1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition
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Interested in the Book of Common Prayer? The 1662 International Edition from @ivpacademic comes in three formats, and there is a user guide--"How to Use the Book of Common Prayer." And IVP hosts a site with free resources and FAQs.
Do you love the Book of Common Prayer? We have good news for you…. The service book and pew format are here!. This 1662 International Edition replaces prayers specific to England and gently revises obscure words while preserving the prayer book’s own cadence. Order today!
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In 1549, the Book of Common Prayer was published and ordered to be used throughout England. What did Archbishop Cranmer choose as the "launch Sunday"? Whitsunday (aka Pentecost). Why? Because now English-speakers were hearing the word of God and the liturgy in their own language.
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In your heart you know you're ready--
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An announcement: next year @ivpress will publish "How to Use the Book of Common Prayer.” It’s a rookie guide by the editors of the 1662 International Edition. No Anglican knowledge assumed. The goal: unlock the treasures of the 1662 BCP for everyone.
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Archbishop Rowan Williams, with characteristically brilliant insights about how the language of the Book of Common Prayer works:. When it was fashionable to decry Cranmer's liturgical rhetoric as overblown and repetitive, people often held up as typical the echoing sequences of.
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If you're celebrating Thanksgiving Day, here are two prayers from the appendix of additional prayers in the 1662 International Edition:
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Did you know there's a prayer written by Jane Austen in the appendix of additional prayers in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition? It's "For Humility" on p. 690.
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From the appendix of additional prayers:
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The Psalms are the beating heart of Christian devotion. For two millennia they've been central to the prayers and songs of the church.
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Using the Book of Common Prayer has never been easier. Here is a two-page beginner's guide to Evening Prayer:
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Me: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer has everything!.You: Yeah, but it does have a prayer for the end of an election campaign season?.Me:
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An exciting development for the 1662 International Edition: an online version of Morning and Evening Prayer, with the psalms, lessons, and collect of the day inline. All thanks to @Philip_Huff. It's beautiful!!!.
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The pew format, in a bedazzling blue with larger print, is arriving in August--
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You might be in the habit of thinking of January 1 as a day for resolutions for the new year, a day to think about what you’ve failed at and want to do better. But the feast of the Circumcision points us to something grace-filled: Jesus Christ has already kept the law for you.
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1/ If you've never followed holy week in the 1662 BCP, you are in for an incredible experience--so many different angles from which to see our Savior's death for us. The rhythms are different than in Liturgical Renewal Movement texts, so you're in for some surprises.
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Did you know the next three days after Christmas are all red-letter days in the Book of Common Prayer? But what they're about may surprise you. A thread (from How to Use the Book of Common Prayer)--.
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The Service Book for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition--in gorgeous red genuine leather. Coming in early 2024 from @ivpacademic.
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This Sunday's collect is one of the best in the Book of Common Prayer--
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The Book of Common Prayer has a collect said all through Advent. It mentions two comings of Christ—he “came to visit us in great humility,” and he will “come again in his glorious majesty” (p. 49). Humility and judgment are themes in all the Advent epistles and gospels.
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The winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, is a redletter day in the Book of Common Prayer. May the God who was patient with the doubts of St. Thomas, grant to us the greatest gift of all: "to believe in . Jesus Christ."
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Excerpts from "How to Use the Book of Common Prayer":. Epiphany means “manifestation.” This is a very old feast, going back to at least around AD200 in Egypt, and adopted in the West by around AD400.
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Epiphany is neglected. But in "Epiphany: The Season of Glory," @flemingrut writes:. "If the season of Epiphany were to be strongly presented as a central, cohesive narrative during the winter months by clergy, teachers, and other leaders, it would make a powerful impression.
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What if we had a path of daily prayer, services of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion, a Bible reading plan, a catechism, and the beating heart of the church's devotional life--the Psalms--and we put it all in one book that you could carry around? That's the Book of Common Prayer.
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The response to the 1662 International Edition has been incredibly enthusiastic, and two new formats are coming! One is for ministers, and the other is for in the pews. Prices and publication dates still TBD, but these are forthcoming from @ivpacademic.
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The Prayer Book doesn’t spring Christmas on us all of a sudden—we prepare with Advent. And we prepare for Advent with the Sunday next before Advent. Similarly, Lent prepares us for Easter, and the 'Gesimas for Lent. It's psychologically astute: it takes time to orient ourselves.
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Surrounded by snow and beset by a blizzard? The Book of Common Prayer has you covered. From the Benedicite, a song of praise in Morning Prayer:
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The pew format of @ivpacademic's 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition is coming soon! To celebrate, 5 copies are being given away. Retweet by May 20 to enter. The 5 winners will be chosen at random. Good luck!. Preorder now:.
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You can usually tell where the high point in a 1662 service is, because the very next thing will be the Lord's Prayer. Our response to the word of God in Mattins and Evensong, agnus Dei in the Litany, partaking in Communion, baptism + sign of the cross in Baptism, and so on.
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January 1 is a great time to start reading through the Bible. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer offers a time-tested and straightforward way. Most days you read 2 chapters in the morning and 2 in the evening (1 each from the Old and New Testaments). And read the Psalms every month.
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And because you know you want to know, the Service Book for the 1662 IE will be smyth-sewn (so it lies flat when open), with red rubrics on ivory paper, and, count 'em, five ribbons.
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What do Christians read on Trinity Sunday? The answers from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer are strikingly different than what you may be used to--they may surprise you.
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Prayers for peace and grace--good no matter what this day holds.
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W. H. Auden on the shape of the Communion service in the Book of Common Prayer: "Cranmer was liturgically right in altering the Roman order and putting the 'Gloria' after communion. The Roman mass peters out undramatically.".
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Might be a memorable Thanksgiving if you're asked to say grace and you pull out the Book of Common Prayer and read the prayer "For Restoring Public Peace at Home"--
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Did you know that the back of the 1662 International Edition there is a 48-page appendix of additional prayers? One is this fantastic prayer for use in Epiphany; it's taken from a Japanese BCP.
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From the Athanasian Creed, appointed in the 1662 BCP to said every Christmas Day in the morning--
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To avoid having everyone on your Christmas list experience catastrophic disappointment, make sure to get your copy of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition from IVP or from the Prayer Book Society (US). Amazon is sold out!.
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In 2024, read the Bible with the Book of Common Prayer. The daily reading plan in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer takes you through most of the Old Testament once, almost all of the New Testament three times, and the Psalms 12 times.
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The old Book of Common Prayer lectionaries are incredibly rich, and by comparison the late-modern ones sometimes seem thinned out. The readings for today, the Circumcision of Christ, offer an illustration. A thread:.
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"Whose property is always to have mercy"
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An exciting 1662 IE development to announce tomorrow.
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1/ In the 1662 BCP (and other traditional BCPs), the general confession in Morning and Evening Prayer has us describe ourselves as "miserable offenders." Why? Here is C. S. Lewis's answer:."I think the Prayer Book is very seldom talking primarily about our feelings;.
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There is a new additional resource for the 1662 International Edition--"Family Prayer," both morning and evening. These are abbreviated versions of the 1662 daily offices. They're an on-ramp, especially for families with small kids.
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Need wisdom? Ready to ask? Here's a great prayer in the appendix of prayers in the 1662 International Edition!
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Over the last five hundred years, Morning and Evening Prayer have been the most widely and frequently used Christian services in the English language. Unlike the services of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion, Morning and Evening Prayer do not require an ordained minister. They are.
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"Repetition and rhythm in the liturgy are to be fostered. No rule is more frequently violated by the highly educated and well-meaning, who seem to think that never having to repeat anything is a mark of effective communication.". --Aidan Kavanaugh, quoted in "How to Use the BCP".
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Check your BCP and make sure it has prayers for a time of war and for a time of plague. Unfortunately, we still need them.
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Very big news today about the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition.
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New Year's Day is coming. How is January 1 marked in terms of prayer and Bible reading? The classic Book of Common Prayer has an answer, but it may surprise you: the circumcision of Christ.
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Today is the Innocents' Day (also called "The Holy Innocents" in the table of all the feasts on page xxv):
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The gospels of the Sundays after the Epiphany move forward through the life of Christ, and each vignette reveals him to be the Son of God. Epiphany is from a Greek word meaning “appearance, manifestation”—this season reveals the glory of Jesus and its meaning for us.
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You know you need 'em--and you know the whole world does too:
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Most of the language in the prayer book is old. But it isn't complicated like Shakespeare. Instead, the words of the prayer book have an extraordinary simplicity and gravity. They are as straightforward and timeless as "to have and to hold," "till death us do part." And many have.
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O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed .
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The Lindy Effect applied to liturgies: A prayer book that has remained in use for 350 years up to the present, is more likely than any new book to be used 350 years from now.
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"If we can sing hymns written down in advance, without thinking that makes them fake or insincere, why not say prayers written down in advance?". --Bray & Keane, "How to Use the Book of Common Prayer" (forthcoming from @ivpress).
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The 1662 International Edition sure gets around. .
Beautiful church too which had the scent of incense in the air after their patronal festival with the Bishop of Oswestry last night.
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In the Bible, two common metaphors for sin are sickness and a burden (the latter is used in Pilgrim's Progress, too). Each of these metaphors is used at the very center of a prayer of confession in BCP 1662: "And there is no health in us"; "The burden of them is intolerable.".
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Merry Christmas! May God bless us, every one--
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What a beautifully well loved Prayer Book.
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"Morning Prayer nourishes the soul, not with bouts of intensity, but with a steady, calming simplicity. All you need is a prayer book and a Bible. All you have to do is show up, ready to hear God’s word and to walk along a path of prayer that has already been laid out for you.".
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Are you new to the Book of Common Prayer? Here's a two-page guide to Evening Prayer--
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Table of contents for "How to Use the Book of Common Prayer" (by Bray & Keane, forthcoming from @ivpress):. 1. Liturgy?.2. A Ten-Minute History of the Prayer Book.3. The Ascent of Morning and Evening Prayer.4. Further Up and Further In.5. The Ascent Continues: Baptism.
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A two-page beginner's guide to Evening Prayer--
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The splendid simplicity of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer calendar, as each morning and evening you move along chapter by chapter--
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One of the great things about the classic Anglican lectionary (BCP 1662) is that as the new year starts, you're reading Genesis and Matthew in Morning Prayer--with strong first Adam vs. second Adam contrasts.
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For 2023, are you looking to read the Bible more? Consider the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition. You read a *lot* of Scripture. It also teaches you how to read--what the stakes are, how each passage fits into God's plan of salvation, how to respond in faith.
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It's a Wednesday, so it's Litany time:. O God the Father of heaven, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the Father of heaven, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
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