Traditional Prayers
Prayer of Humble Access
Composed by Thomas Cranmer for the 1548 Order of Communion, this is the best-known prayer of the English Reformation and is still said before communion in Anglican churches across the world.
We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord,
trusting in our own righteousness,
but in thy manifold and great mercies.
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table.
But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy:
grant us therefore, gracious Lord,
so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ,
and to drink his blood,
that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body,
and our souls washed through his most precious blood,
and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer, Holy Communion
About the prayer
Its imagery comes from the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15.
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