Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The offertory sentences of the communion service are a sustained instruction on giving to the poor, and the alms are collected at that point in the rite.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Prayer Book provides for the visitation and the anointing of the sick, and the Articles decline to number it among the two sacraments of the gospel.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The baptismal covenant is the framework of the catechism and of the renewal of vows at Easter.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, the Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin in the older Prayer Book title.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Religious orders were dissolved in the sixteenth century and refounded from 1841 onward, so that this church now has communities of monks and nuns under vows.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called the Churching of Women, is a service of the Prayer Book.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Compline was not in the sixteenth-century books and was restored in the twentieth, and it is now in general use.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Anglicanism keeps auricular confession available but not required, summarised in the maxim that all may, none must, some should; a general confession said by the whole congregation is the ordinary form.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.
Set within a Christian service of the Church of England, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Prayer Book sets out a table of the fasts of the church: Ash Wednesday, the forty days of Lent, the ember days, the rogation days and the Fridays of the year.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Articles direct that the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Intinction is widely used, and the church has argued about it, since the Prayer Book directs that the cup be given to each communicant.
Supreme governor from 1603; he refused the Puritan requests at Hampton Court while granting the new translation that came out of the same conference.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Roman sequence of colours was retained in use and was made explicit again in the modern service books.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The marriage service of the Prayer Book, with its vow to have and to hold, is the ancestor of the wedding words used across the English-speaking world, including by people of no religion.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Morning Prayer is the surviving daily office, and it is Matins and Lauds combined into one service. The reduction of eight hours to two was deliberate and is the plainest liturgical difference between this church and Rome.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept as Whitsunday, and the Sundays of the second half of the year are counted from Trinity rather than from Pentecost.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
The Church of England is England's legally established church, with the monarch as Supreme Governor since Elizabeth I's 1559 Act of Supremacy, a status the rest of the Anglican Communion does not share.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Prayer of Consecration is the Anglican anaphora, and the arrangement of its parts differs between the English, Scottish and American books.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The invocation of the Spirit was in the 1549 book, removed in 1552, and restored in the Scottish and American books, from which it came back into the modern English ones.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The breaking of the bread is a distinct action of the rite and in the modern books has its own words.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Anglicans call it Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass according to churchmanship, and the Thirty-Nine Articles reject transubstantiation while leaving the manner of Christ's presence deliberately undefined.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The words of institution stand in the Prayer of Consecration, and the Articles deny that the sacrament was ordained to be gazed upon or carried about.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The book is Anglicanism's common thread in place of a magisterium, holding morning and evening prayer, communion, baptism, marriage and burial in one volume in the people's hands. Each province has its own version and modern-language rites are now more used, but the 1662 book remains legally established in Engl
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes.
Part of the Church of England's own authorized coronation liturgy specifically, the rite it performs for its own head of state and Supreme Governor.