What is a book of prayer intentions called?

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Greetings, all!

I have been drawing up a list of all the people I have known and new people I meet who I try to keep in my prayers. I think of this as my “list of people”, but I started wondering if there weren’t a better name for such a list.

I was thinking of the types of books you often find at the front of churches where people can write their prayer intentions. Do these have a special name of some sort?

Thanks all - God bless!
 
After a lot more googling, I think I may have answered my own question.:coffeeread:

A “diptych”, apparently, was a tablet with two sides, joined by some sort of hinge. It was used all over the ancient world for taking notes (the two sides would be covered in wax which could be written on, then smoothed over and re-used) and was eventually used in the early Christian liturgy to write the names of the living, on one side, and the names of the dead, on the other, and was read during the Mass or left on the altar, etc.

Wikipedia and the Catholic Encyclopedia both do a much better job of explaining it.

But if anyone has any other ideas for ways that books or lists like these are called, I would love to hear them!
 
In the Slavic tradition, such a book is called a POMIANIK–“Book of Remembrance.”

They usually also contain the order for Moleben (Prayer service, generally offered for the living) and Panychida (Prayer service for the departed).

Families will send them up to the Priest during the Prokemedia to be commemorated at the Divine Liturgy.
 
I call it “My list of intentions.”

I use it too keep myself sane, or else I’d go crazy wondering if I’d prayed for all those people who ask for prayers. Plus all the ones who don’t actually ask for prayers.
 
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