Th ee Bi-MBi-Monthlyonthly MagMagazineazine ofof thethe PrPrayerayer BBookook SSocietyociety MVolume 27, Number 5 ANDATSeptember / EOctober 2004 IN THIS ISSUE Where can I fi nd a church Th e Creed Sung that uses the 928 BCP? Page 2 Th e 979 Prayer Book, not the 979 BCP! Page 3 as a Psalm: Choice in worship Page 4 A Godly Competition — keeping prayer language in use Pages 5 Th e Eucharistic Lectionary Quicunque Page 6 Th e Creed of Athanasius, origins and text Pages 7 & 8 PECUSA and the Creed of Vult Athanasius Page 9 Th e Holy Trinity and the Creed Page 0 Th e Incarnation and the Creed Page Damnation and the Creed Page 2 Th e Athanasian Creed as a Psalm Pages 3 & 4 Th e PBS Order Form — please photocopy Page 5 Th e Archbishop’s Commission & October 2004 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- church 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 928 Prayer the Continuing Churches would use the editor, Mrs. Jane Nones, 4800 Dupont 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 Delaware Salem Georgetown Wilmington Area St. John’s Church (Anglican Church in Parish of St. James (Anglican Independent St. Mary’s Church (Anglican Catholic America) Communion in the Americas) Church) meets at the Methodist Church 23269 Park Avenue 420 N. Washington Street (at Lea Bou- Salem, NH Georgetown, DE 9947 levard) Mailing Address, Crawford Street Mailing Address: RD#3, Box 285-A- Wilmington, DE 9806 Plymouth, NH 03264 Millsboro, DE 9966 302 428 323 888 536 794 302 854 6547 or 238 7364 Sunday Th e Rev. Dean Steward Sunday 0:00 am Holy Communion 8:00 am Holy Communion Th e Rev. Canon Kenneth W. Gunn-Wal- Concord 0:00 am Holy Communion (st, 3rd, berg, Rector All Saints Mission 4th) meets at the Lutheran Church 0:00 am Morning Prayer (2nd & 5th) Trinity Reformed Episcopal Church Concord, NH Th e Rt. Rev. John W. Gaines, Rector (Reformed Episcopal Church) Mailing Address, Crawford Street Th e Rev. Mark Remillard, Associate Union Grange Hall # (Corner, Ketch & Plymouth, NH 03264 Rector Doe Run) 888 536 794 Hockessin, DE Th e Rev. Dean Steward Mailing Address: 26 Woodshade Drive, Newark, DE 9702 Please write the Rev. Fr. David C. Kennedy, SSC, at 723 Hearth Stone Ave., 302 454 7762 or 368 955 Boynton Beach, FL 33437-2920 if you know of parishes that use the 928 BCP. Sunday Needless to say it will take a long time to list them all! 0:00 am Holy Communion Praise God for that!!! Th e Rev. John Martin Campbell, Rector THE MANDATE September / October 2004 Volume 27 , Number 5 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 e 979 Prayer Book — my attitude to it Th e Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon M.A., M.Th ., D.Phil (Oxon) ing society and culture. So, it seems to me, the title eople who have the time and inclination of the new Prayer Book was a major innovation, to read my little tracts and books will have a novel way of using an hallowed and distinctive noticed that consistently over the years title in order to make easy the speedy entrance of PI have referred to the offi cial Prayer Book of the innovation and change of doctrine. And as such it Episcopal Church, USA, as “the 979 Prayer Book.” worked as bishops took up the cause and pressed Th is is a reasonable title to use and it is used by me its use upon all dioceses of the Church. for one basic reason — in order to To say that its title is the wrong avoid using the offi cial title as given one isis not toto saysay tthathat ttherehere araree not to it by the General Convention of useful,useful, eveneven good,good, thingsthings in thethe the Episcopal Church in Minneap- 979979 Book.Book. I gladlygladly acceptaccept thatthat by olis 979 which was “Th e Book of it,it, in thethe handshands of faithfulfaithful priestspriests Common Prayer….” over thethe years,years, manymany havehave beenbeen Why do I seek to avoid calling blessedblessed by God.God. AtAt thethe same time, this Book by its offi cial title? Th e mischiefmischief hashas beenbeen done by thethe useuse answer is simple. I cannot in con- of a falsefalse title.title. science or historical judgment see Th us, in summary, my posi- it as “Th e Book of Common Prayer.” tion in termsterms of mymy relationrelation toto thethe It is most certainly a Prayer Book, PrayerPrayer BooksBooks of thethe ECUSAECUSA isis toto but to my eyes it is not “Th e BCP.” If regardregard thethe lastlast editionedition of thethe classicclassic we actually take time to examine its BookBook of CommonCommon Prayer,Prayer, the edi- internal contents which are char- tion of 928, as the true Formulary acterized by variety and choice, we of thethe AnglicanAnglican WayWay in AmericaAmerica see very clearly and quickly that they belong to the and then to see the 979 Book as the equivalent new class of Prayer Books which were produced of the ASB (980) of the Church of England and from the early 970s onwards in the western/ the BAS (985) of the Anglican Church of Canada northern parts of the Anglican Communion, after (and of others similar ones from Australia, South the Lambeth Conference gave its moral backing Africa. Wales, Ireland etc). So for me to say “the to this enterprise of experimental liturgy. Th ese 979 Prayer Book” is to see it as an offi cial alterna- new Books were intended to provide, alternative tive to the classic BCP and also under the general forms of public services in “contemporary lan- doctrinal standard of the historic editions in the guage” alongside the received, historical, Book of USA of the classic BCP — that is those of 662, Common Prayer. Th us they usually contained the 789, 892 & 928. word “alternative” in their titles — e.g., An Alter- When the new Prayer Book (or perhaps books native Service Book (England 980). and web sites of liturgical resources) of the ECUSA Th erefore, as a historian of doctrine and of appears later in this decade, then I shall have to re- forms of Anglican worship, I see that the 979 evaluate my position; but I expect that I shall regard book was given the wrong title. It should have been the 979 Book as conservative in comparison with something like, An American Prayer Book (979) the innovatory content of what will replace it by or A Book of Alternative Services (979). When I 200! In and of itself the 979 Book was innovatory enquire why it has the wrong title, I fi nd a long in 979 but such have been the changes within the and involved story about the ecclesiastical politics ECUSA towards heresy and immorality that it is operative in the Episcopal Church from the 960s now a conservative bedrock for some.