THE LITTLE BOOK OF PRAYERS

Gathered from holy books and prayer books, from songs and spirituals, spoken traditions and poets, it is an unexpectedly approachabl e collection of common and uncommon prayers from around the world. The entries, one per page or spread, are chosen for their depth o f feeling, beauty of expression, spiritual intensity, and sense of the universal. The book is organized into broad categories of pra ise, entreaty, contemplation, mourning, and grace/ and two indexesone by authorship, and the other by topicmake it immediately acc essible.