![]() ![]() Take, for example, this excerpt from the Absolution in the Daily Office: ![]() Also in contrast to CP2011, this book seems to produce more of a low-church feel to it. It might even go in the other direction, feeling a bit calm and informal by comparison. Its language style is plain and simple, and strikes me as a little less awkward than that found in Common Prayer 2011. It contains an entire Prayer Book, omitting only a Psalter, and very closely preserves traditional Anglican liturgy in contemporary English. Their Prayer Book, sometimes nicknamed “the blue book”, however popular or obscure, was a gem of a resource. I don’t know how widely-used this book ended up being, given the colorful and complicated history of AMiA’s founding, leaving, and partially re-joining the ACNA, eventually splitting from its parent province Rwanda, and the complicated leadership debacle surrounding its founding Bishops. Peter Toon, then President of the Prayer Book Society of the USA. In 2008 the Anglican Mission in the Americas (then AMiA) published An Anglican Prayer Book to provide their congregations with historic Anglican liturgy in contemporary idiom. ![]() Or, how easy it is to read, the prayer life it engenders, and how much it can teach you. Welcome to Saturday Book Review time! On most of the Saturdays this year we’re looking at a liturgy-related book noting (as applicable) its accessibility, devotional usefulness, and reference value. ![]()
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