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Julielai Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Book of Common Prayer

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00I was reading a dummy's guide to English history, and it mentions this: 02br
00"In 1549 the Act of Uniformity made Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer compulsory in all churches and abolished the Latin Mass." 02br
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00Can anybody shed light on this little prayer book? Was that the first prayer book ever? What sort of prayers were in it? 02br
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0 Hi yet again, 02br 00The Book of Common Prayer is more than a little prayer book. It set out the basic ideas and beliefs on which the Anglican Church, in England and later in other countries, was built. It was a major reason that Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was later convicted of heresy by the Catholic Queen Mary and burned alive.

— Clive

  • 0 Hi yet again, 02br 00The Book of Common Prayer is more than a little prayer book.
  • It set out the basic ideas and beliefs on which the Anglican Church, in England and later in other countries, was built.
  • It was a major reason that Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was later convicted of heresy by the Catholic Queen Mary and burned alive.
  • In other words, he died for it.
  • 02br 02br 00It included, for example, the words that are basically still used today in the Church of England to marry two people 02br 00If you search the Net, you will find a lot of information about this.
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0 Hi yet again, 02br
00The Book of Common Prayer is more than a little prayer book. It set out the basic ideas and beliefs on which the Anglican Church, in England and later in other countries, was built. It was a major reason that Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was later convicted of heresy by the Catholic Queen Mary and burned alive. In other words, he died for it. 02br
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0 Thanks again. 02br
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00I found a site with the original text. Found the matrimony chapter too! Like you said, it contains the words priests still use today to marry people. 02br
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00Ah...****** Mary. (now why would we have a drink named after such a person?) 02br
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0 because she kept killing people! 0-
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0 I agree, Abbie. She was religiously intolerant, but why name a drink after her? The drink looks ****** enough, but I guess I don't get the Mary part. 02br
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00Ah well, what do I care? I don't even drink.050010id2
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0 Regretably when England decided to break away from Rome because Henry the 8th wanted numerous wives bloodshed followed. Roman Catholics were massacred then Protestants and so it went on with one side butchering the other. Thank *** common sense now prevails and ecumenisim has brought dialogue and old prejudices have disappeared. Few fundamentalists around. Arguably it could either be Mary Tudo
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0 I reckon it was Mary Tudor. Mary of Scots would need something explosive! 0-
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0 Hi David and Abbie, 02br
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00I suddenly have a thought. This ****** Mary is sour, I take it? Does that have something to do with Mary Tudor's disposition? [:^)] 0-
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0 It has to do with the general disposition of those times. Mary for one. Long gone and forgotten. Hopefully we move on to more balanced times. This is to do with what happened five hundred years ago. If you are keen on history read the period between Henry V111 and Elizabeth the first. 0-
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0 Nice thought, Julie! [:^)] 0-
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0 Thanks David and Abbie! 0-
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