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A collection of various editions of the Book of Common Prayer, derivatives, and associated liturgical texts. A reference work, [3] The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer was authored by 58 writers and was divided into over 70 essays, with each essay focussed on an aspect of the Book of Common Prayer and the "whole 'Prayer Book family'".
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] was the official primary liturgical book of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from 1928 to 1979. An edition in the same tradition as other versions of the Book of Common Prayer used by the churches within the Anglican Communion and Anglicanism generally, it contains both the forms of the Eucharistic liturgy and the Daily Office, as well as additional ...
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:
The Parson's Handbook is a book by Percy Dearmer, first published in 1899, that was fundamental to the development of liturgy in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion. When he wrote the book, Dearmer was an assistant priest at the Berkeley Chapel in Mayfair.
[8]: 76 [13]: 12 The resulting Jacobean prayer book was only a minor revision, but the conference also approved the development of the Authorized Version of the Bible. [8]: 73 Among the more notable alterations in the Jacobean prayer book was an elongation of the Catechism's sacramental teachings and the introduction of a rubric allowing only a ...
[3]: 242 The Shorter Prayer Book, containing the most popular elements from the 1928 proposal and approved by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1947, came into popular use. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 3 ] : 243 Ultimately, the bishops came to consider the Deposited Book ' s prayers and practices as lawful and formally approved its use in 1958.
Saint Augustine's Prayer Book is an Anglo-Catholic devotional book published for members of the various Anglican churches in the United States and Canada by the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican monastic community.
Only in 1955 did the church set up the Liturgical Commission and ten years later the Church Assembly passed the Prayer Book (Alternative and Other Services) Measure 1965. A series of books followed, most becoming authorised for use in 1966 or 1967: the Series 1 (formally "Alternative Services Series 1") communion book scarcely differed from the 1928 book (as was the case with its wedding service).