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Interested in the Book of Common Prayer? The 1662 International Edition from @ivpacademic comes in three formats, and there is a user guide--"How to Use the Book of Common Prayer." And IVP hosts a site with free resources and FAQs.
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Ever wondered how to use the Book of Common Prayer? For any edition, this book will help. Alastair Begg called it "an excellent guide"; Alan Jacobs "a trove of wonders"; and Susannah Black Roberts "a map through the Christian life in an Anglican key."
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Tomorrow is St. Luke the Evangelist. The theme of healing runs through all the collects, but the 1662IE and Common Worship keep the point about what Luke deserves to be praised for (cf. 2 Cor. 8:18), which sets up the physician/physician wordplay.
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Listening to someone say “The great thing about liturgy is that you can do whatever you want”
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Interested in the classic Book of Common Prayer? The international edition from @ivpress is 50% off at Amazon. Alan Jacobs called it "a beautiful project," and Catherine Pickstock called it "a unique liturgical treasure for the benefit of all Christians and all nations."
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1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition retweeted
“It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it.”
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Does your psalter have dragons? From today's psalms in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (@ivpacademic)--
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On St. Bartholomew's Day, the classic Book of Common Prayer has Sirach 24 as the first lesson. It's a paean to wisdom, personified as a woman (just like Proverbs 8), with incarnational themes (cf. Sirach 24:8 and John 1:14). Here's a fitting prayer for wisdom:
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