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The Prayer Book And Devotional Life

The Prayer Book And Devotional Life. Part 1: An Overview. Review from Prologue Week. Review from Prologue. History of the Offices OT Daily Offerings  Devotion  Synagogue NT and Early Practice Daily Corporate Prayer Sunday Eucharist Monastic Practice – 8 Offices, not public.

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The Prayer Book And Devotional Life

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  1. The Prayer Book And Devotional Life Part 1: An Overview

  2. Review from Prologue Week

  3. Review from Prologue • History of the Offices • OT Daily Offerings  Devotion  Synagogue • NT and Early Practice • Daily Corporate Prayer • Sunday Eucharist • Monastic Practice – 8 Offices, not public

  4. Review from Prologue • Reformation – Cranmer’s Preface • Corruptions • Not systematic • Not Scripture • Not vernacular • Over-Complex

  5. Review from Prologue • Reformation Solution • Systematic reading via “Kalendar” • More Patristic in method • Plain English • Simplified order • Unified – “Common Prayer”

  6. Review from Prologue • Lectionaries: • 1945 – in our BCP • Church Year, seasonal • Less Scripture • The North American Anglican Proposed – our new use • Civil Year (like Cranmer’s) • All of Scripture • Some Apocrypha • One- or Two-Year Options

  7. Review from Prologue • ACNA Proposed Lectionary • Civil Year • Most (but not all) of Scripture • Some Apocrypha • Monthly Psalter • One- or two-year Option

  8. Review from Prologue • The Psalter • Monastic Rationale for the Offices • Cranmer, TNAA, ACNA – Monthly Cycle • 1945 – More thematic, cuts some

  9. The Three-Fold Regula

  10. Three-Fold Regula • Regula – “Rule of Life” • Three-Fold • Communion • Offices • Devotions • Martin Thornton (1915-1986) in English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology According to the English Pastoral Tradition, 1963, 1986

  11. Three-Fold Regula • Communion • Weekly/Sundays • Holy Days • Essentially Public • Rome does private • Anglicans do not

  12. Three-Fold Regula • Daily Offices • Morning Prayer – Matins • Evening Prayer – Evensong/Vespers • Essentially Public, though can be private • Expected in BCP • Litany in may be added

  13. Three-Fold Regula • Devotions - BCP • “Family Prayer” section in BCP • Offices of Instruction • Essentially private, though can be done in public

  14. Three-Fold Regula • Devotions - Other • Compline & Other Monastic Offices • Rosary/Benediction • Extemporaneous/Intercessory Prayer • Essentially private, though can be done in public

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