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A Corporate Act of Prayer Members of the Society are encouraged to join together in saying the following Collect at the same time in their own homes, at 10.00p.m. each Sunday evening. THE COLLECT OF THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Issue No. 17 · Trinity 2021 Registered office: The Studio, Copyhold Press: ISSN: 2059-9528 Farm, Goring Heath, Reading RG8 7RT Please direct any press enquiries to our Patron: PR consultants, Tim Stanley Public The Prayer Book Today Relations Ltd. HRH The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB Editor: Telephone: 07779 129305 The Revd Canon Andrew Hawes Ecclesiastical Patron: E-mail: [email protected] The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. The Lord Chartres, Address for correspondence: GCVO, PC The Prayer Book Society’s child The Prayer Book Society, The Studio, protection policy is available on its Copyhold Farm, Goring Heath, President: website, www.pbs.org.uk Reading RG8 7RT Lord Cormack, DL, FSA Telephone: 0118 984 2582 The Prayer Book Society, like the E-mail: [email protected] Vice-Presidents: Church of England, is a broad church Website: www.pbs.org.uk The Revd Dr Roger Beckwith which embraces a wide breadth of opinion and churchmanship. Views Miss Prudence Dailey All contributions, including articles, expressed in the The Prayer Book Today are letters for publication, Branch news The Rt Hon. Frank Field those of their individual authors, and and notices of forthcoming events, Professor Roger Homan do not necessarily represent the should be sent to ‘The Prayer Book The Rt Hon. Lord Hurd of Westwell, opinion of the Society or of the Editor. 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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the Editor, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organisation. Presentation to Prudence HRH The Duke of Dailey Edinburgh First, let me thank everyone who has With great sadness, the Trustees of the Prayer contributed to the gift for Prudence. Book Society received the news of the death Secondly, I can now report that there will on Friday, 9th April 2021 of His Royal be a presentation event in Oxford on Saturday, Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of 4th September. Details are given in the letter Edinburgh. They join countless others in enclosed with this issue of The Prayer Book Today . giving thanks to Almighty God for his life and David Richardson Deputy Chairman faith, and for his long and dedicated service to the nation and Commonwealth. Trusting in our Lord’s promise, ‘I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in 50th anniversary of the me, though he were dead, yet shall he live’, they send Her Majesty the Queen and all PBS—save the date members of the Royal Family their sincerest Celebrations at Westminster Abbey on condolences, praying that God will grant to Saturday, 8th October 2022. them and all who mourn the consolation of Further details to be announced in the next his love. issue. God save the queen. CONTENTS Presentation to Prudence Dailey 3 50th anniversary of the PBS 3 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 3 Conference and AGM update 4 A Prayer Book funeral? 4 Four reviews of the PBS Lent online seminars 5 Words that continue to comfort 8 Great comfort can be found in the BCP— leading London journalist 9 Cranmer Awards report 10 Appointment of new Trustee 11 Cranmer Commemoration 12 Popular online training tool from the PBS is praised by clergy and ordinands 13 Prayer Book Tale: a gift to an archbishop 14 New Corporate Member parishes 17 The use of the Litany in private prayer 20 Correspondence 22 News from the Branches 24 Forthcoming Events 25 Prayer Book Society Bookshop promotions 26 PBS Bookshop Trinity 2021 27 Branch Contacts 30 3 Conference and AGM update 2021 Scholarship, established by the Society in 2019 It will unfortunately not be possible for us to hold to encourage academic research relating to the a residential conference this year, as previously Book of Common Prayer. He is a lecturer in the planned. Liverpool Hope University has decided, Department of Writing and Linguistics at for understandable reasons, that it must cancel Georgia Southern University bookings for 2021 and only accept bookings for • Evensong: the officiant will be the Revd Paul the period from next January onwards. Thomas (Vicar of St James’s and a former We do however plan to hold a one-day Deputy Chairman of the Prayer Book Society), conference in September this year. The date will be with singing by members of the church choir. Saturday, 11th September 2021 and the location St James’s, Sussex Gardens, London. This is within Further details will be circulated nearer the time. walking distance of Paddington main line and tube The programme will be available on Zoom for stations. The church can accommodate up to 150 members unable to be present in person. people within current requirements as to social distancing. 2022 The programme will comprise: Merseyside remains our goal! We have booked Liverpool Hope University for • Lunch a residential Conference from Thursday, 8th • Transaction of AGM business September to Saturday, 10th September 2022. The • Talk by guest speaker, Drew Keane. Drew is a theme of the Conference will be ‘All Sorts and PhD research student at the University of St Conditions’: this will focus on the use of the BCP Andrews and the first holder of the John Cosin in varying contexts. A Prayer Book funeral? he funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh did The PBS has an excellent leaflet about this contain elements from the Book of titled, ‘A Prayer Book funeral? Notes for those Common Prayer but it was not a ‘Prayer concerned’ by the Revd Neil Patterson. This can be TBook funeral’. The Psalms, Canticles and some of obtained from the PBS office or downloaded from the prayers were from the Prayer Book, but the the PBS website. It contains guidance for the only parts taken from the Prayer Book burial rite minister, for those planning their own funeral and were the Funeral Sentences. Prince Philip’s funeral for bereaved families. It also gives a sample order followed the modern practice of a bespoke liturgy of services for both church and crematorium. built around his own choices. This is so often the The leaflet concludes: case these days. It begs the question: is there a ‘Prayer Book It may be said that the whole spirit of the funeral service’? To be accurate, the Prayer Book Prayer Book service is one of simplicity and does not have a funeral service but a service for the humility before our Redeemer and Judge— Burial of the Dead. It is a short service, which, it is those who ask for it will probably not want envisaged, happens at the graveside. The Prayer sentimental remembrances or optimistic Book as proposed in 1928 has an order for a assertions about their goodness, but rather to church service followed by a burial, which have their mortal remains committed to incorporates the 1662 rite. This service is found in destruction, confident as sinners they are Common Worship: Pastoral Services, and anyone redeemed by grace and shall thus rise to glory who would prefer a ‘Prayer Book funeral’ should on the Last Day.