Beyond the Two Sacrament Prayers Already Catalogued

This entry addresses the wider Latter Day Saint movement's prayer tradition beyond the two fixed sacrament prayers on the bread and water catalogued individually elsewhere in this atlas, since Latter-day Saint practice, most prominently within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City but including other denominations tracing their origin to Joseph Smith's founding movement, involves extensive personal, family and congregational prayer beyond those two fixed sacramental texts, including specific temple ceremonies whose content is understood within the tradition as sacred and appropriately confined to endowed members in good standing, material this entry does not describe or reproduce here. Ordinary Latter-day Saint personal and public prayer outside the temple and sacrament contexts is generally extemporaneous rather than fixed text, following a recognizable pattern, addressing God the Father, closing in the name of Jesus Christ, but composed spontaneously by the individual praying rather than recited from any set liturgical formula, a structure that gives most Latter-day Saint prayer a considerably less textually fixed character than the two specific sacrament prayers already catalogued.