A Simple Way to Pray

A Simple Way to Pray for Master Peter the Barber (German: Eine einfältige weise zu beten für ein guten freund, 1535) is a short book by Protestant reformer Martin Luther.

Luther gives the Our Father, Ten Commandments and Apostolic Creed, which are the main content of his Small Catechism,^[1] showing by example, how they can be meditated and contemplated. This is done in a manner of four stranded chaplet. The four strands consist of:^[2]

• Instruction
• Thanksgiving
• Confession of sins
• Prayer petitions

Original German text

• WA 38:359-375