PrayerBookMan

In praise of the Book of Common Prayer

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@Carolin80951797 Thank you. Good for both of you, I hope.

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Reopened my copy of the English Missal. Given to me years ago by a church warden. Belonged to one of her deceased relatives and she knew I was interested in Eucharistic belief over the centuries. I’ll let you know when I refresh my memory.

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@BishopBarron I read of all catechumens with admiration and sympathy, especially as in ancient times they had at first to wait outside at all services . The time they came in was to receive
the Body and Blood,for the first time.

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The Burial of the Dead service from the Book of Common Prayer: one does not just admire its beauty, one surrenders to it.

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#BurialoftheDead

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I’m still deep in the works of Thomas Aquinas.
He favoured with exceptions the Ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle.
Unlike the Ancient Greeks, however, he believed the world actually began. Can we grasp that some if not all believed the world always existed!

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STILL rereading of and listing the marvellous variations . In and out of the Church of England, at present, and in the past, the Bread and Wine of the Communion Service are powerful symbols and more than symbols.

#Eucharist
#BookofCommonPrayer
#HolyCommunion

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I’m content rereading and reminding myself of the various beliefs about the bread and wine of the Communion service.
Is it remarkable that people were executed for believing one thing or another at the wrong time in history. Or is it remarkable? Belief is a physical force.

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Thomas Aquinas makes practical sense on the Eucharist. His point is it’s all in the mind. Just as philosophers say about everything. I say this favourably.

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‘Neverthelesse,, my soule, waite thou still upon God : for my hope is in hym.’

—First Prayer-Book
of Edward VI
1549
Monday in Easter Week

#BookofCommonPrayer

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@hordeofduck Booksellers of secondhand volumes in hard times.
An individual won’t want everything but single items.
Without the owner being with the volumes, the books revert to unwanted, with too few exceptions.
My condolences for the absence of the reader who loved them.

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@BradleyBarnham Takes courage just to do the climb.

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@BpBlackburn @UKLabour @Conservatives @LibDems Why the withdrawal?

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I like the statement religious belief unquestioned is liable to degenerate into superstition. Who said that? Was it T S Eliot?
Of course it all depends on what you mean by religious belief and superstition. Some sceptics say religious belief is superstition. A cheap jibe.

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@BradleyBarnham Perhaps the train just left, and latecomers are still on the escalator.

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@prayerbook_soc Another favourite passage.

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@prayerbook_soc One of my favourite passages. And true, too.

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‘But chiefly we are bound to praise thee, for the glorious resurrection of thy sonne Jesus Christe…’

—Preface ‘Upon Easter daie’, First Book of Common Prayer, 1549

#Resurrection
#Easterdaie
#EasterDay

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Christ’s Resurrection to me is poignant in that ordinary reaction of the bystander: spotting someone you recognise. I think of the Gospel stating people saw Jesus at various times and places after his death.

#Resurrection
#Jesus
#Easter
#EasterSunday

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‘…who by his death hath destroyed death…’

—First Book of Common Prayer, 1549