1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

J. I. Packer: the Litany in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer "teaches us to know others as our neighbours. Knowing God’s love to us, we love him in return, & when we love God every man becomes our neighbour, to be loved for his sake.

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

By one scholar’s count, 'Up to a billion people have said prayers together, got married, or buried their families and friends, saying its words' (Cummings, The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction, p. 1)."

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

"O God, who hast taught us that by loving thee and our neighbour we keep all thy holy commandments: Grant unto us the spirit of grace and peace, that we may be devoted to thee with our whole heart and united to each other with a pure will, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

Copy/paste works great in the Google ebook version of the 1662 IE. For example: "But what would Saint Augustine have said if he had seen the ceremonies of late days used among us, whereunto the multitude used in his time was not to be compared?" https://t.co/PHnt383UFF

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

Extraordinary lecture by Oliver O'Donovan on the prayers for the monarch in Cranmer's editions of the Book of Common Prayer: https://t.co/xNyd9bGT0L

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

The Trinity 1 epistle begins: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God." The Trinity 1 gospel is the parable of Lazarus and Dives. Trinitytide--on the Christian life--begins with love.

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1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

It's love, which happens through the Holy Spirit. For Evensong on the Tuesday in Whitsun Week, the first lesson is Deuteronomy 30: love God with all your heart. The second lesson is 1 John 4:1-13: God loved you first, so love one another.

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

1/ An extended quote from Alan Jacobs's biography of the Book of Common Prayer on the general confession: This is rhetorically masterful in multiple ways. Alliteration we have, of course—“devices and desires”—and other doublings, as in “erred and strayed.” https://t.co/9KcuHVAwyr

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

Key principles: 1. Better to say a little and enjoy it. 2. Keep the Scriptures in the core. (Why MP/EP > Compline.) 3. To foster memorization, try to keep the interactive units whole (sentences--versicles, salutation--collects). 4. Sing something (Venite, Gloria Patri, Nunc).

1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition

and Jesus standing on the right hand of God” (Acts 7:55, in the gospel for the day). On St. John the Evangelist’s Day, we see Jesus with the eyes of an old man, about 90, living in exile on the island of Patmos, remembering the life of Jesus and seeing the visions of the