Book of Common Prayer

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The ironic title of “In Our Time” comes from the Book of Common Prayer: “Give peace in our time, O Lord.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Afterward, Mrs. Washington spent an hour at her devotions, reading the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer used in the Episcopal Church.

From Literature

It is also, like “Play It as It Lays” and “A Book of Common Prayer,” a book with a lost or troubled daughter at its heart.

From Los Angeles Times

Bishop Griswold had signaled his more moderate stance as early as 1976, when, as a priest from Pennsylvania, he helped revise the church’s main text, the Book of Common Prayer.

From New York Times

Als, who started reading Didion in the 1970s, remembers being jolted by the first line of her 1977 novel, “A Book of Common Prayer”: “I will be her witness.”

From Washington Post