Editing Prayer of Manasseh (section)

==Liturgical use==

The prayer is chanted during the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox]] Christian and [[Byzantine Catholic]] service of [[Compline#Great Compline|Great Compline]]. It is used in the [[Roman Rite]] as part of the [[Responsory]] after the first reading in the [[Office of Readings]] on the 14th Sunday in [[Ordinary Time]] (along with [[Psalm 51]]). In the Extraordinary Form, in the Roman Rite Breviary; in the corpus of responsories sung with the readings from the books of Kings between Trinity Sunday and August, the seventh cites the Prayer of Manasseh, together with verses of Psalm 51, the penitential Psalm par excellence.<ref>Gregory Dipipo (2017). "[http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/01/actual-apocrypha-in-liturgy.html Actual Apocrypha in the Liturgy]" ''New Liturgical Movement'' (blog).</ref> It is used also as a canticle in the [[Daily Office]] of the [[Book of Common Prayer#1906 - 2000|1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer]] used by the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church in the United States of America]], and as Canticle 52 in Common Worship: Daily Prayer of the [[Church of England]], particularly used during Lent.