Best christian prayer books according to redditors

It's a great idea. When I committed to saying the Rosary every day, it was like a special someone hit the gas pedal on my spiritual and prayer life and I haven't looked back since. There's a great book on the contemplative rosary and Pope John Paul II wrote a great letter on it.

"The Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn by the Spirit of God to “set out into the deep” (duc in altum!) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour, “the way, and the truth and the life” (Jn 14:6), “the goal of human history and the point on which the desires of history and civilization turn”. APOSTOLIC LETTER ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE

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If it works out for you, see if your friend has ever listened to or read The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. He may enjoy it a lot!! It's on YouTube as well.

The Family Advent Wreath for $0.35 is the cheapest thing on my "Cheapest Prime" list.

This has a lot of good prayers, more than those two combined

Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity https://www.amazon.com/dp/154105671X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ysV2DbJBE45SS

1. Weekly confession is must to banish these ideas, past or present. Every time satan brings up something from your past (presuming you haven't confessed it before), confess it. Consistently confessing even sins of the past impedes satans's ability to bring them up and imparts a lot of new grace for healing from the past.
   
   
2. You need THIS little wonderworking gem. In it, are prayers which specifically address just such situations as you describe.
   
   Praying for you!

Assuming based on post history you're looking for 1979 prayerbook resources, I use the settings in the 1982 hymnal for most of MP and EP, and this for chanting psalms.

Also, hidden in the organist edition of the hymnal (but not the pew edition) is plainchant settings for noonday and compline, which is very annoying to me. You can purchase them separately here, but they often go out of stock/the algorithm sends them to unreasonable prices.

edit: if you have more questions I'm happy to answer them :)

> I desperately need community and a place where people understand.

We do need others to keep us balanced and focused on Christ, you are right!

Perhaps staying off social media for a time (so as to not be ingesting all this bad news so much) if you can? Things are terrible. Yes. But remember the goal of the devil is to drive us to despair. That is not the goal of Christ, who said, "in this world you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world."

I would say put that ocd to good use (in an attempt to curb it of course) until you can say some good binding prayers or deliverance prayers over yourself regarding it and say the rosary. If there is something that can be done both productively and repetitively, it is the rosary.

Entrust your heart, your worries to Your Mother. She will cast your cares upon Jesus.

You have my prayers!

OP: I started with the linked material here; it's an excellent resource and served me for at least a year or two.

I recently got the Plainchant Psalter for Christmas and am in love with it.

On the feast of St. Jerome, no less :)

There is no such thing as a "most accurate translation." Learn Latin if you can, but even then you will never fully understand all the connotations and cultural subtext of Sacred Scripture on your own. You can learn Greek (I did for this same reason) but there will still be a language gap from the Aramaic Christ spoke. As English speakers, we are, at best, three languages and 2000 years removed from the language and context of Sacred Scripture.

I don't say this to be discouraging but to emphasize the importance of Biblical inerrancy. God bridges the gap between 21st-century believers and 2000 years of dramatic historical and linguistic change, not human translators.

Translating Latin to English is an art, not a science. Translating Latin to Spanish or Italian is a lot more accurate but still not perfect. Don't waste your time searching for "the most accurate English translation." Such a thing does not exist.

That said, I'd go for a [Latin Vulgate and Douay-Rheims interlinear](https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-Latin-English-Testamenti/dp/1635489792/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Latin+interlinear+bible&qid=1569904281&sr=8-1). It's also a great way to practice Latin (if you want to learn it, that is).

I use Rippergers collection: Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity https://www.amazon.com/dp/154105671X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KzWCDbFG6DAQ8.

Since he's an exorcist he knows where the limit of authority a lay person can use is. You might like to listen to his spiritual warfare videos given your current situation.

Here is the book mentioned in the post above:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/154105671X/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_U\_4rDzDbVQSEYNK

This is the prayer book I use. Its cheap, paper back and pretty decent.

A PCA minister named Patrick Curles did one a while back that was an updated version of the 1946 Book of Common Worship. It included daily and family prayers as well. It's also available on Kindle.

Yes, Catholic Book Publishing Company is the one I'm talking about. To be clear, for the OOR, it has the four-week psalter, which is the basis for the OOR. This is nice, and it will pretty much cover the whole year, but it won't cover the little changes that happen throughout the year (such as when Pss 78, 105, 106 pop up in the high liturgical seasons and other changes during feasts and solemnities -- for those I use iBreviary -- but it's only a few days each year). And the 1st and 2nd readings are only a very small selection that you choose for yourself. If are planning on praying the OOR regularly, you may wish to get to the 4-vol LOTH. But if you plan to dip in every now and then, you can use a combination of CP and an app like iBreviary (or just the app).

It does have chant notation (not in neumes aka square notes, but in standard notation) in it, though the psalms themselves are not pointed for chanting. There is a section called "Music for the Liturgy of the Hours" on pages 1709-1784. There are a few collections of psalm tones (Murray with 8 tones, Jones with 5 tones, Benevot with 8 tones); we use some of the Murray tones for singing Evening Prayer once a month in my parish (once you learn how to point psalms, you can use any psalm tones that you can find online or elsewhere). There is instruction on how to point the psalms for chanting. There are also tones and settings for the invitatory, responsories, canticles, etc, as well as an example of how to put these all together in a complete setting for Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer. Everything is in standard notation, so most musicians will be able to read it.

Most folks don't seem to look past the hymns in CBP's CP, which is where all this stuff is. There's even a section with poetry in it.

It's a good deal. Get the St Joseph Guide to CP and you'll know what pages to turn to every day of the year.

Note, I'm not sure about your level of musicianship. If you are not a musician, don't get hung up on whether or not your breviary has music in it. If you are a musician and want a breviary with tones provided for every psalm and already has psalms pointed, get the Mundelein Psalter. The hymns in it are wonderful. Note that it is in chant notation, not standard.

Don't fret about asking more questions. I'm cool with it, and (as you can maybe tell by now) I love talking about it. ;)

I was looking at this St. Paul version, does this include everything?

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https://www.amazon.com/St-Paul-Daily-Missal-Black/dp/0819872210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=st+paul+daily+missal&qid=1563293420&s=gateway&sr=8-1

If you're really brave, you can try this. http://anglicanhistory.org/liturgy/ritual_notes_1894/

This also has some good info, if you're interested enough in becoming a real liturgy nerd that you want to buy a book.
https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Rubrics-Expanded-Byron-Stuhlman/dp/0898691605

I'm Anglican/Episcopalian but I don't really use the BCP for my daily devotions. I use Phyllis Tickles' Divine Hours series. It's a three volume set but there's also an affordable pocket edition: www.amazon.com/Divine-Hours-Pocket-Phyllis-Tickle/dp/0195316932/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1499351979&sr=8-5&keywords=Phyllis+tickle It's a good starter if you aren't use to doing the daily office. I think it makes a pretty good introduction to the practice. I also use St. Augustine's Prayerbook: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Augustines-Prayer-Book-David/dp/0880283785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499352353&sr=8-1&keywords=st+augustine%27s+prayer+book Unlike the Phyllis Tickle book it doesn't just focus on the daily office but also has other prayers and practices in it. The daily prayer section is pretty easy to use. It's Anglo-Catholic however so the theology is more high church based (there's some Marion devotion).

https://www.amazon.com/Deliverance-Prayers-Fr-Chad-Ripperger/dp/154105671X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EEILYO9DVEII&keywords=deliverance+prayers+for+the+laity&qid=1569077391&sprefix=deliverance+prayer%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-1

I have one similar to this or this. You should be able to find one on Amazon.

Deliverance prayers for the layity.

https://smile.amazon.com/Deliverance-Prayers-Fr-Chad-Ripperger/dp/154105671X?keywords=prayers+for+the+laity&qid=1536799585&sr=8-1&ref=mp_s_a_1_1

If you have a kindle (or kindle app) :http://smile.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Scottish-Liturgy-ebook/dp/B004TQGJQA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396976427&sr=8-2&keywords=book+of+common+prayer is the one I use.

I also have this one on my bookshelves:
http://smile.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Chapel-Edition/dp/0898690609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396976480&sr=8-1&keywords=book+of+common+prayer

Most of these are near identical. If you have a half price books near you, they probably have several copies to look through.

Printed missals are great tools, but I tend to use mine most outside of Mass.

The full daily missals contain not only every official text for every day of the week for years to come (until they revise or add a celebration, which is rare, and would only make the missal you own 99.5% incomplete), but they also contain many devotional items and prayers. They're really fantastic.

The Mass translation itself was recently revised (in 2011), and so that should be around for another 40 years at least.

So bottom line: it may be a hefty price tag, but it'll last you a while.

Now to personal recommendations. I recommend MTF's Daily Roman Missal for the ordinary form (make sure to get the 2011 or later edition!). For the extraordinary form, I recommend the Layman's Missal (though that isn't a daily missal). Which brings me to a secondary option: CBP publishes a Sunday Missal that looks nice, and would work for all Sunday and Holy Day Masses. I don't own that one so I can't really speak much about it, but it should serve an interim need especially if you won't be going to daily Masses very often (or don't need all the texts and devotionals that come with daily missals), and it's certainly cheaper.

Just saw this book on deliverance prayers for the laity by Fr. Rip! A sure must have (he's the exorcist!)

https://www.amazon.com/Deliverance-Prayers-Fr-Chad-Ripperger/dp/154105671X/ref=pd_sim_14_2/147-7963382-9839801?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=154105671X&pd_rd_r=92bdca55-3902-11e9-9f14-0518718f1dc0&pd_rd_w=rDxdw&pd_rd_wg=CFRJg&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=YJZEN9EZJ6Y9HMTCYST8&psc=1&refRID=YJZEN9EZJ6Y9HMTCYST8

Well its the way our culture teaches us. We are taught to learn as much as we can. We are not taught how to use what we know, just acquire as much as you can as fast as you can. Granted there are some institutions out there who do show you how to put what you know into practice.

In a mind driven society, I think our souls and hearts are under nourished. I like to experience God through all of my senses. It helps quiet my mind. I light a candle. Burn incense. Lay in the floor and stare at the ceiling and listen to soft instrumental music. It helps to open me up to more than just whats going on in my head.

So find some tangible ritualistic type stuff to introduce into your prayer life. This book is amazing. It has prayers for everything. I highly recommend it.

Find the virtues in all the mysteries and apply them to your life. It may well have a different meaning but same good purpose for you in the different life stages and moments you recall them. The Contemplative Rosary: With St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Avila may be a book well worth your time. Here's an encyclical on the Rosary of the Virgin Mary as well