Posted on 12/17/2005 12:58:52 PM PST by miketheprof
You may remember that when I visited Canterbury Cathedral, I was repelled by the liturgy there – Advent collects omitted, the Lord’s Prayer so tampered with I couldn’t recite it even while looking at the words in front of me, and more.
Well, as noted over on titusonenine, I’m not the only one appalled by the state of the liturgy in England. I unfortunately missed it while I was there, but the Telegraph ran a column denouncing the Church of England’s wholesale tossing of the Book of Common Prayer.
May I remind the reader that the 1662 BCP is still the official prayer book of the Church of England. Well, Canterbury sure doesn’t act like it. And it’s far from alone.
Now I’ll try to be charitable and say replacing the BCP with Common Worship is probably well meaning. One motive is surely to be more inclusive and make the liturgy more accessible to people.
But the effect is the opposite. It’s divisive. It divides the generations. Older folks used to the real BCP (and traditionalists like myself) fumble along in modern liturgy services....
(Excerpt) Read more at wannabeanglican.blogspot.com ...
A book with prayers in it, like these.
Should not prayer be lead by the Holy Spirit and the situation at hand.
No, it shouldn't. Our Lord Jesus himself taught his disciples a pre-formulated prayer:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
" How can one pre-write a prayer?"
Psalms?
"Pretty sure Psalms are poetry and praise by David, not prayers."
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=prayer&version1=9&searchtype=all&spanbegin=23&spanend=23
Do you not use the Psalms in your prayer? You might like it.
It is not necessary for prayer to be extemporaneous for the holy Spirit to be involved. The Church is herself guided by the holy Spirit in her formulations, as Pope Pius XII says:
The more recent liturgical rites likewise deserve reverence and respect. They, too, owe their inspiration to the Holy Spirit, who assists the Church in every age even to the consummation of the world. They are equally the resources used by the majestic Spouse of Jesus Christ to promote and procure the sanctity of man. (Encyclical on the Sacred Liturgy, 61)
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