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'We shew that our charity extends whither our alms cannot reach': on the Prayer for the Church Militant

Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth. In his A Critical and Practical Elucidation of the Book of Common Prayer, Volume II (1801), John Shepherd hints at a relationship between the offertory and the distinctly Reformed introduction to the Prayer for the Church Militant. The stuff of the offertory - alms, bread, wine - is for the living. So too our prayers are for "Christ's Church militant here in earth": After the offertory is said, and the oblations of bread and wine, with the alms for the poor are placed upon the table, the minister addresses this exhortation to the people: 'Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth'. The latter part of this sentence is wanting in Edward's first book. The words 'militant here in earth', which were designed expressly to exclude prayer for the dead, were inserted in the second book, in which that part of this prayer which contained intercessio

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