for busy people by John Ker: PDF

  • *Anglican Prayers for Busy People by John Ker: Amazon

  • * Prayers at Mass, with the Order of Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament and Other Eucharistic Devotions for American Catholics: PDF

Sarum Prayerbooks

Office Book

  • The Psalter, or, Seven ordinary hours of prayer, according to the use of the illustrious & excellent church of Sarum: PDF

Little Office + Manual of Prayers

  • The Encheiridion, Or Daily Hours of Private Devotion, According to Sarum Use, Tr. and Arranged by a Layman of the English Church [J.D. Chambers]. PDF

  • The English Primers 1529-1545 (Lists prayerbooks): PDF

  • The Prymer or Lay Folks' Prayer Book 1895: PDF

Roman Catholic Prayerbooks

Office Books

Little Office

  • Little Office of Baltimore: Tan Books

  • Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  • My Daily Psalms Book (Pocket Psalter which lays out the psalms and Canticles of the Roman Breviary) Amazon

  • The primer : or, Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1780: PDF

Manual of Prayers

  • Handbook of Prayers

  • The Garden Of The Soul, Or, A Manual Of Spiritual Exercises And Instructions For Christians by Bishop Challoner: PDF

  • The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety by William Gahan: Ebook

  • A Manual of prayers : for the use of the Catholic laity : prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore : PDF | Tan Books

  • Preces Gertrudianae : Prayers of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of the Order of St. Benedict: PDF

  • St. Vincent's Manual : Containing A Selection Of Prayers And Devotional Exercises: PDF

  • Prayer-book for religious: a complete manual of prayers and devotions for the use of the members of all religious communities: PDF

  • Fulton Sheen’s Wartime Prayer Book: Sophia Institute

Other

  • Roman Martyrology

  • The Raccolta or Collection of Indulgenced Prayers & Good Works 1910: PDF

Eastern Orthodox Prayerbooks

  • *A Psalter for Prayer: Pocket Edition (Conforms Coverdale Psalms to the Septuagint and lays them out for the Kathisma Prayers): Amazon

Western Rite Orthodox Prayerbooks

Eastern Catholic Prayerbooks

  • The Prayers of the Holy Psalter (A Melkite Prayerbook which can be printed off and stapled; it provides the Kathisma Prayers and the Masoretic and LXX/Vuglate Numbering to use with a Bible): Online