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Prayer in the Anglican Tradition

Anglican prayer is shaped above all by the Book of Common Prayer, which provides set forms for both corporate and personal use. The best-known of these is the Daily Office — Morning and Evening Prayer — a pattern of Scripture, psalms, and set prayers historically prayed daily in cathedrals and by many clergy and laity.

Alongside the Daily Office, Anglican worship makes frequent use of collects — short, structured prayers that gather up the themes of a particular Sunday or occasion into a single petition — and set intercessions that move through prayer for the Church, the world, the local community, and the sick or departed.

For someone wanting to begin praying in this tradition, a simple starting point is to pray Morning or Evening Prayer from a Book of Common Prayer a few times a week, using the day's set readings, rather than trying to adopt the full daily pattern all at once.