Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
The name of this movement means the owners of prayer, and prayer, said aloud and at length and often through the night, is what the movement was founded on and named for.
Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.
The daily office follows the East Syriac books, and Syriac is the liturgical language.
Prayer is ordinarily free rather than read, and the tradition has resisted set forms in public worship from the seventeenth century onward.
Prayer is led by the kessim, the priests of this community, in Ge'ez, and its forms descend from a Judaism that never received the rabbinic corpus.
Kept in Breslov Hasidism. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
Prayer is treated as the chief exercise of faith, and the Heidelberg Catechism makes it the whole of its third part, on thankfulness.
Kept in Chabad-Lubavitch. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Prayer is understood as the correction of thought rather than as petition to a God who might or might not grant it, and it is the means by which healing is sought.
Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Prayer for the sick, with anointing, is practised in this body.
Kept in the Church of Greece. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Church of Ireland. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Prayer is treated as the chief exercise of faith, and the Heidelberg Catechism makes it the whole of its third part, on thankfulness.
Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The Small Catechism teaches morning and evening prayer, grace at table and the Lord's Prayer as the shape of household devotion.
Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Prayer follows the traditional Hebrew liturgy with abbreviations, and men and women count equally in the quorum in most congregations of this body.
Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.
Prayer at the table is offered by elders of the congregation rather than by the minister, which follows from this body's conviction that ministry is not a separate order.
Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. Prayer is treated as the chief exercise of faith, and the Heidelberg Catechism makes it the whole of its third part, on thankfulness.
Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.
Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.
Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Small Catechism teaches morning and evening prayer, grace at table and the Lord's Prayer as the shape of household devotion.
Kept in the Free Methodist Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
Kept in Hasidic Judaism. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
This movement holds no service of prayer to God. Its gatherings use readings, music and reflection drawn from Jewish history and literature, and the difference is stated rather than concealed.
Prayer is drawn overwhelmingly from the Psalms and from scripture rather than from the rabbinic prayer book, and it is said prostrate.
Prayer and hymn singing shape worship, and this church's brass bands and choirs are among the best known in central Africa.
The Small Catechism teaches morning and evening prayer, grace at table and the Lord's Prayer as the shape of household devotion.
The daily office follows the Syriac books, and Syriac remains the language of the central prayers of the liturgy.
Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Kept in Modern Orthodox Judaism, alongside full engagement with secular study and with the state. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
The Daily Texts, a scripture verse for every day of the year drawn by lot and published annually since the eighteenth century, shape prayer in this church and are used far beyond it.
Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. Prayer is ordinarily free rather than read, and the tradition has resisted set forms in public worship from the seventeenth century onward.
Prayer is made with the two-finger sign of the cross, which was the Russian usage before the reforms and the refusal of which to abandon gave this body its existence.
Prayer follows a fixed daily cycle in each of these churches, the Coptic Agpeya, the Armenian Zhamagirk and the Ethiopian horologion, rather than a single common book.
Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
Prayer in public worship is ordinarily led by the minister and was historically extempore rather than read, on the ground that no form may be imposed.
Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Prayer is ordinarily free rather than read, and the tradition has resisted set forms in public worship from the seventeenth century onward.
Prayer here is silence held in common. Friends gather seated facing one another, with no minister and no order of service, and anyone may speak when moved to.
Prayer is understood as the expression of a civilisation rather than as petition to a God who intervenes, and the liturgy was revised accordingly.
Prayer is offered in the vernacular alongside Hebrew, with organ and choir, and it is not held to be a fixed obligation falling on men alone.
Source The Pittsburgh PlatformCentral Conference of American Rabbis (predecessor gathering)the holders' own account Prayer is treated as the whole fourth part of the Catechism, which sets out vocal prayer, meditation and contemplative prayer as the three expressions of the Christian life of prayer.
Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Prayer follows the Syriac books, in the East Syriac form among the Syro-Malabar and Chaldean Syrian communities and the West Syriac among the Malankara.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Kept in the United Methodist Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
The daily cycle follows the Byzantine books in Ukrainian and Church Slavonic.
Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.
Kept in the Wesleyan Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.
Prayer, with the laying on of hands, is offered for healing and for protection.