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The Order for Holy Communion

—St. Thomas' Church, Houston

The Order for Holy Communion from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer is introduced by the sound of English change ringing from St. Thomas' outstanding peal of bells.

The service is sung by the Parish Choir assisted by members of Chorus Angelorum using the propers for Ascension Day.

This recording features the Second Communion Service (the Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena by Healey Willan) and anthems of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.

There are three Ascension hymns from the 1940 Hymnal, and Psalm 24 from the Plainsong Psalter.

1. Bells
2. Hymn
3. Collect for Purity, Summary of the Law, Kyrie eleison, Collect for the Day
4. Epistle
5. Psalm
6. Gospel
7. Nicene Creed
8. Offertory Sentence, Anthem and Hymn
9. Prayer for the Church, Invitation, Confession, Absolution and Comfortable Words
10. Sursum corda, Preface and Sanctus
11. Prayer of Consecration
12. The Lord's Prayer and Prayer of Humble Access
13. Agnus Dei
14. Communion Anthem
15. Prayer of Thanksgiving and Gloria in excelsis
16. The Blessing
17. Hymn

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The Book of Common Prayer: Ten Commentaries

Explaining The Book of Common Prayer ? a tenfold treasure

Millions have used The Book of Common Prayer and found that they understood it well enough in order to be able to use it to worship the Lord our God. But there has always been a desire amongst some who use it to know why the services have the structure and content that they do and also what the real meaning of the shape and contents is. Such persons may be motivated by piety or liturgical interests, or both.

Commentaries on the Prayer Book have been published since the 17th century, but the best were published in the late Victorian period and up to the first World War. Five of these are included in this Collection of commentaries. Each one is good but the five together plus one from the 1950s are excellent as a means of gaining real insight into the nature and the characteristics of Common Prayer. They are based on the classic English edition of 1662, which was used in America until the 1780s.

To complete the ten commentaries are four on the 1928 edition of The Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. From these the student will learn what are the differences between the English and American editions of the Prayer Book and why these changes were judged necessary and what they mean.

Books on this CD-ROM
1662
Annotated Book of Common Prayer, by J.H. Blunt. 1895
Church Services and Service-Books Before the Reformation, by Henry Barclay Swete. 1905.
The Prayer-Book, Its History, Language, and Contents, by Evan Daniel. 23rd ed. 1901.
The Prayer Book Pattern, A Consideration, by Caroline Adams. 1957. The Teacher's Prayer Book: being the Book of Common Prayer, with Introductions, Analyses, Notes, and a Commentary upon the Psalter, by Alfred Barry. 16th ed. 1892.
The Tutorial Prayer Book for the Teacher, the Student, and the General Reader. Edited by Charles Neil and J. M. Willoughby. 1913.

1928
The American Prayer Book, Its Origins and Principles, by Edward Lambe Parsons and Bayard Hale Jones. 1955 (from 1937).
The New American Prayer Book, Its History and Contents, by E. Clowes Chorley. 1929.
The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary, by Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr. 1950.
The Prayer Book Reason Why, by Nelson R. Boss. 5th ed. 1942.

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The Book of Common Prayer — Its History, Use and Terms

Three books on this CD:

Liturgy and Worship, a Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion, edited by W. K. Lowther Clarke. SPCK, 1954 [from 1932].

A New History of the Book of Common Prayer with a Rationale of its Offices, by Francis Procter. Revised and rewritten by Walter Howard Frere. Macmillan, 1955.

The Prayer Book Dictionary. Editors: George Harford and Morley Stevenson. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1913.

Learning about the historic Book of Common Prayer

If you are the kind of person who likes to know the origin and meaning and especially the worship of the form of Christianity known as The Anglican Way, then this CD is a "must" for you.

On it in digital form are three basic and important books, wherein the great learning which has characterized The Anglican Way is found in a distilled and readable form. All three books were produced before the advent of modem liturgical texts and they represent the very best of what was available to serious students of liturgy and worship before the 1960s.

The Praver Book Dictionary is very difficult to obtain these days. It is a substantial book wherein there is accurate information on a vast number of topics, some of which are not listed or covered in modem dictionaries.

A New History of the Book of Common Prayer comes here in its final edition. For many years it was a required textbook for students of theology, ordinands and clergy.

While the two former books are chiefly concerned with the editions of the BCP up to that of 1662, Liturgy and Worship also deals with editions outside the Church of England, including the U.S.A.

One further point. In these three books one senses a different ethos and attitude towards the classic Prayer Book than is found in modem liturgical study. Here there is great respect and admiration for the Liturgy of Reformed Catholicism and this is supported by sound and accessible learning!

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The Altar Service Book of the BCP (1928)

The Celebrant at the Holy Table/Altar needs a Prayer Book to use that has large print, opens fully, has rubrics in red and text in black, is durable, and is pleasant to hold and to see. In The Altar Service Book such is now available.

It is bound in fine red leather and printed on superior paper. It is the same format and quality as the previous OUP edition. Good also as a "Coffee Table" book in the home!

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The Service of Holy Communion Annotated

A Commentary upon the Order for the Administration of Holy Communion from The Book of Common Prayer of 1928

Annotations by the Rev. Dr. Peter Toon

The Prayer Book Society of the USA

Only $1.50 per copy when you order 20 or more.

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