bidding prayer
- the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
- an intercessory prayer for persons living and dead, said in English churches up to about the middle of the 16th century.
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Origin of bidding prayer
First recorded in 1745–55
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