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Supplication
A prayer that seeks God's help. The term is used in the BCP for additional petitions to be inserted into the Great Litany which may follow the Lord's Prayer at the Great Litany or at the end of Morning or Evening Prayer, or be used as a separate devotion, "especially in time of war, or of national anxiety, or of disaster" (BCP, p. 154). These petitions formed a part of the first English litany of 1544, issued by Henry VIII to pray for the success of his army in war with France. They are derived from the petitions in tempore belli in the Manuale Sarum. They ask for protection from our enemies, without avoiding recognition that we ourselves may be responsible for our difficulties. In contemporary eucharistic theology, supplication and thanksgiving are considered the two essential elements of a eucharistic prayer.
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Glossary definitions provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY,(All Rights reserved) from "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians," Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors.
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