Baltimore Book of Prayers

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Published after its better-known sister work, the Baltimore Catechism, the so-called Baltimore Book of Prayers of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore was a comprehensive collection of traditional prayers and devotions in the English language for use by American Catholics. Various matters of spiritual practice given in the Book of Prayers have been superseded by the Second Vatican Council and other Church reforms since the 1950s.

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A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity

Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore

The Prayer Book ordered by the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore having been diligently compiled and examined, is hereby approved. — James Card. Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Apostolic Delegate. Baltimore May 17, 1889.

Imprimatur. Jacobus Card. Gibbons, Archbishop Baltimorensis

• Calendar
• Movable Feasts, Tables of
• Days of Obligation and Devotion
• Christian Doctrine
• Christian Faith and Practice
• Morning Prayers (Office of Prime)
• Evening Prayers (Office of Compline)
• Instructions for Hearing Mass
• Devotions for Mass
• Prayers After Mass
• Serving A Priest at Mass
• Blessing of Water and Asperges
• The Ordinary of the Holy Mass
• The Canon of the Mass
• The Te Deum, etc.
• Occasional Prayers
• Vespers
• Directory
• Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
• Blessing of Children
• Seven Penitential Psalms
• Litany of the Saints
• Devotions for Confession
• Devotions for Communion
• Forty Hours Devotion
• Devotions to Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Way of the Cross
• Seven Words upon the Cross
• Rosary of B. V. M.
• Scapular (with form of Investing)
• Devotions to St. Joseph
• Devotions to St. Therese
• The Sacraments in General
• Holy Baptism
• Reception of Converts
• Confirmation
• Matrimony—The Ceremony
• Churching of Women
• Devotions for the Sick
• The Holy Viaticum
• Extreme Unction
• Visitation of the Sick
• Last Blessing and Plenary Indulgence
• Burial of the Dead, Adults and Children
• Hymns and Sequences
• The Proper of the Mass