This was originally posted on Anglican Pastor. The original text can be read here. As you are browsing through the Daily Office of your 1979 BCP or “Texts for Common Prayer” for the ACNA, you will run into an order of liturgy called “Compline.” Maybe you’re familiar with Compline and maybe you’re not. It doesn’t … Continue reading What is Compline?
Perhaps most obvious is the verse from Psalm 95 when the psalmist urges the assembly, “O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” (Psalm 95:6). There is an inherent connection between kneeling and worshipping: that which we do with our bodies is as expressive as our words, if not more so. Continue reading Why Do We Kneel in Prayer?
This was first published on my former blog, “The Liturgical Theologian.” The original can be read here. Almighty and everliving God, whose servant Thomas Cranmer, with others, restored the language of the people in the prayers of your Church: Make us always thankful for this heritage; and help us so to pray in the Spirit … Continue reading Celebrating the Feast of the First Book of Common Prayer, 1549
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