Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is the liturgy of the Anglican Church. In it you will find orders for Morning and Evening Prayer ( Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer ), baptism, the Lord's Supper (Holy Communion, and Holy Eucharist or Mass ), confirmation and marriage as well as texts in church service to women for hospital visit, funeral and ordination. In accordance with these prescribed texts were set to music and musical services; the musical settings but are printed in their own hymnals and not in the Book of Common Prayer itself

It appeared in its first edition in 1549, mainly responsible was Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was in the same year of Edward VI. introduced nationwide. In part, considerably revised editions appeared in 1552, 1559, 1604 and in 1662. The book was set more than once in the Uniformitätsakten as binding. Only in 1980 the "Alternative Service Book" has been authorized for use next to the 1662er issue in the Church of England. With the independence of the Episcopal Church in the USA, this was a book, with no mention of the king of England. According to this version from 1790 published revisions in 1890 and 1928. The current issue in the United States, from 1979, is ( like the English "Alternative Service Book" ) is a product of the world's liturgical reform movement, which strives for a more contemporary language, but also the urkirchliche Eucharistic element and a more joyful, less humble attitude in the center moves. In 2000, the Alternative Service Book of the Church of England by the book Common Worship was replaced.

See also: rite