Good Lord, deliver us
The Great Litany, to be used by many of us this coming Sunday, was the first official vernacular liturgy for the Church of England.
Are we done with the ’79 prayer book?
In 1997, Neil Alexander said that "it is not a perfect book and could stand some general improvement in some fairly critical places. But I believe ..."
Enriching Our Worship: A reading of its Trinitarian theology (3)
I do not wish to imply in any way that the SCLM is trying to introduce a new Trinitarian theology. Rather, I want to suggest that the Trinitarian implications of their revisions take a back seat to the stated goal of removing gendered language for God.
Enriching Our Worship: A reading of its Trinitarian theology (2)
The way I am providing a picture of the revised eucharistic rite as a whole in Enriching Our Worship is to outline a summary of the ways in which it changes and edits the Rite II communion service in the current 1979 BCP.
An appeal for Cranmer’s prayers
When it comes to telling the story of the gospel in the Episcopal Church, I believe there is no clearer and no better way to tell it than with the traditional prayer book liturgy found in Rite 1
A way forward together (3): prayer book
We fear that a revised prayer book would not be written for the church committed to the Bible and the faith of the apostles, but for the church of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, with all particularistic and judgmental edges shorn off.
The orientation of preparation
Fr. Matthew Olver argues that the proper position for the priest at prayer is facing the altar, facing the East.
Rite I Prayers of the People
John Mason Lock writes on the "journey through time and space" in Rite I's intercessions.