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The English Language Liturgical Consultation (ELLC) is a group of national associations of ecumenical liturgists in the English-speaking world.Their work has been concerned with developing and promoting common liturgical texts in English and sharing a common lectionary wherever possible.
In the BaháΚΌí Faith, prostrations are performed as a part of one of the alternatives of obligatory prayer (the "Long" one) [2] and in the case of traveling, a prostration is performed in place of each missed obligatory prayer in addition to saying "Glorified be God, the Lord of Might and Majesty, of Grace and Bounty".
Since Thomas Cranmer introduced the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, there have been many editions of the Book of Common Prayer published in more than 200 languages. The successive editions of the Church of England's prayer books iterated on its contents, which by the 1662 prayer book featured the Holy Communion office, Daily Office, lectionaries, rites for confirmation, several forms of ...
The Unitarian revisions influenced other prayer book revision efforts, including John Wesley's The Sunday Service of the Methodists and the American Episcopal Church's first attempted prayer book revision. The King's Chapel prayer book, currently in its ninth edition as first published in 1986, remains that congregation's standard liturgical text.
Although the form of the covenant prayer and service have been simplified, important elements of them are still retained from Wesley's Directions. They include many of the words both of the bidding that traditionally precedes the prayer, and the prayer itself. The bidding traditionally includes phrasing such as:
While the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer has historically been interpreted by liturgiologists as a revision of the English prayer book with Laudian or "Canterburian" deviations—"here, the Laudian programme is in full flower," according to G. J. Cuming—Donaldson and Spinks also found it to contain concessions for its Scottish intended ...
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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. The World English Bible translates the passage as: