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Prayer meetings

Here are entered works on midweek services of public worship consisting primarily of prayers and testimonies of faith. Works on informal groups gathering for prayer in homes or church facilities are entered under Prayer groups.

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• Public worship

• Prayer meetings -- History

• Prayer services

• The Prayer-Meeting, and Its History, by J. B. Johnston (page images at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Sociology of the Church: Essays in Reconstruction (Tyler, TX: Geneva Ministries, c1986), by James B. Jordan (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Mosaic Tabernacle, in its Arrangement and Worship, as the Symbol of the Christian Church (New York: J. Moffet, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Interpretation of Friends Worship (Philadelphia: Committee on Religious Education of Friends General Conference, c1947), by Jean Toomer (Gutenberg text)

• Die Liturgie als Mysterienfeier (Ecclesia Orans v9, in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder und Co., 1923), by Odo Casel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described (second edition, new impression; London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1920), by Adrian Fortescue, contrib. by Cardinal Bourne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium), Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, on December 4, 1963, by Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) (HTML at the Vatican)
• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Holy Week Book, Compiled by Authority From the Roman Missal and Breviary, As Reformed by Order of Pope Pius X (pointed edition, with Mass texts in Latin and English; London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, ca. 1913), by Catholic Church, contrib. by Adrian Fortescue
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some page corners obscured
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only and some page corners obscured
• Liturgica Historica: Papers on the Liturgy and Religious Life of the Western Church (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1918), by Edmund Bishop
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church (fifteenth edition, c1879), by John O'Brien (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Calendar of St. Willibrord, from Ms. Paris Lat. 10837: A Facsimile, With Transcription, Introduction, and Notes (calendar in Latin, commentary in English; Henry Bradshaw Society publication series v55; London: Harrison and Sons, 1918), ed. by H. A. Wilson, contrib. by Saint Willibrord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Officia Propria Ditionis Columbianae Juxta Kalendarium a S.R.C. Revisum et Adprobatum Die 6 Februarii 1914 (4 parts in 1 volume, in Latin; Turin: P. Marietti, 1914), by Catholic Church
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Saint Edmund Campion Children's Missal (electronic edition of "Know Your Mass"; c1954), by Demetrius Manousos, illust. by Addison Burbank (PDF at ccwatershed.org)

• Worship (partial serial archives)
• Orate Fratres (full serial archives)
• Ephemerides Liturgicae (partial serial archives)

• The Gelasian Sacramentary: Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae (in Latin with English notes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1894), by Catholic Church, ed. by H. A. Wilson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Oficio Parvo de Nuestra Señora la Santisima Virgen Maria, Segun el Breviario Romano (translated into Spanish; Madrid: P. Marin, 1787), by Catholic Church, trans. by Josef Rigual (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Fragments From Latin Medieval Service-Books: With Two Coloured Facsimiles From Medieval Prymers (EETS extra series #90; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1903), ed. by Henry Littlehales
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Spirit of the Liturgy (c1935), by Romano Guardini, trans. by Ada Lane (HTML at EWTN)

• A Textbook of Plainsong and Gregorian Music (London: Vincent Music Co., ca. 1906), by Francis Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Benedictines of Solesmes in the Plainsong Revival (London: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1899), by H. B. Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Das Graduale Junta 1611: Ein Beitrag zur Choral-geschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts (dissertation in German; Fribourg, Switzerland: St. Paulus Druckerei, 1909), by C. H. Leineweber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by George Corbett (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Christopher A. Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Zur Spätmittelalterlichen Choralgeschichte St. Gallens: Der Cod. 546 der St. Galler Stiftsbibliothek (in German; St. Gallen: Buchdruckerei Ostschweiz, 1908), by Otto Marxer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Singing Disciples: Toward Better Church Music, by Hugh C. Benner (PDF at nnu.edu)

• The Hymn (partial serial archives)
• The Diapason (partial serial archives)

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• When the Sun Moves Northward: Being a Treatise on the Six Sacred Months, Containing the Mystic Ritual from the "Story of the Year", and the Teaching Concerning the Resurrecton From "Green Leaves" (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Press, ca. 1923), by Mabel Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgerreise der Aetheria (oder Silvia) von Aquitanien nach Jerusalem und den Heiligen Stätten (vom Jahre 385 n. Chr.) (translated into German, with notes; Essen: G.o D. Baedeker, 1919), by Egeria, ed. by Hermann Richter, contrib. by Gian Francesco Gamurrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Early History of the Liturgy (Cambridge: At the university press, 1913), by J. H. Srawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mass of the Western Rites, by Fernand Cabrol (HTML at EWTN)
• A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Church (fifteenth edition, c1879), by John O'Brien (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.