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Tag: Book of Common Prayer

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Alone in a Pew

If you are going to go to church, go alone and go when it is empty.

Book of Common Prayer, Contemplation, Meditation, Prayer
Ripple Church, Nr Deal

Matins in a country church

In a lifelong search for meaning, I have found little to compare with matins in an English country church.

Book of Common Prayer, Church of England, Matins
By the rivers of Babylon, painting by Gebhard Fugel, c. 1920

Psalm 137: Happy the one who takes your little ones, and dashes them against the rock.

Someone in Canterbury Cathedral (the Dean perhaps?) decided that Verse 9 was going a little far .

Book of Common Prayer, Church of England, Jihad, Psalms, Psalter, Violence, War
Norman Church at Great Mongeham

Peace which the World Cannot Give?

Can we find peace in this world despite what the Book of Common Prayer says? 

Book of Common Prayer, Depression, Happiness, Mood, Peace
Title page of the 1662 Prayer Book, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

The Book of Common Prayer

You do not have to be a Christian to immerse yourself in the timeless reflections of the Book of Common Prayer.

Book of Common Prayer

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