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Interested in the 1662 readings for other Sundays, with epistles and gospels drawn from the historic one-year eucharistic lectionary? You can find out more at the additional resources page for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition:
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Interested in the Sunday readings in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer? Here are thoughts on the readings for Lent 4 (with the BCP 1549 introit):
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Want to know more about the origins of the Book of Common Prayer? From the Living Church podcast, link below:
God made you and loves you, and he is the God of all mercy. In the classic Book of Common Prayer, this prayer is said twice a day for forty days:
From the special Ash Wednesday service (called "the Commination") in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition is a great companion to help you along on the path of Lent and Holy Week, as we follow our Lord in the way of humility, the way of the cross, the way of waiting for resurrection:
From the appendix of additional prayers in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition:
A great piece from @livingchurch.bsky.social on Ash Wednesday, bringing together the historic gospel for the day, medieval practices, and the Book of Common Prayer tradition:
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Wondering where to start with the Anglican prayer book? Here's a Beginner's Guide to Evening Prayer:
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If we start Lent this way, we’ll still give things up. It *is* forty days of fasting. But how we begin changes how we continue.
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and God’s rich supply of that mercy (“may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness”).
This is how a prayer-book Lent begins: as a season for those who know they are loved, for those who have already mourned their sins and received God’s forgiveness.
our request not merely for external reformation but for the divine gift of a new heart (“Create and make in us new and contrite hearts”); our need of divine mercy because of our sins (“worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness”);
The collect introduced on the First Day of Lent strikes all the keynotes of this season (p. 87). It has God’s great love for us (“who hatest nothing that thou hast made”); his welcome for all penitent sinners (“who . . . dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent”);
When we leave, we aren’t carrying on our faces a reminder of mortality. Instead, we begin the Lenten journey with the joy of the prodigal child who once was lost but now is found. We have been brought to the Father’s table.
This deeply moving psalm ends with the joy of a forgiven sinner. Then come more prayers, ending with blessing and peace. And then Holy Communion.
Commination and Communion set the tone for Lent. These services are serious about sin and serious about forgiveness.
What comes next in the Commination service is a dramatic moment: the priest walks out of the chancel, joining the congregation in kneeling and saying Psalm 51, David’s great prayer of confession after he committed adultery and murder.
the just requirements of the law of God: after each curse, the congregation says “Amen.” Next comes a short evangelistic homily, which begins with haunting imagery of divine judgment, but then turns halfway through to extol the grace and mercy offered to sinners in Jesus Christ.
