This Page is the permanent page for the latest edition of my (free) Book of Prayers in Common (click on this link to the left for the pdf version).epub versionmobi version Regulars here know that I have been working on this project for a dozen or so years – week by week, providing collects/opening prayers with history
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I am absolutely delighted to launch the first edition of my Book of Prayers in Common. If you are a regular at this Liturgy website you will have seen this being developed step by step. If you are one of the people who has helped with that preparation of this book – thank you. You
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You can download the Book of Prayers in Common by clicking the link: Book of Prayers in Common PDF You can also download it as an .epub file (This is for iPad and other mobile devices. I am not as happy yet with this – if you have the option, I would use the PDF
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God of wisdom and insight,
you enlighten the eyes of our heart,
help us to see what is eternally good and true,
and, having glimpsed them,
may we always strive to grow in them
until we come to the joys of heaven;
we ask this through Jesus the Light of the World,
who is alive with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
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NZ Prayer Book Case Study
The history and various different developments of a collect for Sunday. And the discovery that the 2020 NZ Prayer Book was retyped.
Love NZ Prayer Book Case Study
Four principles of Cranmer very applicable today.
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The idea that the Prayer Book is not a “book” but a “collection” of various optional rites which will be primarily online, and function as a sort of “buffet” to use seems to be a seismic change in understanding of the BCP tradition.
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You and I might both use the words “common prayer” and mean something significantly different by that.
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The 2020 Prayer Book adds to conflicting options, destroying common prayer and leading to missing important celebrations.
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A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearo 2020 defies what our General Synod decided.
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