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"An exclusive emphasis on Advent as a season of preparation risks putting human endeavor in the spotlight for all four weeks of the season. All the Advent preparation in the world would not be enough unless God were favorably disposed to us in the first place." --Fleming Rutledge

Advent is on the way--

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Advent is coming! The epistles and gospels in the classic Book of Common Prayer treat Advent as its own season, not just a preparation for Christmas.

"As Trinitytide draws to a close, around the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, the epistles begin to strike a note of eschatological anticipation." -- "How to Use the Book of Common Prayer"

In many Anglican calendars, today is the feast day of Richard Hooker. Here are four prayers for the commemoration of a saint from the Appendix of Additional Prayers in the 1662 International Edition:

Happy All Saints' Day!

The Litany is a gem of the Anglican tradition, and it was the first English liturgy authorized by the Church of England. Archbishop Cranmer's sources were Latin, Greek, English, and German. Here is the Litany as printed in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition:

Two prayers for Trinitytide:

It's Wednesday, so pray the Litany--

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From the Book of Common Prayer, a prayer that is always in season:

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"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us." As Fleming Rutledge put it, “Understanding Sin requires us to recognize its power lodged in ourselves” (Crucifixion 197).

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In the 1662 BCP lectionary, the first lesson this morning was Joel 2. A Book of Common Prayer lectionary thread— Joel 2 is one of the most read OT passages in the 1662 lectionary.

Peter Hitchens on looking into the Book of Common Prayer: But persist even further, past the Catechism and the Forms of Prayer to Be Used at Sea ("O Almighty God, Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand . . .")

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Today the Church commemorates St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. "Behold, in order that we may love God, we have exhortation. Could we love Him, unless He first loved us? If we were slow to love, let us not be slow to love in return."

From the Litany:

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