Insights into Prayer Book and Devotional Life: A Comprehensive Overview
Delve into the rich history, reforms, and proposed changes in the prayer book and devotional practices outlined through images and reviews. Exploring the evolution of the prayer book, introduction of lectionaries, and the significance of the Three-Fold Regula in English spirituality provide a deeper understanding of this integral aspect of religious life.
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The Prayer Book And Devotional Life Part 1: An Overview
Review from Prologue History of the Offices OT Daily Offerings Devotion Synagogue NT and Early Practice Daily Corporate Prayer Sunday Eucharist Monastic Practice 8 Offices, not public
Review from Prologue Reformation Cranmer s Preface Corruptions Not systematic Not Scripture Not vernacular Over-Complex
Review from Prologue Reformation Solution Systematic reading via Kalendar More Patristic in method Plain English Simplified order Unified Common Prayer
Review from Prologue Lectionaries: 1945 in our BCP Church Year, seasonal Less Scripture The North American Anglican Proposed our new use Civil Year (like Cranmer s) All of Scripture Some Apocrypha One- or Two-Year Options
Review from Prologue ACNA Proposed Lectionary Civil Year Most (but not all) of Scripture Some Apocrypha Monthly Psalter One- or two-year Option
Review from Prologue The Psalter Monastic Rationale for the Offices Cranmer, TNAA, ACNA Monthly Cycle 1945 More thematic, cuts some
Three-Fold Regula Regula Rule of Life Three-Fold Communion Offices Devotions Martin Thornton (1915-1986) in English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology According to the English Pastoral Tradition, 1963, 1986
Three-Fold Regula Communion Weekly/Sundays Holy Days Essentially Public Rome does private Anglicans do not
Three-Fold Regula Daily Offices Morning Prayer Matins Evening Prayer Evensong/Vespers Essentially Public, though can be private Expected in BCP Litany in may be added
Three-Fold Regula Devotions - BCP Family Prayer section in BCP Offices of Instruction Essentially private, though can be done in public
Three-Fold Regula Devotions - Other Compline & Other Monastic Offices Rosary/Benediction Extemporaneous/Intercessory Prayer Essentially private, though can be done in public
