Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s last royal consort, in her 1547 Lamentations of a Sinner uses the conventions of penitence to cast herself as an appropriately regal leader of xenophobic scripturalism in England. Parr’s own abjection generates her royal and nationalist power to construct the English church and English faith. Like other early reformers, Parr chooses (her own) nationalist monarchy as the sacred authority over that of the papacy, with the Englished Bible at the core of that governance of faith. And by endorsing a particularly embodied and material transubstantiation of scripture, Parr, like the Geneva editors after her, makes the Englished Bible the new sacrament of salvation. Her royal English believer and embodied English text suggest a dangerously imperializing theology enabling both the Englishness of faith itself and the centrality of the English monarchy to that faith.