Simon's Liturgical Library
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WELCOME to my liturgical library, a collection of authorized and
other texts used in the Church of England and in the wider Anglican
Communion and elsewhere.
Several people have contributed texts to this collection. If
you have other material you would like to share then please
email me.
If the material is already on the WWW then I can link to it;
if it is not I may be able to provide space for it. I hope to
make this a comprehensive collection of material and links.
Most of these texts are available here, formatted for viewing on the
WWW. Some are available as Rich Text Format (or RTF) files,
so they should be readable by most word processors on various
platforms. A few others are plain text, depending on the source.
The following texts are available (in html except where noted):
- from the Alternative Service Book 1980:
- from the Book of Common Prayer (1662):
- other English material:
- The Church of England will, if final approval is given by General
Synod in 1997, have a new calendar.
Keeping the
Feast is an on-line version with additional material.
- The Eucharist is also being revised by the Church of England.
Details of the draft service are contained in the report
Holy
Communion Rites A & B Revised
- The Promise of His Glory provides services
and prayers for the season from All Saints' Day to
Candlemas, and was commended for use in 1991. The draft
version is available on the WWW, and differs only in minor
details. Email
me for the URL.
- Similarly the draft version of Patterns for
Worship is available.
Email me
for the URL.
- Six new eucharistic prayers
which narrowly failed to gain authorization in February 1996.
- from the Church of Ireland
- from the Episcopal Church in the USA
- The Psalter
of the ECUSA 1979 Book of Common Prayer, fully formatted for the WWW.
Other parts of the
BCP
are under development.
- Meanwhile there are several other impressions of the 1979 BCP
here
and here in RTF
and plain text.
- The American 1928
Book of Common Prayer which is used by one of the continuing Anglican
churches in the USA
- Some texts from various editions of the Book of Common
Prayer from 1549.
- other liturgical items
Simon Kershaw
7th November, 1996.