Ordinariates established by Pope Benedict XVI - St. Gregorys Prayer Book

A Primer of Catholic Devotions
from the English Patrimony

St. Gregorys Prayer Book is a collaborative venture of:
The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
The Anglicanorum coetibus Society

General Editor: Clinton A. Brand, KSG

IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO

Nihil obstat: Very Rev. Timothy Perkins

Imprimatur: Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes, STD
Bishop of the Ordinarite of the Chair of Saint Peter

Cover design and typographical layout by Victoria Delgado

Preface 2019 The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter,
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham,
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
Published in 2019 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-62164-270-1 (PB)
ISBN 978-1-64229-072-1 (EB)
Library of Congress Control Number 2018967008
Printed in Italy

Acknowledgements

Excerpts from Divine Worship: The Missal & Occasional Services reproduced by kind permission of the three Ordinariates. Novena in Honour of Our Lady of Walsingham reproduced by kind permission of the Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, Walsingham, Englands Nazareth www.walsingham.org.uk. Walsingham Chaplet of the Five Wounds reproduced by kind permission of Msgr. Peter Wilkinson and the General Editor. Litany of Our Lady of the Southern Cross reproduced by kind permission from Fr. Ramsay Williams. Novena of Our Lady of the Southern Cross reproduced by kind permission of Fr. Stephen Hill.

Texts from the Books of Common Prayer (England 1662, 1928; United States 1928, 1979; Scotland 1929; South Africa 1954; and Canada 1962) and other texts not mentioned above are in the public domain.

All other texts composed or newly arranged specifically for this edition are reproduced by the kind permission of the General Editor.

Remember, Christian Soul

that thou hast this day, and every day of thy life :

God to glorify,
Jesus to imitate,
The Blessed Virgin
and the Saints to venerate,
The Angels to invoke,
A soul to save,
A body to mortify,
Sins to expiate,
Virtues to acquire,
Hell to avoid,
Heaven to gain,
Eternity to prepare for,
Time to profit by,
Neighbours to edify,
The world to despise,
Devils to combat,
Passions to subdue,
Death perhaps to suffer,
And Judgement to undergo.

G OD has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my missionI never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in hisif, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

~ Blessed John Henry Newman

Since the fourteenth century, the faith and piety of the Christian faithful in the English-speaking world has been nourished by the tradition of primers, books of devotional prayers and texts meant to cultivate a habit of regular prayer that balances Mass, the Divine Office, and personal prayer. These primers were common before the Reformation and saw a resurgence with vernacular English devotional books from the Marian restoration. The tradition is further developed by later Anglican books of private prayer from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, up to and including devotionals that came to flower with the Catholic revival in Anglicanism during the twentieth century. In many ways, these private prayer books served the cause of ecclesial unity in that they recovered for Anglicans many treasures of Catholic prayer lost or neglected since the Reformation, supplementing the more constrained liturgical spirituality of the Books of Common Prayer. It is in this venerable tradition that this new book of devotions can be understood, hearkening back to and honouring this long and varied tradition of English prayer. St. Gregorys Prayer Book expresses some of the noble spiritual patrimony of the Ordinariates established under the auspices of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus , and is also a treasure now to be shared with the whole Church.

This devotional is named for Pope St. Gregory the Great, an apt namesake on account of his role, with St. Augustine of Canterbury, as an Apostle to the English. Indeed, St. Gregory exercised a formative influence in shaping the ecclesiastical, liturgical, and spiritual life of Western Christendom. His patronage of this spiritual treasury also alludes to the re-patriation of Anglican devotional patrimonyhaving its origins in, and now regrafted on, the Roman rootstalkin full communion with the See of Peter and the line of St. Gregorys successors.

As the devotional life of the Church departs from and returns to the great prayer of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the prayers contained in this volume are meant to inform and augment Catholic liturgical life and worship. Thus, this book contains devotions and prayers before and after Mass, a Peoples Order of Mass according to Divine Worship: The Missal , forms for prayer in the morning and the evening, prayers for the Church Year, and devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints. Meant for individuals and families, young and old, men and women in diverse seasons and stations of life, the book provides the staples of the Catholic devotional repertory, while retrieving prayers from the English tradition that are not well known or readily available in print.

It is our sincere hope that this St. Gregorys Prayer Book will nourish the prayer and devotion of all those who are very members incorporate in the mystical body of Christ, to the glory of God and the flourishing of the Church.

Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes

Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Rev. Msgr. Harry Entwistle

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

Rev. Msgr. Keith Newton

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

November 1, 2017

Solemnity of All Saints

Ten Commandments ( Divine Worship: The Missal ; cf. Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-21)

The Decalogue

God spake these words, and said:

I. I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods but me. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .

II. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .

III. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .

IV. Honour thy father and thy mother.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .

V. Thou shalt do no murder.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .

VI. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law .