The Anglican Church of North America has released a “working text” of a modern language Eucharistic liturgy.
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350 years of the Book of Common Prayer
Religion News Service cites this prayer book, along with the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, as formative influences on the English language.
Read moreVigil Postgame II — The Episcopalian Perspective
Following up on Fritz’s post below, the resident Episcopalian shares some thoughts about the Great Vigil.
Read moreCommon Words, Common Song, Common Prayer
Soon enough, English-speaking Roman Catholics will discover the (very) mixed blessing of their new translation. The rest of us stand to lose not only the experience of sharing with them common texts, but also the ongoing outgrowth of musical fruits engendered by those texts.
Read moreLifelong Nourishment by Baroness James
We live in an age imbued with a restless desire for change. It sometimes seems that nothing old, nothing well established, nothing which has evolved through centuries of experience and loving use escapes our urge to diminish, revise or abolish it.
Read moreCollect Interruptions
I’ve become interested lately in the syntax and word order of the Collect (=Opening Prayer =Prayer of the Day).
Read moreLost Holiness?
Making the Holy Eucharist the normative worship service in Episcopal churches has created a challenge of retaining the Eucharist’s profound sense of holiness, says a professor of liturgics at the General Theological Seminary in New York.
Read moreLiving with Diversity, Living in Charity
As an Episcopalian, I live and work in a church that has tried to deal accommodatingly with liturgical change—and has done so for some time. And in spite of all the headline-grabbing difficulties in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Communion, there remains a lot of room for positive, healthy diversity in expression, especially on the level of parish life.
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