The Book of Common Prayer, although mutable and equivocal, is the measuring-stick of Anglophone piety—and ever shall be, world without end. ... Donate Today: $5 $25 $50 $100 Custom.

Insights from Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Martin Luther, and more. For the highest prayer is to the goodness of God, and that comes down to us in our lowest need. It quickens our soul and gives it ...

First off, Swift reminds us that “The Book of Common Prayer” was never a static work. Though first published as a compendium of the Anglican rituals of morning prayer, baptism, marriage ...

The initial clues appeared on the prayer book’s inside flap. First, I investigated the address. From conversations I had had with my mother, I knew her family had moved to Hewes Street around ...

After the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis gave the crowd a pocketbook of prayers "for the various times of the day and for different situations in life". Earlier, he had blessed the "Baby Jesus ...

Since Archbishop Cranmer drew up the first Anglican Book of Common Prayer in 1548, revisions and proposals for revision have cropped up regularly. Still more thoroughgoing, Agnostic Shaw proposed ...

But he acknowledged that people on the opposite side were pleased, too: “Others would say we saved the 1979 prayer book. That’s still our prayer book. They can claim victory, if you will.” ...

Another book with the same approach is Donald G. Bloesch’s The Struggle of Prayer. He criticizes what he calls “Christian mysticism.” He resists the teaching that prayer’s ultimate goal is ...