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I suppose that if one wants to study English, the BCP is rather better than some of the insipid stuff that is included in syllabuses today. But where the BCP is spiritually sound, it takes its lead from the Bible, which is a much more reliable source when spiritual education and advance are required. And it is not always sound. Beware the siren voices that beguile with eloquence and fine-sounding phrases. They will not get you to heaven.As an Englishman, raised in the Church of England, I am one who cherishes Sir Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and I would agree, it is a truly wonderful prayer book with prose and eloquence second to none. I would encourage all believers at least to familarize themselves with it, if not to study it in depth.
I suppose that if one wants to study English, the BCP is rather better than some of the insipid stuff that is included in syllabuses today. But where the BCP is spiritually sound, it takes its lead from the Bible.... eloquence and fine-sounding phrases. They will not get you to heaven.
the BCP. It is undeniably beautiful
A much more contentious view, as history has proved. It is true that many found the BCP a great relief after the heresies, as perceived, of Rome, but simultaneously and subsequently many 'moved on', as the modern parlance has it.and scriptural
"They will put you out of the places of worship. The time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is helping God" (John 16:2, NLV).
Don't forget the "war" over in the East between Italy [RCC] and Greece [Orthodoxs]It seems it's war in South America between Catholics and Non-Catholics.
Protestants must ignore or distort much of the bible because it supports Catholicism.
Examples:
John 6
48</SPAN>I am the bread of life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."
1 Cor 11
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.
Jesus prays for his disciples:
8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.
Since 1/3 or so of all Protestants are Lutherans and you can add 100 million Anglicans to that total, it is probable that only a MINORITY of Protestants are memorialists.
"Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction." Mt 7:13[/size]
Exactly.
Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, nothing is undeniably beautiful. The BCP is not even comprehensible to many.
Not to you, apparently. Everyone in my church understands it just fine
[/color][/b]Perhaps they do, but they are apparently not too fussy about the eighth commandment.
Hmm. How wide are the gates to the Vatican?"Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction." Mt 7:13
When faced with the choice of taking the cross into account in all situations, of working out one's faith in fear and trembling, or saying that a piece of bread becomes God, nearly all of humanity will go for the crazy but easy option. So the gates of the Vatican are almost as wide as humanity.Hmm. How wide are the gates to the Vatican?
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