A Good Gift Received From His Hand - The American Conservative
The Book of Common Prayer does not just epitomize Anglicanism—it points beyond it.
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The Book of Common Prayer does not just epitomize Anglicanism—it points beyond it.
The Book of Common Prayer, although mutable and equivocal, is the measuring-stick of Anglophone piety—and ever shall be, world without end.
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Compassionate God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we desire or deserve; pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those things for which our prayer dares not ask; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.