What is the Daily Office in the Episcopal Church?
The Daily Office in Anglican churches focuses the traditional canonical hours on daily services of morning prayer (also called matins or mattins) and evening prayer (usually called evensong, especially when celebrated chorally), usually following local editions of the Book of Common Prayer.
What prayer book does the Episcopal Church use?
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer, liturgical book used by churches of the Anglican Communion.
What churches use the lectionary?
It is the official lectionary of the United Methodist Church, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ. Because of its general adoption by the ELCA, the RCL is currently the most widely used lectionary in American Lutheran churches (Just look which reading is listed first in your AAL calendar).
How does the Anglican lectionary work?
The major principle behind the lectionary is that on a Sunday members of congregations should be able to hear the voice of each writer week by week, rather than readings being selected according to a theme. Thus, in any given year the writer of one of the first three gospels will be heard from beginning to end.
Who wrote the 1662 Book of Common Prayer?
Thomas Cranmer
The new book was approved by a committee of thirteen clerics who had met during the previous September and October. It was drafted by Thomas Cranmer, who had been working privately on a new liturgy for several years and whose prose has been one of the glories of the English language ever since.
Who reads the lectionary?
The one-year Jewish lectionary reads the entirety of the Torah within the space of a year and may have begun in the Babylonian Jewish community; the three-year Jewish lectionary seems to trace its origin to the Jewish community in and around the Holy Land.
Who uses the common lectionary?
The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary of readings or pericopes from the Bible for use in Christian worship, making provision for the liturgical year with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons.