History and spirituality of the book of common prayer

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Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

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.doc

Published date :

07/07/2008

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Humanities/philosophy

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Summary :

Introduction.
Matrimony.
Marriage Ceremony in the 1928 and 1979 Editions.
Declaration of Consent in History.

Abstract

Introduction
The book of common prayer is the universal title given to a number of prayer books in the Church of England and used all throughout the Anglican Communion. The very first volume, that came out in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was the creation and the result of the English Reformation which ensued with the breakup with Rome. Basically, the prayer books, not like the books of prayers, have in them the expressions and the terminology of ordered and well-thought out services of worship. What was produced in 1549 was the very first prayer book to include the forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English and done in a single volume. It contained the morning prayer, evening prayer, the Litany and the Holy Communion. Likewise, the volume contained the other occasional services in full detail -- the orders for confirmation, baptism, marriage, prayers for the sick and the funeral service. Also, it established in full the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service and specified the Old Testament and New Testament readings for everyday prayers in tabular format (Careless 26).The 1549 book was swiftly followed by a further more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Essentially, it never came into full use because, on the death of Edward VI, Mary his half-sister, revitalized Catholic worship. On Mary's death, a vaguely customized version of the 1552 volume was published in 1559. In the turbulent events that ensued leading to and including the English Civil War, the last major revision was published in 1662.