Book of common prayer
by Church of England, J. A. Maurault · first published 1537
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Book of rites and prayers for use during worship. Includes Holy Communion and Evening Prayer, weddings (Holy Matrimony), Holy Baptism, funerals, ordinations of deacons, priests and bishops, dedications for churches, prayers for special occasions, and the book of Psalms. Meant for use by the priests with the congregation. The Catechism may also be included.
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The Anglican Book of Common Prayer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗…They’re a part of the tradition, but they need to be contextualized alongside the rest of the tradition to be understood and valued properly, I believe. A better guide to our Eucharistic theology is the Book of Common Prayer. (Really, Books of Common Prayer, since each national church has its own.) Our Eucharistic liturgies tend to emphasize a “high” view of what transpires in the Mass.
on “Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business” ↗There was a recent incident with the first printing of the Book of Common Prayer (the Church of England's official prayer book) after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The BCP includes both references to the current monarch, and to Queen Elizabeth I who ordered it to be compiled.…
on “I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the East of the Grand Duchy” ↗…traditional Christian burial rites have used text about committing the body to the earth, in normal cases, or to the sea, for sailors lost at sea, trusting the earth or sea with that safekeeping. Here's a 1789 Book of Common Prayer rite, which quotes a few of the passages I mentioned: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1789/Burial_1789.ht... In particular, burial at sea involves the following prayer: We therefore commit…
on “In Event of Moon Disaster (1969)” ↗Suggestions: Epictetus' Enchiridion. A cheap, used Dover Editions copy off Ebay is all one needs. Also, if a Christian, morning and evening prayers by candlelight using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
on “Long-term stress erodes memory” ↗…Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter[1] makes retaining many if not the majority of your Anglo-Catholic traditions possible. They permit married priests and use a liturgy that is strongly influenced by the Book of Common Prayer while being in full communion with Rome. In fact, the chaplain for Catholic Answers is an Anglican priest who converted[2]. I find the segments where he’s on quite interesting. Many people are surprised…
on “Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business” ↗Christian prayer is usually non-repetitive. However I know in other religions (Islam say) that prayer is more often strictly formalised. I guess if you used the Book of Common Prayer or something then it would work for Anglicans too. More like meditation, it made me think of Ps119:97+ or the last para of Phillipians; or indeed any of multiple places where the Bible reader is encouraged…
on “How to build discipline and brainwash yourself” ↗…essentially the same as regular copyright, but the copyright is owned by the government. Places without a crown still have governments that have copyright. There some weird things, The King James Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Peter Pan stories are under perpetual unending copyright. (Well Peter Pan will go public domain when the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital ceases to exist)
on “Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes” ↗…part in an isolated community and retreating from the world. Wanting to find something similar I started going to the local Anglican Church and being the studious kind of person I am decided to read the Book of Common Prayer, which includes the Articles of Religion[1] and in particular Articles XIII and XIV: Of Works before Justification & Of Works of Supererogation respectively. My understanding of it is that doing more…
on “Young Chinese are sick of working long hours” ↗Italicize his to signal that it's a variable. (That's how the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer does it, e.g., in baptismal prayers.)
on “HN Office Hours” ↗…Europe. It has probably remained the idiom in English because of Shakespeare (he had a habit of supplying stock phrases to the language at an alarming rate, only matched by the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer).
on “Do You Speak VCili? (like Swahili, but more difficult to learn)” ↗Safire probably just misspoke but it looks like the OG 1549 Book of Common Prayer somehow manages the full cartesian product - there's a commend of body and soul, the commend-and-commit phraseology often used today and a commit of soul. http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1549/Burial_1549.ht...
on “In Event of Moon Disaster (1969)” ↗…Sam Goldwyn, said to a hopeful author, ‘I have read part of your book all the way though.’ When you come across significant parts – the passages that speak to you – it is worth remem- bering the counsel of the Book of Common Prayer: ‘Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.’
on “Start Binge-Reading” ↗…Christian Religion, the summe of the Catechisme. The fourth is the Confession of Faith, the summe of the Compendium. The fifth is the Catechisme for Children, the summe of the Catechisme. The sixth is the Book of Common Prayer, the summe of the whole Church service. The seventh is the Book of Homilies, the summe of the Church doctrine. The eighth is the Geneva Psalter, the summe of the Psalmes. The ninth is the Exposition of…
on “MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?” ↗…ordered a copy and look forward to digging into it. I did find it interesting to note that he “noted down prayers for the recently deceased.” This certainly would not have been a feature of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer which he would have used, and, in fact, many of the English reformers had taken great pains to try to stamp out prayers for the dead. But here is a country parson in what is generally considered one of…
on “Confessions of a Country Parson” ↗