Preces
Traditional prayer in Christianity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Christian liturgical worship, Preces (Latin for 'prayers'; /ˈpriːsiːz/ PREE-seez), also known in Anglican prayer as the Suffrages or Responses,[1] describe a series[2] of short petitions said or sung as versicles and responses by the officiant and congregation respectively. Versicle-and-response is one of the oldest forms of prayer in Christianity, with its roots in Hebrew prayer during the time of the Temple in Jerusalem.[3] In many prayer books the versicles and responses comprising the Preces are denoted by special glyphs:[4]
- Versicle: ℣, a letter V crossed by an oblique line — Unicode 2123, HTML entity
℣
- Response: ℟, a letter R crossed by an oblique line — Unicode 211F, HTML entity
℟