Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Word to the Church: On Our Theology of Worship
[…] need. In a rubric in the service for Ministration to the Sick (p. 457), The Book of Common Prayer clearly expresses the conviction that even if a person is prevented from physically receiving […]
Extravagant Love, Monday in Holy Week – 2020
[…] us through the year, in addition to the many rites and prayers included in our Book of Common Prayer and its supplements. There are several pastoral offices in our prayer book that are […]
Bible Study: Epiphany 1 (A) – 2017
[…] baptized? Who was there? Do you remember it? Read through the baptismal covenant in the Book of Common Prayer. What parts stand out to you and why? Have you felt the Holy Spirit […]
Transformation, Last Sunday in Epiphany (A) – 2017
[…] to persevere, something bestowed on all of us in our Baptism (see page 308 in The Book of Common Prayer). The same God who presides at the Transfiguration of Jesus and promises us that […]
Suter, John Wallace, Jr.
[…] the Prayer Book. He succeeded his father, John Wallace Suter, as Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. He served in that position from 1942 until 1963. Suter died in Concord, New […]
Names, Holy Name Day – 2018
[…] we have also been given an audacious name. The Catechism in older versions of the Book of Common Prayer used to begin with this question: “What is your Name?” After saying your name, […]
One of the Best-Selling…, Proper 26 (A) – 2002
[…] You may have heard this prayer before. It is the central prayer of the best-selling book The Prayer of Jabez. A different translation of this verse from the New Revised […]
The Blues Moan in the Gospel Shout, Good Friday – 2015
[…] – even for Christ’s sake. Recently, a group of teens were being introduced to the Book of Common Prayer in their Sunday-school class, and when they got to the section on Proper Liturgies […]
Charity, Ash Wednesday – 2020
[…] fasting, and self-denial, and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word (paraphrased from the Book of Common Prayer’s Ash Wednesday liturgy). It is Ash Wednesday, the day when Christians focus our hearts […]
A Call to Faithful Living, Proper 26 (A) – 1999
[…] every human being. That last admonition, of course, comes from our Baptismal Covenant in the Book of Common Prayer. Since the introduction of the Prayer Book of 1979, we have, as a church, […]
TREC issues A Letter to The Episcopal Church
[…] mission of “restoring all people to unity with God and one another in Christ” ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 855). – Specific examples of what the churchwide structure must and should do […]
Empowering Episcopalians and the next generation to care for creation
[…] talking about stewardship of the planet. It comes from Eucharistic Prayer C, found in the Book of Common Prayer. A little further down the page, the prayer continues: “You made us the rulers […]
Those Characters in the Parable…, Proper 22 (A) – 2011
[…] is our enemy, for together both are propelled toward a new and unexpected creation. The Book of Common Prayer contains a prayer entitled “For Our Enemies.” Let us offer it now: “O God, […]
What Does Our Culture…, Proper 10 (B) – 2009
[…] two very different times, dancing two very different dances. In our reading from the Second Book of Samuel, David has brought to his city the Ark of the Covenant, the […]
March 3: World Mission Sunday
[…] impact of the Baptismal Covenant’s call to “seek and serve Christ in all persons” ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 305). It is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the many ways […]
Reflecting on the Past Year: A Conversation with the Presiding Bishop
[…] mission of the church. And the mission of the church, as we’re told in the Book of Common Prayer, which is of course the essential document that not only orders our worship but […]
Global Mission Digital Toolkit
[…] is “to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ” ( Book of Common Prayer, p 855) in a global context and offers resources to help Episcopalians live into […]
Doctrine of Discovery Lament Offering 1: Acknowledge & Lament the Past and Present
[…] lament, of which there is a great deal in Scripture and the Psalter of the Book of Common Prayer, over time we can learn how to rejoice and how to weep together. Scripture (Old Testament […]
A Pastoral Letter on Israeli Palestinian Peace
[…] in her, And the Most High himself shall sustain her.” — Psalm 87 (page 711, Book of Common Prayer) My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The events of recent weeks have drawn […]
Faith Transfigured: Lenten Meditation, 2/24/2013
[…] into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 217).