u/justneedausernamepls — reddlx

Who else went to a Communion service from the 1789 Book of Common Prayer today?

A friend invited me to his church today, which was having a Communion service from the 1789 Book of Common Prayer. I didn't know this was a thing, although it must be because another church a few miles away from me was doing one too. Is this a regular thing in TEC? The language was similar to Rite I, though moved around a bit, and there were entire pieces missing with entirely different parts put in instead. It was fascinating.

u/justneedausernamepls — 9 hours ago

▲ 23 r/Episcopalian

Book recommendation: "The Catholic Movement in the American Episcopal Church" by George E. DeMille

Wanted to recommend a book I recently finished that I thought some people here might be interested in. A while back I came across a list of books on the history of the church, and one that caught my eye was The Catholic Movement in the American Episcopal Church from 1950 by George E. DeMille. Certainly I'm interested in the influence of the Oxford Movement on the church, and this book had plenty of that, but it was also an interesting bit of history on the liturgy, ecclesiology, and (some) theology (as it relates to wording in various revisions of the BCP) dating from the period right after the Revolution until the mid-20th century. It's not just a history of ritualism, and one thread in the book is how things that were out of the question in the late 1700s and early 1800s eventually became unquestioningly commonplace by the later 1800s and 1900s. If that kind of history sounds interesting to you, you can get a reprint of the book here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781556351525/the-catholic-movement-in-the-american-episcopal-church/

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u/justneedausernamepls — 7 days ago

▲ 48 r/Episcopalian

Hey everyone, happy St. John's Eve!

I wanted to say Happy St. John's Eve and share a painting I love. It's an 1875 painting by Jules Breton, and something about the folk celebration of midsummer (as it used to be called before we adopted our modern notion of the seasons) is just captivating to me. We celebrate St. John the Baptist in the Episcopal Church (of course!) and the Daily Office even has a vigil psalm and readings. Even if today we consider the 24th to be a few days after the official start of summer, I think it's cool to look at the customs that people used to do to celebrate the season. One of the reasons I love Christianity is that it connects me to the rhythms of the year more than a lot of things in our secular world do, and especially to very old community customs that died out when the industrial revolution uprooted a lot of people out of their rural villages and into cities. I find the mix of the spiritual and deeply earthy to be intoxicating.

Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his teaching and holy life, that we may truly repent according to his preaching; and, following his example, constantly speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth’s sake; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

(Hoping I don't run afoul of the new image rules, please delete if I have!)

u/justneedausernamepls — 12 days ago