THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - Anglican Church of Canada

1 THE book OF COMMON PRAYER 1962 Canada THE book OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE Church ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE Anglican Church OF Canada TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER AS IT IS APPOINTED TO BE SAID OR SUNG IN CHURCHES AND THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING ORDAINING AND CONSECRATING OF BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS TORONTO Anglican book CENTRE Small Pica Issued by the Authority of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada 1962 The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada 1962 Reprinted and bound in Canada by Best book Manufacturers, 1997 v THE CONTENTS OF THIS book 1 The Preface.

2 Page vii 2 Solemn Declaration .. viii 3 The Calendar .. ix 4 Days of Fasting, Abstinence, and Solemn PRAYER . xiii 5 A Table of Moveable Feasts .. xiv 6 Tables of Lessons .. xvi 7 Tables of Proper Psalms .. xlviii 8 The Order for Morning PRAYER .. 1 9 Prayers at Mid-day .. 16 10 The Order for Evening PRAYER .. 17 11 Additional Canticles .. 25 12 The Litany .. 30 13 Prayers and Thanksgivings .. 37 14 A Bidding PRAYER .

3 62 15 The Order of the Ministration of the Holy Communion .. 67 16 The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels .. 94 17 The Psalter .. 331 18 The Ministration of Holy Baptism .. 522 19 The Catechism .. 544 20 The Order for Confirmation .. 556 21 A Table of Kindred and Affinity .. 562 22 The Solemnization of Matrimony .. 563 23 The Thanksgiving after Child-birth .. 573 24 The Ministry to the Sick .. 576 25 The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

4 591 vi CONTENTS 26 A Penitential Service .. page 611 27 Services on Special Occasions .. 616 28 Harvest Thanksgiving .. 617 29 An Order of Service for Young People .. 622 30 Forms of PRAYER to be used at Sea .. 628 31 The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons . 637 32 Form of Institution and Induction .. 668 33 Office for Laying the Foundation Stone of a Church or Chapel .. 677 34 Form of Consecration of a Church or Chapel.

5 681 35 Form of Consecration of a Church -yard .. 692 36 The Creed of St Athanasius .. 695 37 Articles of Religion .. 698 38 Historical Prefaces .. 715 39 An Order for Compline .. 722 40 Family PRAYER .. 728 vii THE PREFACE TO THE CANADIAN REVISION OF 1918 ALTERED IN 1959 HE book of COMMON PRAYER is a priceless possession of our Church . By its intrinsic merits, as a book designed for the reverent and seemly worship of Almighty God, it has en- deared itself to generation after generation of devout Christians throughout the world.

6 None would desire or advocate any change therein which would impair or lessen this deep-seated affection. But through the lapse of some three hundred years many changes have taken place in the life of the Church and in its outlook upon the world. In the judgement of the General Synod of 1911 these changes warranted adaptation and enrichment of the book in order that it might meet more fully the needs of the Church in this land. Yet the revisers of some forty years ago bequeathed to their successors an uncompleted task.

7 They were agreed that no major alterations should be made at that time to the Service of Holy Communion. Any changes which were made elsewhere in the book were designed to render the Services more readily understood by the people, or to provide such additional Services as were needed in the growing life of the Church . By order of the General Synod Of 1943 the work of revision was taken up again. In the years of preparation and study, the principles which governed those who first gave to the Church its book of COMMON PRAYER have been constantly borne in mind.

8 The aim throughout has been to set forth an order which the people may use with under-standing and which is agreeable with Holy Scripture and with the usage of the primitive Church . And always there has been the understanding that no altera- tions should be made which would involve or imply any change of doctrine of the Church as set forth in the book of COMMON PRAYER , or any other alteration not in accord with the 27th Resolution of the Lambeth Conference of 1908 and the 78th Resolution of the Lambeth Conference Of 1948.

9 When the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Church in Canada assembled for the first General Synod in 1893, they made a Solemn Declaration of the faith in which they met together. It is in that faith that this book of COMMON PRAYER is offered to the Church , with the hope that those who use it may become more truly what they already are: the People of God, that New Creation in Christ which finds its joy in adoration of the Creator and Redeemer of all. Tviii SOLEMN DECLARATION 1893 N the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

10 Amen. WE, the Bishops, together with the Delegates from the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada , now assembled in the first General Synod, hereby make the following Solemn Declaration: WE declare this Church to be, and desire that it shall con- tinue, in full communion with the Church of England throughout the world, as an integral portion of the One Body of Christ composed of Churches which, united under the One Divine Head and in the fellowship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church , hold the One Faith revealed in Holy Writ.