Are prayers literature?

More /lit/ related then half the stuff posted here

>>9225340
Is mayonnaise literature?

only if you learn to understand the Holy Spirit which communicates in groans

>reading translations

>>9225499
Is literature mayonnaise?
>>9225340
Oure sweete lord God of hevene, that no man wole perisse, but wole that we comen alle to the knoweleche of hym, and to the blisful lif that is perdurable, amonesteth us by the prophete Jeremie, that seith in thys wyse: "stondeth upon the weyes, and seeth and axeth of olde pathes (that is to seyn, of olde sentences) which is the goode wey. And walketh in that wey, and ye shal fynde refresshynge for youre soules, etc." Manye been the weyes espirituels that leden fold to oure lord Jhesu Crist, and to the regne of glorie. Of whiche weyes, ther is a ful noble wey and ful covenable, which may nat fayle to man ne to womman that thurgh synne hath mysgoon fro the righte wey of Jerusalem celestial; and this wey is cleped penitence, of which man sholde gladly herknen and enquere with his herte, to wyten what is penitence, and whennes it is cleped penitence, and in how manye maners been the acciouns or werkynges of penitence, and how manye speces ther been of penitence, and whiche thynges apertenen and bihoven to penitence, and whiche thynges destourben penitence.

>>9225546

I didn't know the Holy Spirit groaned in Greek.

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>>9225499

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St Augustine's sure are

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>>9225340
Go bach to your board, you piss of shit, >>>/his/

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>>9226376

>you piss of shit

what did he mean by this?

>>9225546
>focusing on polyglotism instead of deeply understanding one language.

enjoy your sub-1000 word vocabulary, you mong.

>>9226399
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7BmZlMRy-c

>>9226461
fuck that, this one is better quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9CFmFyljQ

>>9226089
True patrician.

>>9225559
Is this a Hawaiian pidgin prayer?

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>>9225340
How is liturgy not literature?

They have the same root word, even

>>9225340
>Are prayers literature?
Only if they're written.

>>9225340
Sure, after all, St. John of the Cross wrote poetry that was all a continuous prayer.

>>9225340

It's pretty much what the Psalms are, so yeah, it depends.