This is not to say that the Episcopal Church is beyond redemption. Many faithful clergy and laypeople are praying for deliverance from the false shepherds. Many are working hard to salvage something from the wreckage. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in consultation with other Anglican primates, suggests that the Episcopal Church will no longer be a member of the worldwide Communion ... .I'd be interested in hearing from Orthodox familiar with the US Anglican 1928 BCP on the following:
When the Episcopal Church established the 1979 prayer book for regular use in the parishes, it accomplished a major overhaul of the historic Anglican way of prayer, a way of prayer that was not unlike the Orthodox way of prayer. ...Finally, I have attempted to discern the questions and answers above. Anything "Q>" or "A>" is my addition, and all errors are mine own. --sionnsar]
The historic Book of Common Prayer is something most Orthodox would feel fairly comfortable with because Thomas Cranmer’s liturgy is rooted deeply in the liturgy of St. Basil the Great.
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"I'd be interested in hearing from Orthodox familiar with the US Anglican 1928 BCP on the following:
When the Episcopal Church established the 1979 prayer book for regular use in the parishes, it accomplished a major overhaul of the historic Anglican way of prayer, a way of prayer that was not unlike the Orthodox way of prayer. ...
The historic Book of Common Prayer is something most Orthodox would feel fairly comfortable with because Thomas Cranmer’s liturgy is rooted deeply in the liturgy of St. Basil the Great."
My familiarity with the 1928 BCP is limited to serving as a "fill in" altarboy for weekday evening liturgies at the Episcopal parish in the town I went to college at back in 1971. As I recall it, it far more similarities to the Tridentine Roman Mass than to the Divine Liturgy of +Basil the Great. That said, since that time I have read the rubrics of the pre-Schism Sarum Liturgy which certainly shows Eastern roots and the 1928 BCP liturgy is really quite like the Sarum liturgy. There is a very small group in the Antiochian Church here in the States which calls itself Western Rite Orthodoxy. They use a Liturgy modeled after the Anglican liturgy set forth in the 1892 BCP but with some changes to conform to Orthodox theology. The idea came from +Tikhon who put together the Liturgy for Western Christians interested in Orthodoxy. It has never gained much currency and is slowly dying out at least here. It has never made any headway among "cradle" Orthodox in the West and in fact the idea of it has been condemned by many Orthodox writers.
My admittedly ill informed take on this women's comment as quoted is that she is quite wrong about Orthodox Christians finding the 1928 BCP liturgy "comfortable", though I do not doubt that the Divine Liturgy of +Basil the Great lurks somewhere in its distant liturgical lineage.