Th ee Bi-MBi-Monthlyonthly MagMagazineazine ofof thethe PrPrayerayer BBookook SSocietyociety MVolume 27, Number 4 ANDATJuly /E August 2004 IN THIS ISSUE Where can I fi nd a church that uses the 928 BCP? Page 2 British-ness & Anglican- ness Page 3 Th e President of the PBS Page 4 Living the Common Prayer Tradition Page 5 Keeping the Common Prayer Tradition in Living Use A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer Page 6 Common Prayer – from or one generation to another Pages 7 – 8 A Quiver full of Arrows A Prayer Book with the Page 9 Happy 25th Anniversary Page 0 Wrong Title St Luke’s Amherst, NH Page for USA & S.Africa Page 2 the Church of Ireland in Th e Irish BCP of 2004 Pages 3-4 Anglicanism, a CD 2004 Page 5 Order from the PBS Page 6 all of their services, if from the 928, or the ishes that use the 928 BCP. An excellent Where can I fi nd a ones that use the 928 BCP. Th e Reformed reference is the Directory of Traditional Episcopal Church uses a Prayer Book Anglican and Episcopal Parishes, pub- churchchurch that which includes both the 662 (Church of lished by the Fellowship of Concerned uses the England) and much from the 928. Churchmen. Th is directory does not tell In the past I could assume that all of what prayer book is used. Please contact 928928 PrayerPrayer the Continuing Churches would use the editor, Mrs. Jane Nones, 4800 Dupont Book?Book? the 928 BCP fully, but it has come to Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55409 if my attention that parishes of one of the you would like to order a copy. For infor- larger ones have begun the use of the 3 mation call (62) 824 3933. year cycle Eucharistic Lectionary, which A number of readers have written to is a departure from the 928 BCP. Th e tell us of other parishes that use the 928 928 BCP includes the Collect, Epistle, Prayer Book. It makes us glad to know of and Gospel. Sadly, we will no longer list such places, and also that folks are read- parishes from that jurisdiction, unless we ing Mandate. Some have written to tell e List parishes that use the know for a fact that the parish in question us of parishes that use 928 that we have 928 BCP according to state or uses the Eucharistic Lectionary from the already listed. It might be a good idea to area, mentioning their ecclesi- 928 BCP. keep the issues of Mandate that have this Wastical jurisdiction (Episcopal Church or Our knowledge of these matters is lim- column to use for future reference. We one of the “Continuing Churches”), and ited, so we would be happy to hear of par- can only list a parish once.. New Hampshire Nashua Rochester Trinity Church (Anglican Church in St. Andrew’s Church (Anglican Province St. John the Th eologian (Anglican Catholic America) of the Good Shepherd) Church) 80 Rochester Hill Road (Route 08) Holiday Inn Building 24 Eastern Avenue Rochester, NH Nashua, NH (Emmanuel Church Building) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 078 Mailing Address: 279 West Sixth Street Rochester, NH Rochester, NH 03866 Lowell. MA 0850 Mailing Address: 4 Taylor River Estate 603 332 42 978 458 024 Drive Sunday: 8:00 am Holy Communion Sunday 0:00 am Holy Communion Hampton, NH 03842 9:30 am Holy Communion Th e Rev. Charles K. Chege 603 584 2974 or 929 3767 Th e Rev. James H. Davis, SSC, Interim Sunday 9:00 am Holy Communion Rector Plymouth Area Th e Ven. James von Fleckenstein-Curle, St. Michael’s Mission (Anglican Church in Priest-in-Charge Winchester America) Th e Rev. David Rolando, Assistant St. Elphege’s Chapel (Anglican Church in Route 53 (Holderness Community America) Church Building) Please write the Rev. Fr. David C. 320 Bolton Road Holderness, NH Kennedy, SSC, at 723 Hearth Stone Winchester, NH 03470 Mailing Address: Crawford St. Ave., Boynton Beach, FL 33437-2920 603 239 6865 Plymouth, NH 03264 if you know of parishes that use the Sunday 9:30 am Holy Communion or 603 536 794 928 BCP. Needless to say it will take Morning Prayer Sunday 5:00 pm Holy Communion a long time to list them all! Th e Rev. Dean Steward, Vicar Praise God for that!!! Th e Rev. John Szala, Assistant THE MANDATE July / August 2004 Volume 27 , Number 4 Editor: Th e Rev’d Dr.. Peter Toon • Design/Layout: Boldface Graphics Th e Offi cers for the Year 2004 are: President: Th e Rev. David Kennedy, SSC, of Florida • Vice-President: Th e Rev. Dr. Peter Toon of Tennessee and England Treasurer: Dr. T. Herbert Guerry III of Georgia • Secretary: Mrs. Miriam K. Stauff of Wisconsin MANDATE is published six times a year by the Prayer Book Society, a non-profi t organization serving the Church of God. All gifts to the P.B.S. are tax deductible. Recipients of Mandate are encouraged to send at least $28 each year to maintain the ministry. Editorial and all other correspondence: P.O. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA 928. Phone -800-PBS-928. Postmaster: Please send address changes to the above address. ANDATANDAT Visit the websites of the Society: www.episcopalian.org/pbs928 & www.anglicanmarketplace.com. M PagePage 2 E Refl ections from the Editor’s Desk Th ee RRev’dev’d DDr.r. PeterPeterBritish-ness TToonoon M.M.A.,A., M.M.ThTh ., ., D. D.PhilPhil ( O(Oxon)x on&) Anglican-nessmulti-churchmanshipmulti-churchmanship and mmulti-liturgical.ulti-liturgical. FForor here are certain parallels between a public a very long time, this family has existed in many discussion in Britain and one in the Angli- countries, been composed of many races, spoken can Communion of Churches. many languages and enjoyed worship based upon TBritish-ness Common Prayer with a variety of styles. What is For several decades, those who may be described new in recent times is the arrival of the “multi- as liberal-minded in Britain have been commend- liturgical.” Th is refers to the use of a very large vari- ing what is called the multi-racial, multi-religious, ety of forms of service especially for the Eucharist, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual soci- and contrasts with a previous situation of a very ety. And this “philosophy” is deeply entrenched in limited variety based on the common service in the language & public statements, if not all the the various national and regional editions of Th e actual workings, of government, social services, Book of Common Prayer (662).(662). the courts and education. In contrast, the conser- Th e liberal-minded in the Anglican family of vative-minded have been warning of the loss of churches insist that diversity is as a virtue and British identity and traditional British culture if should be celebrated as such. Further, they say this multi-this-and-that philosophy stays in place. that the family is held together by a basic if mini- Now there are signs of a change of emphasis mum understanding of Anglican-ness. In this lib- from liberal-minded leaders. Without retracting eral approach there is basic Christianity (the Bible their belief in the multi-this-and-that approach, as Witness to the Word of God and the Creeds) they are beginning to emphasise that there must surrounded by Anglican distinctives – e.g., one be a core of British-ness that all accept for this episcopate/one college of bishops which meets modern approach to succeed. In other words, for at the Lambeth Conference every ten years, one the multi-this-and-that approach to work, all must Primates’ Meeting of 38 Presiding Bishops/Arch- accept a common basis and general defi nition of bishops, meeting annually, one See (Canterbury) British identity, and this must govern the way that as the central focus, one Consultative Council the culture, language, religion and way of life is meeting every two or three years, and a common developed. shape/structure [but not common texts] of lit- Why the change in emphasis? Because there urgy. Together with these “instruments of unity,” are within some of the expressions of particular the liturgical distinctive is the new defi nition of culture and religion the signs of the emergence of “Common Prayer” as “Common Shape with variety home-grown international terrorism. A few young of content and details in each local sphere” in con- men born in Britain of immigrant parents now see trast to the old and classic defi nition as “Common Britain as the enemy as they view the nation from Texts in a common shape, used by al in one prov- an extreme “Islamist” position. Th is phenomenon ince/nation.” is worrying and frightening to many, as it is publi- Th e conservative-minded of the Anglican family cised by the media. of churches accept that there is great diversity So there is now the possibility in Britain that both within provinces and between provinces but the liberal-minded and the conservative-minded do not see this as a virtue, but rather as a neutral can begin a fruitful discussion leading to a gen- description of how things are in the providence of eral agreement as to what is British-ness. Th is dis- God. Th ey accept that Anglican distinctives are cussion will cover such things as commitment to added to basic Christianity or, better, are means democracy and the rule of law together with the for the expression of basic Christianity. For them place of the Monarchy, the Parliament, the Courts, the initial and primary distinctives are the classic the historic religious traditions and public holi- Formularies (i.e., the liturgical or doctrinal texts days, and so on.