Common Prayers

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or prayers:

    “It is a very common error of some unscrupulously infidel-minded, selfish, unprincipled, or downright knavish men, to suppose that believing men, or benevolent-hearted men, or good men, do not know enough to be unscrupulously selfish, do not know enough to be unscrupulous knaves.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Lord, have mercy on us.
    [Kyrie, eleison.]”
    —Missal, The. The Ordinary of the Mass.

    Missal is book of prayers and rites used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass during the year.