A book of common prayer

       I found a reprint of a 350 year old Anglican book to be my start point. Presently I live in what I think of as a basically primitive Christian Church area. For example, I think there may be one Episcopalian church in the entire County, and it is not located here, like where I live.

            I am hoping a 350 year old book might be generic enough for me, and others. Like I said, it is a start point for me.

            Here is a marketing review that describes the book probably better than I can.

                         This exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorates the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers (Austen, Swift, the Brontës). It features a new introduction by The New Yorker’s book critic, James Wood, discussing how it has influenced the English language and literature.

 

As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth century by Thomas Cranmer, who was burned at the stake upon the accession to the throne of the ardently Catholic Queen Mary, it contains the entire liturgy as first presented in English—as well as some of the oldest phrases to be used by modern English speakers. Here are the daily prayers, scripture readings, psalm recitals, and the services marking such religious milestones as baptism, confirmation, and marriage (“to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, to till death do us part”), all from the 1662 edition, whose words live on to this day in figures of speech, ceremonial vows and benedictions, and in the work of some of the greatest writers in English literature.

 

            Here is what one customer said.

                        Intro is expansion of New Yorker piece, and adds a lot for non-Church of England folks.

A real piece of Western culture.

My intent is to get help for myself and any lay leaders if times get hard, and we have to perform religious events by ourselves.