Christopher Jobson forwarded this article, written by Dame Iris Murdoch, on the loss of access to both of the above. “We live continually in and through words. Memories of words, poetic and sacred, travel with us through life. The loss of lively and natural access to the Authorised Version of the Bible and Cranmer’s Book … Continue reading Losing Access to the Authorised Version of the Bible and Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer (BCP)
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Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
The first English Book of Common Prayer 1549 was largely the work of Thomas Cranmer. He had been working on the revision of the daily services for at least ten years previously. It is in his work on the daily services that Cranmer’s liturgical genius reached its highest expression. The Roman Catholic scholar Louis Bouyer … Continue reading Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer
T.S.Eliot, widely regarded as the greatest poet of the twentieth century, wrote: Words after speech, reachInto silence,Only by the form, the pattern,Can words or music reachThe stillness. People do not get religious faith in the same way they get knowledge. In reality, faith is not something one gets but is something one receives. Our Lord … Continue reading The Book of Common Prayer