bidding prayer

American  

noun

1. the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.

2. 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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Etymology

Origin of bidding prayer

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

But there is one hint I may take from the bidding prayer.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)

There was a long, long bidding prayer, and a sermon which might have been fitly prefaced by the announcement, “Let us talk to the praise and glory of Charles the First!”

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace