Modernizacja konwencji gatunkowych we współczesnym modlitewniku

The article is concerned with the unusual prayer book entitled ‘’A text message to God, a prayer book for people who have little time”. The author treats it as a genre in a collection form, because it has a title, an introduction and a specific composition. This prayer book consists of blocks of statements which form micro-collections, composed on the principle of analogy. It differs from traditional prayer books that are collections of various genres. The new form does not mean a departure from traditional religious style principles. The author of the prayer book cites the Bible, uses archaisms (syntactic and lexical ones), set metaphors and specialized lexis. The prayer book implements the principle of combining tradition and modernity in contemporary Polish religious discourse in the original way