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Title: Prayer Book of the Early Christians / Translated and Edited by John A. McGuckin
Date: ⓒ 2011 First Printing
Publisher Brewster MA (U.S.A.): ⓒ Paraclete Press.
Contents: 30 Psalms, NT–Cantica. • 2) Ritual Offices of Prayer for the Whole Day• The Office of the Hours • Rituals and Services of Prayer for Different Occasions • Prayers of the Ancient Saints • Prayer of the Heart • Notes • List of Original Sources.
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Location: Collection Bibelarchiv–Birnbaum (bibelpedia.com). Karlsruhe, Baden. Germany
Comments: The Psalm texts are the author´s own emendations of the Grail Psalter (England), ⓒ 1963, 1986 The Grail. Scriptures, other than the Psalms, are the author´s own paraphrases using the Revised Standard Version of the Bible or the original Greek.
Hardcover octavo, adhesive binding, XV, 199 & (8) pp. Psalms texts in single column, no versification, headings not translated.
30 Psalms are translated, numbered after the LXX: 3 • 5 • 10 • 16 • 19 • 20 • 24 • 32 • 33 • 37 • 46 • 50 • 62 • 66 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 85 • 87 • 89 • 90 • 96 • 99 • 100 • 102 • 103 • 115 • 120 • 120 • 142.
Furthermore texts from the New Testament: Matth 8:1–17 • 28:16–20 • Luke 1 (Magnificat) • 19:1–10 • John 16:5–22 • 17:1–13 • 1 Thess 4:13–18.
Contents: 1) A Guide and Introduction for the Use of this Book of Prayer • Your Basic Prayer Kit • A Note to the Use of Psalms • The Art of Prayer
2) Ritual Offices of Prayer: Vespers • Compline • Matins • The Office of the First Hour • The Office of the Third Hour.
3) Rituals and Services of Prayer for Different Occasions • 4) Prayers of the Ancient Saints • The Jesus Prayer.
4) Notes • List of Original Sources.
The Introduction, dated "Feast of St. Basil the Great, New York, January 1, 2011, reveals details about the author:
»This book has been compiled mainly for the use of ordinary Christians in domestic circumstances. It is heavily based upon the ritual books of the Eastern Orthodox Church, to which I myself belong (Priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church), but represents also the prayers of many worlwide Christians from ancient times.«
Biogramm: John Anthony McGuckin (* Wallsend/ Tyne and Wear, England (U.K.) June 21, 1952) is an Orthodox Christian church historian, priest and poet according to his curriculum vitae. http://orthodoxwiki.org/John_Anthony_McGuckin