The Book of Common Prayer in 4 Minutes: Father Matthew Presents

The Book of Common Prayer. Compelling. Beautiful. Yet Daunting! Episcopal priest, the Rev. Matthew Moretz, presents the Book of Common Prayer in its entirety in four (4) minutes, with the help of his friend, Jehosephat. The Book of Common Prayer is the key worship resource for the people of the Episcopal Church. And it is awesome. This video is perfect for Confirmation classes or General Ordination Examination review sessions!
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The Book of Common Prayer in 4 Minutes

The Book of Common Prayer in Four Minutes

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[emogirllover16]

wow great video for someone who doesnt know alot about this religion

[alcholoa2009]

Well-done. Amazing. I love it!



[wftjet]

Great video, but forgot one service, "An Order for Burial," p. 506.

[x8lover]

The BCP has dropped out of favour for the main service over here. Been replaced by Common Worship. The BCP does not meet the needs of modern Christians as its theames are judgement and penance. Certainly not suitable for seasons such as Easter where the emphasis is on celebrating the resurrection. Also what was clear in 1662 is not so clear in meaning now. Language has changed.

Suprised how popular it still is in North America. First BCP sung eucharist was in Canada.

[drewskione]

YAY, I get answers.

[GutpileCharlie]

Excellent video and thanks for posting.

I'm definitely "old school". I wish they had never quit using the 1928 prayer book. Also the 1940 hymnal is head and shoulders better than the 1982 version.

I was confirmed in 1974 and the words of the 1928 book "spoke" to me in a way the new on just does not.

I was a music student in college and we used the 1940 hymnal as a source book for studying music theory. No other hymnal could top it.

Why change something when you've already got it right?

[liturgistic]

That wasn't bad

[Thomistica]

The 1979 BCP isn't deserving of the title. It is a RADICAL departure from the classic, authentic Prayer Book tradition (which the 1928 American edition manages to preserve).

It is very similar to the 1985 'Book of Alternative Services', of the Canadian Church (indeed, the BAS was modelled upon the '79 BCP). Fortunately for Canada, although, unfortunately, the BAS has widely supplanted our great 1962 BCP here, the Church has been honest enough to not call this book the 'Book of Common Prayer'.

[cnedwards]

One might note that the lectionary in the BCP has been supplanted by the Revised Common Lectionary

[KiraWei1]

If I get a Book of Common Prayer, I will actually have an Episcopalian Catechism in it? That is cool.