Book Of Common Prayer Personal Ecomony Edition Black [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1985

This compact yet comprehensive prayer book is a cherished resource for Episcopalians everywhere and the perfect choice for wide distribution in schools and for use as a pew prayer book. The Holy Eucharist, the principal act of Christian worship on the Lord's Day and other major Feasts, and Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, as set forth in this book, are the regular services appointed for public worship in this Church.

The Economy Edition includes the Revised Common Lectionary. The cover is embossed with an elegant gold cross.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1008 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (January 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0866839313
• ISBN-13: 978-0866839310
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,256,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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128 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one book that always travels with me., November 22, 1998

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Gary Kim - See all my reviews

This review is from: Book Of Common Prayer Personal Ecomony Edition Black (Hardcover)

This is a liturgical resource of wonderful depth, compact in size and hardcover so you can take it with you everywhere. Whether you are an Episcopalian or not, you can use it to meditate, reflect and pray at dawn, mid-day, evening and before sleep, as is the habit of monastic orders. The BCP also provides the daily liturgy Episcopalians celebrate daily, on a global basis.I'm a Catholic, but I use the BCP that way, since the liturgy parallels our own. For those of you whose faith life is magnified knowing people all over the world are praying exactly the same thing you are, in exactly the same words, on the same day, the BCP is a treasure. For those of you planning wedding liturgies, BCP is what my Methodist wife, her pastor and I decided to use at our own wedding. check it out. In the back of the BCP you'll find the Common Lectionary, a three-year cycle for reading the New Testament used by many churches--Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Methodist--among others. The Common Lectionary tells you what scriptures will be read, every day of the year, at daily services.

73 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Portable Liturgy, January 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Book Of Common Prayer Personal Ecomony Edition Black (Hardcover)

This edition of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer is perfect for the worshipper on the go. It is very compact in size and it is hardback so it will last longer. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting a closer walk with God. You can use it to pray at morning, evening, noon, and late at night. This is the ideal BCP for anyone taking Christian Education classes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Liturgy, Easy to Follow, August 21, 2002

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Aaron Orear (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Book Of Common Prayer Personal Ecomony Edition Black (Hardcover)

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer returned the Eucharist to a place of primacy in the Episcopal Church. It replaced the beautiful Phos Hilaron in the Evening Prayer, brought Compline back to the liturgy and provided a variety of services for congregations, families and individuals.

What, precisely, the below reviewer MEANS by "no longer Christian" is quite beyond me. As for "totally junking the creeds" he might try opening to pages 53, 66, 96, 120, 292, 304, 416 or 496 on which the Apostle's Creed appears...Or maybe pages 326, 358, 519, 529 and 541 where the Nicene Creed is printed. If anything the Episcopal Church will keep the Creeds long after fundamentalist Christians have forgotten that they exist.

I'd also take exception with the notion that the 1979 BCP is "No longer in touch with a 2,000 year tradition of faith." If anything this edition restored a great deal of the Patristic Church's ceremony and solemnity. The traditions bemoaned below might refer to the quaint use of "thy" and "thou" in the 1928 version. I certainly don't see any loss of Christian morals there. As for Christian identity, most of the text of the BCP is taken straight from the Bible - the whole thing is basically the Bible turned into prayer.

The 1979 BCP isn't a perfect book - nothing touched by human hands can ever be. It is, however, a book that invites the worshipper to prayer...and that's all it aims to do.