Prayers and Thanksgivings, Upon Several Occasions, To be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning and Evening Prayer Prayers For Rain O God, heavenly Father, who by your Son Jesus Christ has promised to all those who seek your kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily [...]
The Order for Evening Prayer Daily Throughout the Year At the beginning of Evening Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice one or more of the Sentences of the Scriptures which follow Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he [...]
The Order for Morning Prayer Daily Throughout the Year At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice one or more of the Sentences of the Scriptures which follow Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he [...]
The First day of Lent, Commonly called Ash-Wednesday The Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who hates nothing that you have made and does forgive the sins of all them that are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, [...]
Collects, Epistles and Gospels:Advent until Lent The First Sunday of Advent The Collect Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in [...]
At Morning Prayer The following confession of Christian faith (commonly called the Athanasian Creed), shall be used in place of the Apostle’s Creed during morning prayer on the following feasts and appointed days: Christmas Day Epiphany Matthias Easter Day Ascension Day Whitsunday John Baptist James Bartholomew Matthew Simon and Jude Andrew Trinity Sunday The priest [...]
The Litany General Notes The Litany, or General Supplication, to be sung or said after Morning Prayer, upon Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and at other times when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary O God, the Father of heaven : have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven : have [...]
The Order for the Administration of The Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion: As many as intend to partake of the holy Communion shall give their names to the Curate, at the latest the day before If any of those is known to be openly living evily, or has done any wrong to his neighbour (whether in word or in action) and the Congregation is offended; then the Curate, being informed, will call him and tell him, that in no circumstance should he come to the Lord’s Table until he has openly declared himself to have truly repented and amended his former sinful life, so that the offence taken by the Congregation is put to rest; and until he has compensated those he has wronged, or at least declared his full intention to compensate them without undue delay…
The Standard English Project for the Book of Common prayer is an early stage collaborative effort to produce a version of the Book of Common Prayer (1662) which differs (in as much as is possible) only in having a modernised language and visual format…