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

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

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

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

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

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

The Three-Fold Regula

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

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

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

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

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