Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jkk@aiai.ed.ac.uk (John Kingston) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Question re Book of Common Prayer circa 1900 Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 06:19:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh Lines: 38 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article <1053@halley.UUCP> kidd@halley.UUCP (Dave Kidd) writes: >I recently acquired my grandmother's Anglican (CofE) Book of Common Prayer. >It'd be circa 1900, since the prayer for the sovereign was for VICTORIA. >However, the last signature of pages is missing, from about psalm 105 on. > >My question is about a service which occurs in the table of contents, >about a form of prayer to be used on June 20th. My question: what's so special >about June 20th? I looked in the calendar for my Canadian BCP 1959, and >the US Episcopal BCP 1976, but didn't find anything worth a service to itself! I have no idea what's special about June 20th, unless it was the birthday of a member of the royal family. I'm crossposting this to soc.religion.christian - I've seen discussion there about special days (and special colours to be worn on special days) in the Catholic/Orthodox/high Anglican tradition. > >By the way, does CofE still use BCP 1662, as they did when I was there many >years ago? Or have has their liturgy been reformed, too? This weekend, when >our Texas church read Psalm 23, we used the Burial of the Dead KJV version >instead of the psalter (Great Bible?) version. The C of E published an Alternative Service Book a while ago. The Anglican churches I used to go to both adopted the ASB (Series 3 - I presume there are other series) in place of the prayer book. The ASB is thinner (almost no psalms in it) and replaces a lot of "thy"s and "thou"s with "your" and "you". It can, however, be quite beautiful - one church (St. Nicholas' Durham) chose to sing certain of the passages in the Communion service, which I appreciated greatly. There are probably other alterations to the ASB from the prayer book which are based on contemporary thought and new Bible manuscripts (cf. new translations of the Bible). I believe some Anglican churches still use the 1662 prayer book. John Kingston, AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, Scotland E-mail jkk@uk.ac.ed.aiai, phone 031-225 4464 ext. 213 FAX: 031 226 2730 Arpanet: J.Kingston%uk.ac.ed@nfsnet-relay.ac.uk TELEX: 727442 UNIVED G