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I'm CofE and my parish church has a good relationship with the Methodist Chapel in our village. We occasionally hold joint services. For the most part these are non Eucharistic services but a couple of years ago we were invited to an evening service which turned out to be a Communion service. I...

In the CofE worship and doctrine have always been closely linked. Canon A5 declares that the doctrine of the CofE is 'grounded in Holy Scriptures...in particular such doctrine is to be found in the 39 Articles...the BCP and the Ordinal'. For over 350 years now the 1662 BCP has been at the...

I've never used Carols for metrical settings of the Ordinary but sometimes use well known hymn tunes. Kyrie - Carol: Infant holy, infant lowly Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy on your people now, we pray Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, for your favour, Christ we pray Lord have mercy...

Shane, you may be interested in this site: Introduction | Experience of Worship There are a few pics of the Hampton Court Mass here: Sarum Mass at Hampton Court In the late 1980's the Prayer Book Society produced an abridged version of the Sarum Use Mass rendered in Tudor English. It was...

During Advent we use violet vestments and altar frontals and don't have any flower arrangements. Liturgically we omit the Gloria in excelsis Deo and sing lots of hymns appropriate to the season. We have an Advent wreath with candles which are successively lit each Sunday. Our church has a custom...

I rather like Granchester based on the novels by James Runcie, son of ++Robert Runcie. Call the Midwife has a group of Anglican Sisters who are quite often shown singing Compline. Some of the Marple stories are quite churchy. I love the PCC meeting scenes in Dibley So true to life...or is that...

We commemorate All Saints and All Souls. For All Souls the church is decorated with white lilies and the names of the departed are written on little cards placed by the flowers. Remembrance Sunday will be a biggie: we join forces with the Methodist/United Reformed and alternate venues. This...

The arrangement of the Epistles and Gospels in the Prayer Book is nearly the same as the Sarum Missal. As such, the Christian Year is marked by two main divisions: 1) From Advent to Trinity during which we commemorate the main events of Our Lord's life on earth from His Incarnation to His...

I use Daily Prayer from Common Worship (CofE) and its associated Lectionary. I like its day to day and seasonal variation. Whilst I have an affection for the majestic language of the 1662 BCP Office, I find it lacking in day to day and seasonal variation, although the proposed 1928 BCP makes...

Yes. I remember the Litany of Saints......seemed to go on forever! The Rector of that particular church I attended was very partial to the English Missal. It was very Anglo-Catholic but has since gone down the candle a long way. I'm sure the former Rector would be horrified. Thanks for the welcome.

Hi Gordon Personally I believe that the invocation of Saints can simply refer to us asking for their intercession but Anglicans interpret the 39 Articles in different ways. ++Cranmer (and other Bishops) in 'The Institution of a Christian Man' (a.k.a. 'The Bishop's Book') of 1537 differentiates...

Invocation of Saints is not found in any authorised Church of England liturgies (BCP1662/Common Worship 2000). Most of the Collects for Sundays that we find in the Book of Common Prayer have come down from old Sacramentaries such as the Leonine, Gelasian and Gregorian Sacramentaries which date...