The phrase “Common Prayer” is a reference to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer exists in multiple versions as it has been adapted to different countries and in multiple editions as it has been revised over the years. But when traditional Anglicans in America refer to the Book of Common Prayer they generally are speaking of the text that is the standard for traditional Anglican worship in the United States, the American 1928 Book of Common Prayer (generally speaking, editions of the Book of Common Prayer produced after the early 1960’s tend to deviate, in some aspects, from the Christian faith “once delivered” and should be consulted with extreme caution – the exception to this might be the Anglican Service Book – a traditional reworking of the 1979 American prayerbook produced by the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, PA and the Roman Catholic Book of Divine Worship also based on the 1979 book).
The text of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer is available online at no charge. It can also be purchase in a leather bound edition here.
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