'The Book of Common Prayer is, next to the Bible,the most important literary monument of the reformation of religion, and second only to the Bible it has been the greatest force in the development of the Anglo-Saxon character. With the advent of the Prayer Book, the services of the Church were no longer wrapped in a dead language, but stood out in the glowing speech to be used and understood by all. It was common to the King, or to the President and to the most humble person in the nations.It is the Book of Common Prayer, common to all who desire to use it in the Service of Worship of Almighty God.
Do we understand our Book of Common Prayer? We must first realize that it was very deliberately and carefully planned. This book could not and does not contain anything which does not conform and which is not in harmony with Holy Scripture."
(from The National Significance of the Book of Common Prayer byLt.-Col. J.G. Wright).
Do we understand our Book of Common Prayer? We must first realize that it was very deliberately and carefully planned. This book could not and does not contain anything which does not conform and which is not in harmony with Holy Scripture."
(from The National Significance of the Book of Common Prayer byLt.-Col. J.G. Wright).
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