Suter, John Wallace
[…] Prayer Book, and from 1932 until 1942, he was the fifth Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. He published several books on liturgy with the Rev. Dr. Charles Morris Addison, including […]
The ‘gift of God’
[…] a member of the community to read aloud during the meals. In addition to a book about the writer Flannery O’Connor, and another about the present situation in the Middle […]
Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music offers statement concerning inconsistencies in Holy Week liturgies
[…] statement concerning inconsistencies between the Revised Common Lectionary and the Holy Week Liturgies of the Book of Common Prayer. The statement was prepared during the SCLM meeting in March 2011 in Atlanta, GA. […]
Expanding the Apostolic Imagination
[…] contact: Neva Rae Fox Public Affairs Officer The Episcopal Church publicaffairs@episcopalchurch.org 212-716-6080 Mobile: 917-478-5659 Book of Common Prayer p 308 (prayer after baptism). Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. Bear & Co; 2002 […]
After Eight Days, Holy Name Day – 2019
[…] particularly important, for it names his mission on earth: to save God’s people. The 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which is still the authorized version in common use in our Episcopal churches today, […]
Today We Celebrate…, St. Mary the Virgin – 1996
[…] left behind as their monuments. Some have left large and important religious orders, others important books and teachings. Still others a good and wholesome influence, others great charitable works and […]
A People without Boundaries, Proper 5 (C) – 2013
[…] our action. We too are called to be healers. The mission of the church, our Book of Common Prayer says, “ is to restore all people to unity with God and each other […]
Executive Council D020 Task Force releases SCCC report
[…] understands the Scriptures and understands the Divine (in ways beyond the descriptions of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer). Arguably, Provincial conformity to this promise within the Covenant may proscribe or limit any […]
Food That Endures, Proper 13 (B) – 2012
[…] filling this void. The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer as found in the Book of Common Prayer are a wonderfully enriching daily devotion. When praying in this way, together with the […]
Finding A Way Out of the Wilderness, Lent 1 (A) – 2002
[…] of opportunity toward our finding a way out of the wilderness. In the Old Testament Book of Genesis, we witness how temptation toward evil led Adam and Eve to an […]
The Baptism of Our Lord, Epiphany 1 (A) – 2017
[…] the early church. Let’s start by noting that John did not invent baptism. In the book of Leviticus, God instructed the people of Israel to cleanse themselves from impurities, especially […]
Wisdom and Grace, Proper 15 (B) – 2012
[…] by the devil; and he is not compromised. The prayer after Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer says that when we are baptized we enter into new life and are anointed […]
We Hear Them Telling…, Day of Pentecost (A) – 1996
[…] hit us in the church. We were used to, and loved the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James’ Version of the Bible. Because we are used to the […]
Leave Her Alone. She Is Telling the Truth., Monday in Holy Week – 2018
[…] nature,” we are reminded of our mortality by the ashes imposed on our foreheads ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 265). We have been walking on this spiritual Lenten journey for more than […]
Pillars of understanding
[…] who recite the Daily Office, but how many (except monastics) strive to follow the prayer book pattern of four offices a day? Morning Prayer, Noonday Office, Evening Prayer and Compline […]
Bible Study: Easter 4 (B) – 2015
[…] I cannot think of a better-known psalm, one that is recounted by heart. In the Book of Common Prayer we have the opportunity to recite this psalm in the Daily Devotion (p. 143), […]
A Catholic Church for a Global World
[…] of Western Massachusetts, a former Young Adult Service Corps missionary, and the author of two books about mission and the world church: Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of […]
Prescription Drugs: Far too Costly
[…] being renewed, she may bless your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” – Book of Common Prayer, pg. 458 Prescription drugs are a miracle of modern medicine. We can treat and […]
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at St. Pauls Cathedral, London:
[…] is. The indignities came later. One of the eucharistic prayers in the Episcopal Church”s prayer book says that we have been created worthy to stand in God”s presence. When we […]
Christ’s Own for Ever, Epiphany 1 (B) – 2018
[…] include opera, fine dining, and boating. Sermon-English-Epiphany-1B-2018Download From the Thanksgiving over the Water in The Book of Common Prayer . Daniel V. Stevick, Baptismal Moments; Baptismal Meanings (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1987), […]